r>80 Lxxxvi. LOGANiACE^ (baker). \^Strychnos, 



nCozamb. Blst. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique; between Mussoril 

 and Cabc'ceira, Carvalho. 



(ii^. S. gracillima, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 573. An erect 

 shrub, with slender branchlets and copious hooked spines from the 

 nodes. Leaves ovate or oblong, acute, cuneate at the base, glabrous, 1 in. 

 long, triplinerved from the base ; lateral veins short; petiole very short. 

 Cymes dense, compressed, terminal ; peduncle and pedicels short. Calyx 

 lin. long; tube very short; lobes 5, lanceolate. Bud greenish, globose ; 

 corolla-tube very short ; segments ovate. Fruit globose, 2 in. in diam. ; 

 pericarp woody. Seeds many, h in. long. 



Xrile Iiacd. Jur : near Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1344 ; between Dimo and 

 Axoni, Schweinfurth, 1573 ! 



GO. S. Volkensii, Gilg in Engl. EJi. Ost-Afr. C. 311. A 

 tree 3U-40 ft. high ; branchlets armed with curved pungent spines at 

 the nodes. Leaves oblong or oblong-ovate, lJ-2 in. long by half as 

 broad, glabrous, narrow^ed gradually to the base, subacute, 5-nerved ; 

 petiole ^-J as long as the blade. Cymes lax, many-flowered, from the 

 tip of the branchlets ; bracts minute, triangular, acute. Sepals ovate, 

 acuminate, less than half as long as the corolla. Corolla ^ in. long ; lobes 

 ovate, rather longer than the campanulate tube. Fruit shaped like an 

 orange, with edible pulp. — Gilg in Xotizbl. Kcinigl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, i. 

 7G ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 702. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Gohmgo Alto ; foi'ests at the base of Alto Queta, 

 Wehcil-sch, 4709, and at Dalatanda, Welwitsch, 4775. 



HZozamb. I>ist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Tanga, Hoist, 2095 ! 

 Volkens-; 103, Ainboni, Hoist, 2670! 



70. S. Miniungansamba, Gilg in Notizhl. Kbnigl. Bot. Gart. 

 Berlin, i. 77. An erect shrub, with recurved axillary spines. Leaves 

 obovate, about 1 in. long, rounded at the apex, narrowed to the base, 

 glabrous, 5-nerved from the base ; petiole \ in. long. Flowers in 

 racemes at the apex of the branchlets. Sepals linear, ciliolate, ^-J 

 in. long. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx ; tube urceolate ; 

 lobes 5, ovate, less than half as long as the tube. Fruit unknown. 



XiO-wer Guinea. Angola : Kahingula, Buchner, 617. 



71. S. spinosa, Lam. III. ii. 38. A low tree; branchlets 

 horizontal, slender, virgate, armed with pungent spines from the nodes. 

 Leaves obovate or suborbicular, obtuse or subacute, cuneate at the 

 base, 2-1) in. long, subcoriaceous, 5-nerved from near the base, glabrous ; 

 petiole very short. Cymes short, dense, terminal, very compound ; 

 peduncles and short pedicels pubescent.' Calyx J in. long ; tube very 

 shoi^t ; segments linear. Corolla greenish, not longer than the calyx ; 

 tube short, campanulate ; lobes usually 5, ovate. Fruit the size and 

 colour of an orange ; pericarp coriaceous ; pulp abundant, edible ; seeds 

 large. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 702. aS'. Vuntac, Bojer, Hort. 

 Maur. 205. S. Zokua, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 53. >S. laxa,. 



