Strycknos.] lxxxvi. loganiace.e (baker). 537 



Solered. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 554. Brehmia sjnnosa, Harv. ; A. DC. 

 Prod. ix. 18 ; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 285. 



TTpper Guinea. Senej^ainbia, Heudelot, 813 ! French Guinea : banks of the 

 River Nij^er at Fanina, 3200 ft., iScoft-EIliot, 5384 ! Lagos: Ado Ischu, Rowland, 

 5 ! Niger Territory : Xupe, Barter, 1140 ! 



irile Iiand. Fazokl, CienkotosJcy. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Loandn, Welwiisch, 4763 ! 4764, 4767, 6019 ! 

 (iolungo Alto, Wehcitsch, 4768 ! 4770, 4771 ! 477iJ ; Ainbnc-a, Welwitsch, 4773. 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Rovuma Ray, Kirk ! Portnguesc 

 East Africa : Zambesi Delta; Kongone Wwer, Kirk I bank of the River Luabo, 

 Kirk, 44! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mbame Village, Kirk ! Blantyre, 

 £uchana7i, S4;l Zomba and vicinity, 2800-35CO ft., Whyte ! and without precise 

 locality, Buchanan, 214 ! 



Also in South Africa, Madagascar and the Seychelles. 



Var. puhescens. Baker. Leaves pubescent, especially beneath. 



Upper Guinea. French- Guinea : near Moria on the River Scarcies, Scott- 

 Elliot, 4801 ! Xiger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1705 ! 



IVIozauib. I>ist. British Central Afiica: Nyasaland; Mount Sochi, 3500 ft.. 

 Kirk, 129 ! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 47 ! 



This variety much resembles S. cocculoides, Baker. 



72. S. exnarginata, Baker. An erect shrub ; branchlets very 

 slender, pubescent, with pungent hooked spines from the nodes. 

 Leaves obovate, emarginate, with a small mucro from the sinus, glossy, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous, 1-2 in. long, strongly 5-nerved from the base. 

 Cymes dense, terminal, very compound ; peduncle and very short 

 pedicels pubescent. Calyx \ in. long; tube very short; segments 5, 

 lanceolate. Corolla not seen. Fruit globose, 2 in. in diam. ; pericarp 

 thick, rigid ; pulp copious ; seeds large. 



Wile Ziand. Jur: Jnr Gliattas, Schweinfnrth, 1396! 



Itnperfectly knoivn sj^ecies. 



7?». S. Scheffleri, Gihj in XotizhJ. K'uniyl. Bot. Cart. Berlin, iii. 

 84 {iimne only). 



ZMCozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Eastern Usambara, Schcjjfer. 



7. ANTHOCLEISTA, Afzel.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 705. 



Calyx 4-partite; lobes coriaceous, mueh imbricate, decussate. 

 Corolla-tube funnel-shaped; lobes 12-lG, linear-oblong or oblong, 

 much imbricate, contorted. Stamens as many as the corolla- lobes ; 

 filaments united into a short cup ; anthers linear-erect. Ovary in.serted 

 on a fleshy disk, spuriously 4-celled ; style liliform, usually curved ; 

 stigma capitate, oblong ; ovules very numerous. Berry globose or 

 oblong ; pericarp becoming coriaceous. Seeds numerous, minute, 

 embedded in the pulpy placentas ; testa thin ; albumen cartilaginous ; 

 embryo straight. — Erect trees or scandent shrubs. Leaves obovate- 



