Strychnos.] LIII. LOCANIACEJE. 317 



Order LIII. LOGANIACE-flE. 



Trees, shrubs, often climbing, or herbs. Leaves opposite, generally 

 connected by interpetiolar stipules or by a raised line. Flowers regular, 

 4-5-merous. Corolla hypogynous, regular or irregular. Stamens epipeta- 

 lous, usually alternating with the corolla-segments. Ovary free, 2-celied ; 

 style simple, stigma often 2-lobed. Seeds albuminous. Wight 111. ii. 

 170 ; Bentham in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 52. 



Fruit indehiscent, with a shell-like rind ; flowers pentamerous, 



corolla valvate in bud 1 . Strychnos. 



Fruit a capsule, dehiscent septicidally ; flowers tetramerous, cor- 

 olla imbricate in bud ....... 2. Buddleia. 



1. STRYCHNOS, Linn. 



Trees or climbing shrubs, with entire 3- 5 -nerved leaves. Flowers 

 pentamerous, bisexual. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, lobes valvate. 

 Stamens inserted in the throat, filaments short. Style filiform, stigma 

 capitate, or indistinctly 2-lobed; ovules numerous, placentas fleshy, 

 adnate to both sides of the dissepiment. Fruit a berry with a shell-like 

 rind, the seeds large, compressed, embedded in a fleshy pulp. Embryo 

 short straight eccentric, in a cartilaginous albumen. 



Corolla campanulate, throat bearded ; fruit black when ripe, | 



in. diam., 1 -seeded ........ 1. S. potatorum. 



Corolla- tube cylindric, many times longer than calyx ; fruit 



orange when ripe, 3-4 in. diam., many-seeded . . 2. S. Nttx-vomica. 



1. S. potatorum, Linn. fil. Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 5 ; Fl. Ind. i. 576 ; 

 Wight 111. t. 156. The clearing-nut tree. Sans. Kataka. Vern. Nermali, 

 7iirmali, nel-mal. 



A middle-sized tree, evergreen, wholly glabrous ; trunk often irregu- 

 larly fluted. Leaves coriaceous, ovate or rotund ate, subsessile, or very 

 shortly petiolate, 2-3 in. long. Flowers white, fragrant, in short peduncu- 

 late glabrous cymes, on the previous year's wood, at the base of this year's 

 branchlets. Corolla-tube campanulate, with tufts of white hair at the 

 base of the segments between the stamens. Style cylindric, from a coni- 

 cal base, stigma indistinctly 2-lobed. Berry subglobose, black when ripe, 

 1 -seeded, f in. diam. Seeds compressed, nearly circular. 



South India, Bengal, Behar, Bijoragogurh forests, and probably elsewhere in 

 the Centr. Prov. Bark dark-coloured, deeply cracked. Fl. H.S. Wood dur- 

 able, hard and close-grained. Medullary rays numerous, whitish in darker 

 tissue. Pores in large, irregularly ramified patches of whitish tissue. Pulp of 

 the fruit eaten. The ripe seeds are used to clear muddy w r ater. 



2. S. Nux- vomica, Linn. ; Roxb. Cor. PL t. 4 ; Fl. Ind. i. 575 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 243; Benth. 1. c. 103. Yern. Kuchla, kojra; Khabaung, 

 Burm. 



A small, slow-growing, evergreen, glabrous tree. Leaves ovate or rotun- 

 date, coriaceous, shining, blade 4-5 in., petiole J in. long. Flowers green- 

 ish white, on terminal pubescent pedunculate, corymbose cymes. Corolla- 



