Strychnos.} LOGANIACE, 703 
globose or corymbose, axillary or in a thyrsoid, terminal panicle. 
Sepals connate in a campanulate, 4-toothed, or + fid calyx. Petals 
4, connate in an urceolate corolla; lobes imbricate in bud. 
Stamens 4, adnate to corolla-tube ; ; anthers subsessile, ovate or 
ll 
oblong, base cordate or 2-lobed; cells parallel. Carpels connate 
in a 2-celled ovary ; ovules paps in each loculus; style simple, 
linear, often curved, clavate stigma terminal or decurrent on two 
sides. Fruit a septicidally 2. valved cays the valves entire or 
2-fid. Seeds Gai oblong or fusiform; testa usually lax or 
expanded in a wing or tail; albumen shy: embryo straight. 
1275, Boca astatica Lour.; F. B. I. iv. 82; 2 
Chota Nagpur; N. Bets: Gitease, 
A shrub, 6-15 feet high. Beng. Neemda, bad-bhota. 
594. Fagrea Thunb. 
Trees or shrubs, often epiphytic, sometimes scandent; leaves 
opposite, entire ; oj periet dilated at the base or united by a se 
she: ath. Flor 
plete or incomplete cell ; ; style filiform; stigma capitate. Fruita 
1-2-celled berry, many-seeded. Seeds embedded in pulp; testa 
crustaceous ; albumen horny; embryo small, straight. 
76. FaGR#A OBOVATA Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 83; E. D. F. 27. 
Chittagon 
A small tree or large shrub. 
5. Strychnos Linn. 
Scandent shrubs ee short tendrils, or trees; leaves opposite, 
Usually 3-5-nerved; in scandent species short, axillary tendrils are 
Produced in some of the axils, the adjacent leaf being then often 
“uppressed ; in the subterminal axils often both tendrils developed, 
when usually both adjacent leaves and apex of branch are sup- . : 
