Strychnos.] Liii. LOGANIACE^! 317 



Order LIII. LOGANIACEiE. 



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

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

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

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

 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 ]. 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 oampanulate, throat bearded ; fruit black when ripe, | 



in. diam., 1 -seeded 1. fir. potatorwm. 



CoroUa-tube oylindric, many times longer than calyx ; fruit 



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



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

 Wight lU. t. 156. — The dearing-nui tree. Sans. Katalca. Vern. Nermali, 

 niiTnali, nel-mal. 



A middle - sized tree, evergreen, whoUy 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. Corollartube oampanulate, 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, | in. diam. Seeds compressed, nearly circular. 



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

 the Centr. Prov. Bark dark-coloured, deeply cracked. PI. 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 water. 



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

 Fl. Sylv. t. 243; Benth. 1. c. 103. — Vern. Kuchla, kajra; Khdbaung, 

 Burm. 



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

 date, coriaceous, shitiing, blade 4-5 in., petiole | in. long. Flowers green- 

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



