1024 LXXXI. LOGANIACE^. [Stnjchnos. 



simple, with a capitate or obscurely 2-lobed stigma. Fruit a globular indehiscent 

 berry, with the rind usually hard. Seeds imbedded in pulp, more or less com- 

 pressed, and often reduced to one or two in each fruit. — Shrubs trees or woody 

 climbers. Leaves opposite, 3-nerved or 6-nerved at the base, with transverse 

 reticulate veinlets, often smooth and shining. In the climbing species there are 

 usually spirally recurved hooks in one of the axils (not observed in any Australian 

 specimens), in which case the subtending leaf is usually reduced to a small bract, 

 whilst the opposite leaf remains normal. Flowers in ancillary or terminal cymes 

 clusters or panicles. 



The genus is dispersed over the tropical regions of the New and the Old World. The 

 Australian species Ve endemic, unless one of them proves to be really a variety rnly of a widely 

 spread south Asiatic one. 



Flowers in corymbose cymes. Corolla-tube narrow, twice as long as the 

 lobes 1. S. lueida. 



Flowers in thyrsoid panicles. Corolla-tube exceedingly short, the lob'es 

 longer 2. S. psilosperma. 



A large climber, furnished with curved tendrils. Flowers in racemose 

 panicles. Fruit globose, lin. diameter 3. S. Bancroftiana. 



1. S. lucida (upper side of leaf glossy), It. Br. Prod. 469 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 369. An erect, divaricately-branched shrub, often tall, • glabrous except the 

 minutely pubescent inflorescence. Leaves ovate, obtuse, obtusely acuminate or 

 almost acute, 3 or 5-nerved, thinly coriaceous, shining above, more or less 

 glaucous underneath, IJ to 3in. long, contracted into a very short petiole. 

 Flowers 5-merous, in corymbose trichotomous cymes, shortly pedunculate above 

 the last pair of leaves. Calyx -lobes scarcely above ^ line long, ciliolate. Corolla- 

 tube cylindrical, about 8 lines long, very slightly hairy inside ; lobes narrow, 

 about 1\ line long. Anthers almost sessile in the throat. Ovary glabrous, 

 with numerous ovules in each cell ; style either much shorter than the corolla- 

 tube with a peltate stigma or nearly as long as the whole corolla with a smaller 

 stigma. Berry globular, orange-brown, 1 to l^in. diameter. Seeds few, flat, 

 orbicular, about 5 lines diameter ; testa membranous, densely silky-hairy ; 

 albumen cartilaginous, splitting into 2 halves ; cotyledons broadly ovate, about 

 1 line long ; radicle short, at one edge of the seed. — DC. Prod. ix. 16. 



Hab.- Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Walsh Range, R. C. Bnrton ; Thursday 

 Island, E. Cowley. 



The species is also in Timor, if S. ligustrina, Blume, Eumphia, i. 68 t. 25, from that island be 

 really the same. — Benth. 



The Thursday Island specimens, and some of the inland ones, closely resemble S. ligustrina, 

 Bl, but other inland ones have much narrower leaves of thicker texture. 



Wood of a dark-grey colour, very tough and elastic ; useful as hoops for casks.— Bajj««'s Cat 

 Ql. Woods No. 285. " 



2. S. psilosperma (seeds not hairy), F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 44 ; Benth. FL 

 Austr. iv. 369. A glabrous shrub, with weak but scarcely climbing branches, 

 or in the Brisbane district an erect tree 60 or more feet high, armed with slender 

 spines lin. long. Leaves broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, smooth and shining 

 when old, 3 or 5-nerved, contracted into a very short petiole, 1^ to 2in. long. 

 Flowers 5-merous, iu small thyrsoid or short panicles, axillary and terminal' 

 rarely exceeding the leaves. Calyx minute. Corolla not 2 lines long, the tube 

 very short ; lobes rather longer than the tube, broad and thifck, bearded inside at 

 the base. Anthers nearly sessile in the throat. Berry globular, about iin. or 

 less in diameter. Seeds usually solitary, orbicular, glabrous, not shining. 



Hab.: Percy Island, A. Cunningham; Edgecombe Bay, Mount Archer and Mount Ellott 

 Dallachy; Brisbane Eiver, Eookhampton, Eumundi, and Bundaberg. 



Wood lij<ht-yellow, with numerous white longitudinal streaks : the centre black or dark • the 

 gram close; hard and tough.— Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 286. «<"», "le 



