Strychms.] LXXXI. LOGANIACEiE. 1025 



8. S. Bancroftiana (after Dr. Joseph Bancroft), Bail. SriT Suppl, Syn, 

 Ql. Fl. 47. Snakewood. Stems climbing, terete, often reaching the height of 

 ,40 or 50ft,, diameter of lower part 2in. In the upper portion, especially near 

 the inflorescence, furnished with curved tendrils, which are curved like rams' 

 horns, sometimes in pairs,. Leaves opposite, glabrous, ovate-acuminate, 4 to 

 Tin. long, IJ to Sin. broad, triplinerved with often another lower pair forming 

 an intramarginal nerve, and prominently reticulated ; texture thin, cartilaginous, 

 petioles scarcely gin. long. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, or in racemose 

 panicles 3 or 4in. long. Flowers not seen. The persistent calyx under the fruit 

 of 5 blunt lobes about a line long and broad. Fruit a globular brown berry, § to 

 lin. diameter, bearing the erect style. Seeds flat, orbicular, from 1 to 4 in a 

 fruit embedded in a mealy pulp. 



Hab.: Tringilburra Creek and Mulgrave Kiver, Bellenden Ker Exped. (1889). 



I gave a few seeds of this plant to Dr. Thos. L. Bancroft for examination for active properties, 

 and the following is his note : — " The seeds of the new Stryehnos, like those of the other two 

 Queensland species, are bitter ; but they do not cornain strychnine or, indeed, any poisonous 

 substance." 



Order LXXXII. GENTIANEiE. 



Calyx of 4 or 5, rarely more, lobes or segments. Corolla usually regular, 

 with 4 or 5, rarely more, lobes, contorted or otherwise imbricate or induplicate 

 in the bud. Stamens as many as corolla-lobes and alternate with them, inserted 

 in the tube. Anthers versatile, with 2 parallel cells opening longitudinally or in 

 terminal pores. Ovary l^celled, but with 2 parietal placentas often projecting 

 into the cavity so as partially to divide it into 2 or 4 cells, or rarely completely 

 2-celled ; ovules numerous ; style single, entire or with 2 short stigmatic lobes. 

 Fruit a capsule, opening septicidally in 2 valves or rarely indehiscent or succulent. 

 Seeds small, with a fleshy albumen. Embryo small, straight, with short 

 cotyledons. — Herbs, very rarely in species not Australian, shrubs, usually glabrous 

 and bitter. Leaves opposite and entire in the principal tribe, alternate or 

 clustered in the Menyanthem. Stipules none. Flowers usually in cymes or 

 corymbose panicles, rarely clustered or solitary. 



The Order is chiefly abundant in the temperate or mountainous regions of the northern 

 hemisphere, with a few tropical or southern species. 



Tribe I. Eugrentlanese. — Terrestrial plants. Leaves opposite. Corolla-lohes contorted 

 or otherwise imbricate in the bud. Testa of the seeds membranous. 



Corolla-tube cylindrical or short ; lobes spreading, contorted in the bud. 

 Style deciduous. 

 Calyx divided nearly to the base. Anthers at length recurved at the tips. 



Ovary completely 2-celled 1- Sbb.s:a. 



Calyx shortly lobed. Anthers straight or at length twisted. Ovary 



1-celled with parietal placentas 2. EEYTHBaiA. 



Corolla-tube cylindrical; lobes spreading, imbricate in the bud. Calyx 

 narrow-tubular, shortly 4-toothed 3. Cansooba. 



Tbibe II. ItZenyantheae. — Aquatic or mwrsh plants. Leaves radical or alternate, some- 

 times floating. Corolla-lobes with broad margins, induplicate in the bud. Testa of the seeds 

 criistaceous. 



Capsule opening at the top in 4 valves. Marsh plants. Flowers in loose 

 cymose panicles .... . . j 4. Villarsia. 



Capsule indehiscent, usually ovoid. Plants usually aquatic. Leaves with 

 a broad lamina. Pedicels clnsteveJ or rarely solitary 3. Limmanthi'mu}!, 



