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Logania.

Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, usually connected by a transverse raised stipular line or short sheath, rarely with minute setaceous stipules. Flowers small, often unisexual, in terminal or axillary cymes or solitary. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla campanulate or with a cylindrical tube; lobes 5, rarely 4, spreading, imbricate. Stamens 5, rarely 4, inserted on the corollatube; filaments filiform; anthers included or exserted. Ovary 2-celled; style smiple; stigma capitate or oblong; ovules usually several in each cell. Capsule oblong-ovoid or globose, obtuse or shortly acuminate, septicidally 2-valved, valves 2-fid, at length separating from the placentas. Seeds ovoid or more or less peltate.

1. L. depressa, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 177.—"A prostrate rigid woody shrub; branches densely interlaced, puberulous. Leaves ⅙–¼ in. long, coriaceous, veinless, linear-obovate or oblong, obtuse. Flowers minute, axillary, pedicelled, bracteate, solitary or in 3–5-flowered panicles, male only seen. Sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla scarcely longer than the calyx; lobes rounded. Filaments slender; anthers large, 2-cleft for half-way up. Ovary imperfect in my specimens (which are probably unisexual); style short, clavate; stigma oblong, thick. Fruit unknown."—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 188.

Glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite, connected by a transverse line or short sheath. Flowers small, in opposite axillary cymes or clusters. Calyx 5-partite; segments acute. Corolla campanulate or almost rotate; lobes 5, spreading, imbricate, usually contorted in the bud. Stamens 5, afifixed to the tube or throat of the corolla; filaments short; anthers included or exserted. Ovary 2-celled;