LXXXIV. APOCYNACE# (STAPF). 29 
Corolla funnel-shaped, campanu- 
late or urceolate, usually with 
transverse scales or swellings 
above the insertion of the 
stamens; anther-tails acute, 
straight or nearly so. 
Flowers in terminal] and axillary 
p:nicles or corymbs, rarely 
in few-flowered subsessile 
cymes; corolla-lobes as long 
as, or more often very 
much longer than, the tube 38. Batssra 
Flowers in dense, small, subses- 
sileaxillary cymes ; corolla- 
lobes as long as or shorter 
than the tube . G . 389. ZyGopia. 
Corolla more or less salver-shaped, 
without transverse scales or 
swellings above the in- 
sertion of the  stimens; 
anther-tails very obtuse, 
strongly recurved. 
Corolla with 5 ligulate scales 
in the mouth; anther-tips 
acute, glabrous : . 4). ONCINOTIS. 
Corolla without scales in the 
mouth; anther-tips bearing 
a minutely plumose mucro 41, MorTanpRA. 
** Leaves spirally arranged ; stem succulent. 
Unarmed . ; : : : : : . 42. ADENIUM. 
Armed with spines at the base of the leaves . . 43. PACHYPODIUM. 
1. VAHADENIA, Stapf. 
Calyx 4-5 lin. long; sepals 5, broad-ovate, glabrous, with a fringe of 
short filiform glands within at the base, spreading or reflexed in fruit. 
Corolla salver-shaped, fleshy; tube subcylindric, slightly widened and 
staminiferous, at the middle, 7-8 lin. long, mouth naked ; lobes 5, over- 
lapping to the left. Stamens included ; filaments filiform, very short ; 
anthers linear-oblong, bilobed at and dehiscing to the base. Dise 0. 
Ovary entire, truncate, pubescent except at the glabrous base, | -celled ; 
placentas 2, parietal, very much projecting; style filiform; stigma 
conical from a thickened base, minutely 2-lobed, at the level of the 
anthers; ovules numerous, pluriseriate. Fruit a globose berry; 
pericarp very hard, woody, Seeds about 20,.—A semiscandent glabrous 
shrub. Leaves opposite, petioled; secondary nerves distant; axillary 
stipules 0. Flowers middle-sized, stout, shortly pedicelled, in few- 
flowered corymbs at the ends of the distant branches of an elongate 
panicle, which (iike the rhachis) are sensitive and act as_hook- 
tendrils. 
Species 1, endemic. 
Allied to the sections Mesandrecia and Ancylobotrys of Landolphia, but differing 
