92 LXXXIV. APOCYNACE® (STAPF). [ Carissa. 
-apiculate, 24 lin. long. Stamens inserted at the middle; anthers almost 
1 lin. long. Stigma some distance below the anthers, cylindric-oblong ; 
the whole pistil 3 lin. long. Ovules about 8 in each cell. Berry globose, 
bluish-black, pruinose, sweet. Seeds 6-8, lenticular.—Arduina tetramera, 
Sacleux in Morot, Journ de Bot. vii. 312. A. edulis, Warb. in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. B. 226 (the Amboni plant), not of Sprengel. Carissa edulis, 
Engl. Veg. Usambara, 27, not of Vahl. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar: in the littoral bush, Boivin; Kirk, 22! Hilde- 
brandt, 1271! Duparquet, Sacleux, German East Africa: Usambara; Umba 
Valley, Smith ! Amboni, in clearings, Holst, 24744 ! 
Imperfectly known species. 
C. africana, DC. Prod. viii. 332. A shrub, 6 ft. high ; branches 
-gnarled, spreading, with stout, simply or repeatedly bifurcate spines. 
Leaves ovate, acute, 14-2 in. long, #-1 in. broad, coriaceous, glabrous; 
secondary nerves few, indistinct, veins obscure; petiole 2 lin. long. 
Cymes 3—5-flowered, terminal, short; pedicels almost glabrous. Sepals 
narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Corolla 9 lin. long, white, 
,pubescent without; lobes ovate, as long as the tube. Berry ovoid, 
many-seeded, black, edible.—C. Carandas, Lour. F). Coch. 124, not of L. 
Mozamb. Dist. Coast of East Africa; probably Mozambique, Loureiro. 
De Candolle, l.c,. compares this to C. rylopicron, Thouars, which has few, 
short, slender, s mple spines or is, when adult, almost unarmed. 
6. ACOKANTHERA, G. Don; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. PI. i. 696. 
(Acocanthera, K. Schum.) 
Calyx small, eglandular within ; sepals free or aimost so, imbricate, 
-acute or acuminate, more or less scarious. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 
slightly widened near the mouth; lobes short, overlapping to the left. 
Stamens enclosed in the widened part of the tube; anthers ovate 
oblong, connective produced into a short minutely pilose point, shortly 
2-lobed at and dehiscing to the base. Disc 0. Ovary entire, 2-celled ; 
style filiform ; stigma short conic or cylindric, with a ring of papille at 
the base and a minutely 2-lobed hairy apiculus; ovule 1 in each cell, 
pendulous, attached to the centre of the septum. Fruit a globose or 
ellipsoid berry. Seeds 2, or 1 (by abortion), peltate, sessile on the 
septum, plano-convex; hilum oblong, rather large; endosperm bony; 
cotyledons broadly ovate or subcordate; radicle superior.—Unarm 
shrubs or small trees. Leaves thickly coriaceous ; axillary stipules 0; 
-axillary glands 0 or very scanty and minute. Corymbs very shortly 
peduncled or sessile, axillary, often reduced to clusters; flowers sub- 
sessile, white or tinged with pink, usually sweet-scented. 
Species 3 in tropical and South Africa, 1 extending to Arabia. 
Leaves not more than twice as long as broad ; 
corolla-tube 33-5 lin. long, very rarely longer. 
Secondary nerves 4-5 (rarely 6) on each side, 
often obscure and rather irregular . 1. A. Schimpert. 
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