94 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEX (STAPF). | Acokanthera. 
mountains south of Zeila,ex Burton. Ahl Mountains, 3000-3900 ft., Hildebrandt, 
1431! Golis Range, Mrs. Lort-Philips/ Miss Edith Cole! mountains of the 
Warsangeli and Mijurti districts, Révoil! Habrawal, Donaldsou-Smith! British 
East Africa: Leikipia, 6000-8000 ft., Thomson! Héhnel; Ellamo, 4500 ft., 
Delamere! Mau, 7000 ft., Johnston! Ukamba, 6000 {t., Scott-Elliot, 6395! Nyika, 
Gregory / 
Also in South- western Arabia, 
Var. B Deflersii, Stapf. Branches and leaves scabrid, at least when young, the 
latter frequently larger than in the type. Corolla-tube 5-6 lin. long, pubescent or 
glabrous.—A. Deflersii, Schweinf. ex Lewin in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 41, 46, and 
Lewin, l.c. 47-51, fig. E, and in Virchow’s Archiv. l.c. 233; L. Planchon, Prod. 
Apocyn. 250; Vogtherr in Kohler, Mediz. Pfl. iii. text to t. 64. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Ginda ; on the Dongollo Hills, 3200 ft., Schweinfurth 
& Riva, 2223! and near the Felakhit River, Schweinfurth § Riva, 2183! Somali- 
land : Wagga Mountains, 6000 ft., Mrs. Lort-Philips! British East Africa: 
between Lé and Tocha, Delamere ! 
Also in South-western Arabia. This is probably only an individual variation, such 
as occurs frequently, for instance, in Carissa edulis. 
A decoction of the root of 4. Schimperi is,as J. Vaughan (in Pharm, Journ, ser. 7, 
xii, 271) and F. S. Arnott [see Burton, “ First Footsteps in Kast Africa” (ed, 1894) 
i. 189, footnote] first pointed out, used by the Somalis for poisoning arrows. The 
Wandorobbo, Wakamba, Wanyika and other tribes of British East Africa also use it 
for the same purpose. The Somali name for the plant is Wabei or Waba, and 
for the poison Wabayo or Ouabaio (Rochebrune & Arnaud, Rech. sur le Quabaio 
in Mission Révoil Pays Comalis), the Masai name Murzu, 
2. A. venenata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 485. A shrub or a 
gnarled tree, upto 14 ft. high, glabrous (except sometimes the inflores- 
cence); young branches compressed or ancipitous, smooth, Leaves 
mostly ovate or elliptic, sometimes oblong, rarely lanceolate, acute and 
usually mucronulate, rarely obtuse, acute at the base, 14-4 in. long, 
3_2 in. broad, pale or olive-green when dry, somewhat shining above 
or on both sides; secondary nerves 6-10 on each side, often with 
similar interposed tertiary nerves, oblique, parallel, prominent on both 
sides ; veins distinct or obscure ; petiole stout, 1-2 lin. long. Clusters 
glabrous or puberulous, sessile or subsessile, usually many-flowered ; 
bracts ovate, brown or the upper pinkish. Calyx glabrous or puberu- 
lous, 1 lin. long ; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, 
distinctly to very obscurely ciliolate. Corolla white to pink, sweet- 
scented ; tube 3}-5 lin. Jong, puberulous or glabrous without, hairy 
within ; lobes broad-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, somewhat over 
1 lin. long. Anthers 4—? lin. long. Stigma short, obtuse, conic. 
Berry globose, 1 in. in diam., purplish-black ; seeds semi-globose or semi- 
ellipsoid, 4-6 lin. long.—Vatke ex Schweinf. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 
Beibl. 41, 46 (footnote); Holmes in Pharm. Journ. ser. 3, xxiv. 42; 
K. Schum. in Eng]. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii, 126 (not of Schweinf. 
ex Lewin in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 41, 46, and Lewin, I.c. 49-51, 47; 
fig. A., nor L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 255, nor Vogtherr in Kohler, 
Mediz. Pf. iii. t. 64). 4. Lamarkii, Don, l.c. A. Schimperi, Schweinf. 
