Acokanthera. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACEE (STAPF). 95 
in. Boll. Soc. Afr. Italia, x. (1891) xi.-xii. 13 (the Taita plant); Pax 
in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. B. 519 (che Taita plant). A. abyssinica, 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 48 (partly?) Cestrum venenutum, 
Thunb. Prodr. 36; FI. Cap. ed. Schult. 193. C. oppositifolium, Lam. 
(ll. ii. 5, t. 112, fig. 2; Poir. Suppl. ii. 182. Zomicophlea Thunbergii, 
Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 24, and Thes. Cap. 10, t. 16. 
T’. cestroides, A. DC. Prod. viii. 336. Siderorylum toxiferum, Thunb. 
Trav. ed. 3,1. 156, 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Taita; Ndara Mountain, 4000-4800 ft., 
Hildebrandt, 2452! Holmwood ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, 4500 ft., 
Holst, 8968! British Central Africa: Rhodesia; by streams near Buluwayo, 
Rand, 572! 
Also in South Africa. The root is used by the natives of the Taita District for 
poisoning arrows. Thunberg, l.c., also states that it is used for the same purpose by 
the Hottentots and that the Cape Dutch call it “Gift boom.” Suaheli name 
Mtchungu (Hildebrandt). 
3. A. spectabilis, //ook.f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6359. A tall shrub or 
small tree up to 15 ft. high, glabrous (except sometimes the inflores- 
cences); young branches compressed, Leaves elliptic or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, rarely obtuse, generally mucronate, acute at the base, 
23-5 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, very coriaceous, dark green, paler and 
sometimes purplish beneath; secondary nerves usually 7-10 on each 
Side, sometimes with similar tertiary nerves between them, faint 
or like the reticulating veins slightly prominent on both sides; 
petiole stout, 2-4 lin. long. Corymbs or clusters short, dense, many- 
flowered, subsessile, glabrous or puberulous; bracts ovate, cadu- 
cous, ciliolate. Calyx more or less pubescent, green or whitish, |} lin. 
long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, ciliolate. Corolla white, tinged with 
pink, fragrant; tube 7-9 lin. long, pubescent or almost glabrous without, 
hairy within; lobes ovate to oblong, acute, 2-3 lin. long. Anthers 
jlin. long. Stigma short, cylindric, obtusely apiculate. Berry ellipsoid, 
1 lin. long or longer, purplish-black. Seeds 1-2, semi-ellipsoid, 5—9 lin. 
long.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 126 ; Wood, 
Natal Pl. 60, t. 74. A. venenata, Schweinf. ex Lewin in Engl. Jahrb. 
xvii. Beibl. 41, 46, and Lewin, l.c, 47-51; L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 
255; Vogtherr in Kohler, Mediz. Pf. iii. text to t. 64; not of G. Don. 
A.sp., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 696. Carissa oblongifolia, Hochst. 
in Flora, 1844, 827, and ex Walp. Rep. vi. 466.  Toxicophlea 
spectabilis, Thiselton-Dyer ex Gard. Chron. 1872, 363; Flor. Mag. 
new ser. t. 20; Gard. Chron. xv.(1894) 209, fig. 23; Rev. Hort. 1879, 
270 with plate ; 1888, 517 with fig. 7’. Thunberyii, Sonder in Linnea, 
xxiii. 79; Gartenflora, 1878, t. 940; Rev. Hort. 1880, 370 with plate; 
Ill. Hortic. xxxii. (1885) t. 553, not of Harvey. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland, Pechuel Loesche 
{according to O. Kuntze in Jahrb. Berl. Bot. Gart. iv. 1886, 268) ? 
Hitherto only known from Natal. I suspect that O. Kuntze’s determination 
(made from a fruiting branch) is erroneous, and that the Hereroland plant is A. 
