96 LXXXIV. APOCYNACE (STAPF). | Acokanthera. 
venenata. On the other hand, the A. venenata, mentioned in Lewin’s paper in Engl. 
Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. No. 41, in L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 255, and by Vogtherr im 
K6bler’s Mediz. Pfl. iii. text to t. 64, is certainly A. spectabilis. The specimen 
which Lewin examined was obtained from La Mortola ; Schweinfurth’s description of 
its leaves and remark (in Lewin, l.c.) that the flowers are one-third larger than those 
of A. Schimperi or A. Deflersii, leave no doubt about it. A. spectahilis also con- 
tains a deadly poison, ; 
7. PICRALIMA, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1896, 1278. 
Calyx middle-sized; sepals 5, free, imbricate, broad, obtuse, sub- 
coriaceous, with numerous small adpressed glands at the base within. 
Coroila salver-shaped ; tube cylindric, very slightly widened in the 
upper third, fleshy, naked at the mouth ; lobes 5, broad-eiliptic, obtuse, 
overlapping to the left. Stamens 5, enclosed in the widened part of 
the corolla-tube ; filaments very short, filiform; anthers free from the 
stigma, oblong-linear, subacute, shortly 2-lobed at the base; anther- 
cells polliniferous and dehiscing to the base. Disc 0. Carpels 2, 
coherent along the ventral sutures, oblong; style filiform; stigma 
eylindric-oblong, smooth, minutely 2-apiculate; ovules multiseriate, 
numerous. Fruit of 2 (or by abortion of 1) large obovoid-oblong 
baccate divaricate mericarps, slightly flattened at the base where they 
touch each other, but are free; pericarp thick, fleshy, fibrous, especially 
in the inner part, milky. Seeds many, oblong, compressed, horizontal 
and sessile on the fleshy placenta, more or less embedded in a scanty | 
fleshy pulp; hilum basal, punctiform; testa smooth, coriaceous; 
endosperm fleshy (hard when dry), ample. Embryo shorter than the 
endosperm ; cotyledons obovate-oblong about as long as or longer than 
the radicle——A glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, petioled, coriaceous ; 
petioles hollowed at the base; axillary stipules 0; axillary glands 
numerous, forming a fringe lining the cavity of the petiole, secreting 
resin. Inflorescence terminal, of 1 shortly peduncled or 2-3 closely 
approximate, few- to 12-flowered pseudo-umbels, much shortcr than 
the uppermost leaves. Flowers white, middle-sized, 
Species 1, endemic. 
1. P. klaineana, Pierre, lc. 1279. A tree 30-80 ft. high; 
branches stout, terete, dark brown or blackish. Leaves oblong, more or 
less abruptly acuminate, rotundate or subacute at the base, 5$-7 in. 
long, 2—3 in, broad, thinly coriaceous, glossy above ; secondary “nerves 
about 20 on each side, sumetimes with similar parallel tertiary nerves 
between them, rather spreading, straight to or beyond the middle, then 
slightly curved, joined by a distinct marginal nerve close to the edge; 
veins slightly prominent, anastomosing in more or less elongate areoles, 
subparallel to the side-nerves ; petiole stout, canaliculate, up to 6 Jin. 
long. Peduncle stout, $-1 in. long; bracts small or quite suppressed ; 
pedicels 4-6 lin. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 3 lin. long, shining 
