Rauwolfia.| LXXXIV. APOCYNACE (STAPF). 115 
Leaves in whorls of 4-3, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, cuneate at the base, 4-8 in. long, 1-2} in. broad, thinly 
membranous ; secondary nerves 15—18 on each side, rarely fewer, much 
spreading, curved; veins quite obscure; petiole 4-12 lin. long. Flowers 
pedicelled at or near the ends of the secondary or tertiary rays of a 
compound umbel; peduncles 2-6 in. long; primary rays 24~} in. long; 
secondary and tertiary rays often very unequal, 6—2 lin. long; pedicels 
filiform, up to 3 lin. long. Calyx 3_? lin. long ; segments ovate, acute. 
Corolla yellowish; tube 3-3} lin. long, villous at the mouth; lobes 
ovate, obtuse, ? lin. long. Carpels free; style slender, glabrous. Fruit. 
a simple or divaricate twin drupe; drupes quite free, ovoid, subapiculate, 
3-4 lin. long, red.—R. monopyrena, K.Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 318. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Witu, Ziomas, 110! 180! Mombasa, Hilde- 
brandt, 2011! Wakefield! Rabai Hills, Taylor / 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, //olst, 28014! 
Zanguebar, Kirk, 84! Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, 
Kirk! 
14. R. vomitoria, 4/z. Stirp. Guin. Med. Sp. Nov. 1. A shrub or 
small tree, up to 20 ft. high, glabrous except the inflorescences ; young 
branches quadrangular. Leaves in whorls of 3-4, very variable in 
shape, lanceolate to elliptic, more or less acuminate at both ends, 3-7 
in. long, 1-3 in. broad, thinly membranous; secondary nerves 10-16, 
much spreading; veins usually very obscure ; petiole 3-15 lin. long. | 
Flowers in repeatedly dichotomous finely pubescent cymes, arranged in 
umbels ; peduncles $~3 in. long; primary rays 4-1 in. long; pedicels 
slender, from less than 4 lin. to 2 lin. long. Calyx } to over # lin. long ; 
Segments ovate, obtuse. Corolla white ; tube somewhat constricted at 
the very mouth, 3-31 lin. long ; hairy in the mouth; lobes ovate, 
obtuse, 4} lin. long. “ Carpels free; style slightly thickened and villous 
towards the base, 14-2 lin. long. Fruit a simple or divaricate twin 
drupe ; drupes quite free, ovoid, subapiculate, 34-4 lin. long, red.— 
Spreng. Syst. i. 834; DC. Prod. viii. 341; Hook. Niger Fl. 446; 
L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 295. R. Senegambie, DC. Prod. viii. 340 ; 
Hook. l.c.; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 154; De 
Wild. in Bull. Herb. Boiss, sér. 2, i. 34. R. seneyambica, A. DC. ex De 
Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 3, 
fase. 11.150. R. pleiosciadica, K. Schum.1.c., and in Schlechter, Westafr. 
Kautschuk-Exped. 307. R. Stuhlmannii, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 
Ost-Afr. ©. 318; R. congolana, De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus 
Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxviii. 204, and Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo 
Bot. sér, 3, fase. ii. 150. : 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Rio Nunez, Heudelot, 910. French Guinea; 
Near Sulimana, 3500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 5818! Duyania, Scott-Elliot, 4823! Sierra 
Leone: Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 4356 ! Bafodeya, Scott-Elliot, 5501! Bagru River, 
Mann! and without precise locality, Afzelius! Don / Vogel,103! Barter! Liberia: 
Grand Bassa, Vogel, 19! Gold Coast, Burton § Cameron! Lagos: Ebuta Metta, 
Millen, 20! Abeokuta, Irving, 23! 64! between Abeokuta and Ibadan, Schlechter, 
