118 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEH (STAPF). | A llamanda. 
pedicels stout, 14-6 lin. long. Calyx 4-8 lin. long, quite glabrous, 
persistent ; sepals lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acute to subobtuse. 
Corolla yellow ; cylindric part of the tube and throat, each 2-2} in. 
long; lobes round, unequal, ?-1 lin. long; throat-scales fimbriate, 
Capsule ovoid-elliptic, 1} in. long, 1} in. broad. Seeds 4—5 lin. long, 
broadly winged.—Gertn. De Fruct. t. 61; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 259; 
Bot. Mag. t. 338; A.DC. Prod. viii. 318 ; Muell. Arg. in Fl, Brasil. vi. 1, 
1); K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 128, fig. 49, E-G; 
and in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 315; Stapf in De Wild. & Durand, 
Contrib. Fl. Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 2, i. fase. i. 33; De 
Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 3, fase. 
ii. 145. A. Schottii, Bot. Mag. t. 4351 (not of Pohl). A. Aubletii, Pohl, 
Plant. Brasil. i.75; Bot. Mag. t. 4411. Orelia grandiflora, Aubl. Guyan. 
i, 271, t. 106. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Boma, Dewevre, 417 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Stuhlmann, 636. 
A native of tropical South America, cultivated and sometimes naturalised in 
various parts of the Old World. 
14, LOCHNERA, Reichb. Conspectus, 154. 
Calyx middle-sized, herbaceous, eglandular within ; sepals 5, subulate, 
scarcely imbricate. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube slender, cylindric, 
slightly widened below the constricted, callous, velvety mouth ; lobes 
overlapping to the left. Stamens in the widened part of the corolla- 
tube; filaments very short; anthers free from the stigma; ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, shortly and obtusely 2-lobed at the base ; anther-cells 
polliniferous and dehiscing to the base. Disc replaced by two long 
linear glands alternating with the carpels. Carpels 2, free; style 
filiform ; stigma slightly below the level of the anthers, depressed- 
capitate, viscous with a long hyaline reflexed frill at the base and a 
minute obtuse 2-lobed apiculus surrounded by a very short erect mem- 
branous rim ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate. Mericarps follicular, cylindric, 
slightly spreading. Seeds numerous, small; testa rugose; hilum 
lateral ; endosperm fleshy ; cotyledons oblong, flat, shorter than the thick 
raidicle.—Annual or perennial herbs or small undershrubs. Leaves 
opposite ; axillary stipules 0; axillary glands numerous in a fringe, 
the outer long, filiform, the inner minute. Flowers axillary, solitary 
paired, white or pink.—Vinca, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. 703 
partly. 
Species 3, indigenous in tropical America, India, and Madagascar. One species 
widely diffused as a weed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of both 
hemispheres. 
1. L. rosea, Reichb. 1.c. A small undershrub, up to 3 ft. high. 
Leaves obovate or oblong, very obtuse (rarely subacute) and apiculate, 
acute at the base, 14-3 in. long, ?-1% in. broad, herbaceous, finely 
pubescent to subtomentose ; petioles 1-4 lin. long. Pedicels up to 1 lin. 
