122 LXXXIV. APOCYNACE4 (STAPF). | Zabernanthe. 
17. TABERNANTHE, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. 783. 
Calyx small, herbaceous, with 5 small glands within, alternating 
with the sepals ; sepals 5, almost free, imbricate, ovate, acute, rotun- 
date, very minutely ciliolate. Corolla small, salver-shaped ; tube sub- 
cylindric, or more or less inflated below, thin ; lobes overlapping to the 
left, very broad, obtuse, as long as or shorter than the tube, tips not 
inflexed in bud. Stamens inserted about the middle of the corolla- 
tube ; anthers conniving in a cone, included, subsessile, linear-sagittate, 
finely acuminate, wings with thin involute margins ; tails acute, foot of 
connective narrow, flat, glabrous, slightly viscous ; filaments very short, 
stout, hairy in front ; filamental ridges very slender. Dise 0. Ovary 
syncarpous, imperfectly 2-celled; style filiform; stigma capitate, j- 
grooved, viscous, with a short reflexed membrane at the base and a 
slender 2-fid apiculus; placentas parietal, much projecting, united at 
the bottom and the top; ovules 2—4-seriate, numerous. Fruit baccate, 
fleshy, ovoid, acuminate. Seeds few, embedded in a scanty pulp (mem- 
branous when dry), ellipsoid, ventrally deeply grooved; testa very 
thick, corky, divided by deep longitudinal and transverse grooves into 
seriate tubercles; endosperm ruminated by the intruding testa, fleshy; 
cotyledons transverse, thin, concavo-convex, about as long as the radicle. 
—Shrubs or small trees, dichotomously branched. Leaves opposite, thin, 
herbaceous ; axillary stipules 0 ; axillary glands filiform, often numerous. 
Flowers small, in terminal or pseudo-axillary, usually paired, lax, few- 
flowered, corymbose or pseudo-scorpioid inflorescences. 
Species about 5, endemic. 
Corolla-tube inflated and ovoid at the base. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, 
acute at the base, distinctly petioled . le Bocca. 
Leaves oblanceolate to subcbovate, minutely = 
rounded at the base, subsessile or sessile . 2. T. subsessilis. 
Corolla-tube subcylindric, slightly narrowed above 
the middle. 
Corolla-tube 33-4 lin. long S : - . 8. T. Manni. 
Corolla-tube 2-23 lin. long. 
Corolla white ; leaves with petioles up to 4 lin. 
leng, acute or acuminate at the base . 4 T. Iboga. 
Corolla yellowish ; one leaf of each pair usually 
sessile or subsessile and shortly rounded at 
the base, the other shortly petioled and 
acute or subacute at the base . 5. T. tenuiflora. 
1. T. Bocca, Stapf. <A glabrous shrub ; branches reddish-brow?; 
lenticels small, scattered. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, gradually long 
acuminate, (acumen subacute, rather broad, up to } in. long), acute ¢ 
subacute at the base, 4-5 in. long, 14-13 in. broad, herbaceous, thin; 
secondary nerves 9-11 on each side, oblique, curved; veins faint ; 
petioles up to 1} lin. long. Inflorescences geminate from the branch- 
forks, few- to 8-flowered, subcorymbose or subumbelliform, droop!"g, 
