134 LXXXIV. APOCYNACE (STAPF). [ Carvalhoa. 
middle, without appendages in the throat, hairy within near the 
base of the anthers; lobes broad, obtuse, overlapping to the left, not 
inflexed in bud. Stamens inserted at the constriction of the corolla- 
tube; anthers conniving in a cone, subsessile, free from the stigma, 
included, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, sagittate; tails long, acute, 
more or less curved; back of the connective minutely tomentose, foot 
developed, narrow, flat, glabrous; filaments reduced to a callous swell- 
ing; filamental ridges short, slender, hairy. Disc annular, fleshy, 
undulate, adnate to the ovary. Carpels 2, free, except at the very 
base, gradually passing into the filiform style; stigma capitate, » 
grooved, very viscous, minutely apiculate, with an undulate ring at the 
base; ovules about 4-seriate, 30 or more in each cell. Mericarps (not 
quite mature) baccate (or subfollicular ?), obliquely erect, lanceolate, 
much narrowed at both ends, upper end incurved. Seeds about 8-10, 
ellipsoid, covered with a thin aril.—Shrubs dichotomously branched. 
Leaves opposite, herbaceous, thin; petioles hollowed out at the base 
and joined into a rim around the stem, with numerous filiform glands 
within. Flowers scarcely middle-sized, in few-flowered, very lax 
panicles from the upper branch-forks. 
Species 2 or 3 in tropical and South Africa. 
Leaves obtusely subauriculate at the base, sessile, 
pubescent : : : : < . 1. C. campanulata. 
Leaves acute at the base, shortly petioled, glabrous. 2. C. macrophylla, 
1. C. campanulata, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 189. A shrub; young branches puberulous. Leaves sessile, 
oblong to obovate-oblong, acute, narrower at the base, with almost 
parallel sides ; shortly and obtusely auriculate, 2-3} in. long, up to I} 
in. broad, herbaceous, pubescent on both sides; secondary nerves s-# 
on each side, slender, curved. Panicles few-flowered, lax, pubescent; 
peduncle very slender, about 1 in. long; bracts small, linear; pedice’s 
up to lin.long. Calyx 14 lin. long, finely puberulous ; sepals ovate, 
acute toacuminate. Corolla subcampanulate-funnel-shaped ; tube 33 im. 
long, constricted below the middle; lobes rotundate-elliptic, 2 lin. long. 
Anthers 14 lin. long. Pistil 2 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique; Mosoril, near 
Cabeceira, Carvalho ! 
2. C. macrophylla, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb, xxx. 381. 
perfectly glabrous shrub, 9-12 ft. high; branches erect, straigh 
slender and compressed when young, green in the upper part, yellows! 
grey below. Leaves elliptic or oblong, shortly and very acutely aol 
nate, acute at the base, 34-9 in. long, 14-32 in. broad, membranous: 
secondary nerves 10-16 on each side, somewhat prominent below; 
petiole up to 24 lin. long. Panicles 4~—12-flowered, axillary, Jong 
peduncled ; pedicels 23-3} lin. long; bracts lanceolate, acumin® - 
Calyx 1 lin. long; sepals ovate, acute, minutely ciliolate. Corolla ne 
campanulate-funnel-shaped, 64 lin. long, pale yellow with red stripe 
