150 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEH (STAPF). [ Conopharyngia, 
by young shoots, many-flowered, loose; peduncle 1—2 in. long; bracts 
small, scarious, caducous; pedicels slender, up to 6 lin. long. Calyx 
1-1} lin. long; sepals rotundate-ovate, obtuse, not ciliolate, with 1 bifid 
or 2—3 entire basal glands within. Corolla yellowish-white ; tube short, 
cylindric, 3-3 lin. long, constricted and thin and glabrous within below 
the stamens, more fleshy and hairy within in the upper part; lobes 
oblong, 44 lin. long. Stamens inserted 1 lin. above the base of the 
corolla-tube ; anthers subsagittate, with short solid basal points, 1 lin, 
long. Style } lin. long; stigma subulate, densely papillose, 2-fid, from 
a globose or ellipsoid viscid base, supported by a ring of 10 small spread- 
ing lobes. Berries obliquely ovoid, with apiculate recurved tips and 
1 dorsal and 2 lateral ridges, up to 2 in. long, fleshy, covered with 
numerous suberous warts, at length dehiscing ventrally.— Tabernemon- 
tana elegans, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 24; K. Schum. in Engl. PA. 
Ost-Afr. C. 316. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, Kirk! 
between Sena aud Lupata, Kirk, 30a! 42! Shiramba, Peters / Chiromo, Scott- 
Elliot, 28064! Shire Highlands, Johnston ! 
The Mombasa plant has (in comparison to the specimens from the Zambesi basin) 
very narrow, lanceolate leaves (?-1 in. broad) with more oblique side-nerves and 
slightly smaller flowers. On the other hand, a form occurs with thin, strictly 
oblong and obtuse leaves and fruits up to 4 in. long when dry. The material at 
hand is too scanty to suggest whether those differences are constant or not. 
Imperfectly known species. 
19. Tabernzmontana grandiflora, Hook. in Gray & Dochard, 
Trav. West. Afr. App. 389, t. B., not of Linn. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
acute at both ends or with subobtuse tips, 5 in. long, 14 in. broad ; 
secondary nerves up to 12 on each side; petiole 4 lin. long. Flowers 
solitary, pseudo-axillary ; peduncle stout, 6-10 lin. long. Calyx about 
5-6 lin. long; sepals ovate, obtuse. Corolla white; tube about 1 
in. long, much twisted, widened at the middle; lobes obliquely 
obovate-oblong. Stamens inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube; 
anthers sagittate. Carpels free; style filiform; stigma. cylindric with 
a basal ring. Berries ovoid, apiculate.— 7’. africana, A. DC. Prod. vul. 
367 ; L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 294; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 148. 
Upper Guinea. Frencii Guinea: Kakundi, on the Rio Nunez, Kummer. 
This plant was described from a drawing made by Kummer on the spot, the 
original specimen having been lost. If the drawing is correct in all its proportions, it 
doubtless represents a distinct species of Conopharyngia ; but I suspect this is not the 
case. The foliage is quite like that of C. longiflora, and the figures of the flower an 
fruit would, except for their reduced size, also answer fairly well for that species. 
20. Tabernzemontana mborensis, K. Schum. in Engl. Veg 
Uluguru Gebirges in Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, xvi. (1900) 198 
(name only). 
Mozamb. Dist. German E:st Africa: North Uluguru ; near Mboro, 
Schumann. 
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