Funtumia.]} LXXXIV, APOCYNACEH (STAPF). 193 
Schlechter, 12596. Lake Leopold II. District; Kutu Ibali, Kiri Valley, Bolle! 
Delhez Mission, Delhez ! near Lusambo, on the River Sankuru, Luja ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar: Dunga Estate, Lyne ! German East Africa: 
Usambara; Lutindi, Holst, 3380! Derema, Scheffler, 176 ! 
This species does not seem to yield any serviceable rubber. 
33. MASCARENHASIA, A. DC.; Benth. et Hook. 
fi Gone Plo V2 
Calyx small, herbaceous, multiglandular inside the base; sepals 
almost free, imbricate, ovate or oblong. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 
cylindric, generally suddenly constricted below the insertion of the 
stamens, mouth naked ; lobes 5, oblong, induplicate-valvate, straight or 
twisted in bud. Stamens inserted near the mouth or at or below the 
middle of the corolla-tube ; filaments very short ; anthers lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, sagittate, appendages as long as or longer than 
the polliniferous part, tailed; foot of the connective glabrous, chan- 
nelled above, with a tongue-shaped projection from the middle, hairy 
below. Disc large, tubular or cup-shaped, shortly 5-lobed or divided 
into 5 glands, 4 of which are connate in pairs. Carpels 2, free, exserted 
from or shorter than the disc ; style filiform ; stigma oblong or cylindric 
with a papillose rim at the base and a minute bifid apiculus, tightly 
attached to the foot of the connective; ovules numerous, pluriseriate. 
Mericarps follicular, linear, slender, divaricate. Seeds linear-oblong, 
rather obtuse at both ends with an apical coma; endosperm scanty or 
9; cotyledons linear or oblong, slightly undulate in cross section ; 
radicle cylindric.—Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite; axillary 
stipules 0 ; axillary glands obscure. Flowers usually conspicuous, 
pink or purple, solitary or in few-flowered fascicles, terminal or pseudo- 
axillary, 
Species 12-15, all but 2 in Madagascar. 
Leaves narrowly oblong, 33-51 in. long, 3-1 in. 
broad ; corolla up to 8 lin. long ; dise slightly 5- 
ee 
Leaves oblong, 3-10 in. long, 13-21 in. broad ; corolla 
up to 6 lin. long; dise of 5 glands, distinct or 
connate in pairs : - : : : 
1. MW. variegata. 
2. M. elastica. 
1. M, variegata, Britten d: Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 
Bot. iv. 26, t. vi. Jigs. 1-8.—A glabrous shrub ; branches terete, pallid. 
aves narrowly oblong, obtuse or obscurely acuminate, acute at the 
©, 34-5} in. long, 311 in. broad, coriaceous, glaucous, at least when 
Mature ; secondary nerves about 8 on each side, very faint ; petiole 
tad In. long. Cymes few-flowered or reduced to a single flower, sub- 
Sessile ; bracts minute ; pedicel 2—3 lin. long. Calyx 1 lin. long ;_seg- 
ments ovate, subacute. Corolla-tube constricted at the middle, 4-5 lin. 
“ > lobes ovate, acuminate, 3 lin. long, densely villous witbin. Dise 
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