196 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEZ (STAPF.) [ Alafia. 
Leaves large, 7-10 in. long, 4-5} in. broad . IL. A. grandis. 
Leaves smaller. 
Leaves very abruptly caudate-acuminate ; 
corolla-tube 4—44 lin. long ; style puberu- 
lous. : : : : : : 
Leaves not abruptly caudate-acuminate; corolla- 
tube about 2 lin. long; style glabrous. 
Flowers white with a red centre; corolla- 
lobes slightly shorter to slightly longer 
than the tube. 
Corymbs subsessile or shortly peduncled ; 
secondary nerves 9-11 on each side; 
petiole 2-5 lin. long : : : 
Corymbs mostly on long slender peduncles ; 
secondary nerves 6-9 on each side ; 
petiole 1-2 lin. long 4 : . 4 A. Barterr. 
Flowers yellow with a red centre ; corolla- 
lobes distinctly longer than the tube. 
Leaves 2-4 in. long, 1-1} in. broad; 
secondary nerves 4-5 on each side, 
oblique . : - 5 : : 
Leaves 14-2 in. long, 4-3} in. broad; 
secondary nerves about 8 on each 
side, very oblique : : : 
Flowers white (where known), in 7-2-flowered 
peduncled pseudo-umbels; intra-calycular glands 
distinct. 
Inflorescence delicately puberulous; sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, acute; anther-cone distinctly 
2. A. Schumannii. 
3. A. landolphioides. 
5. A. lucida. 
6. A. Benthamii- 
exserted . ¢ 5 : : : . 7. A. Butayer. 
Inflorescence glabrous; sepals ovate, obtuse ; 
anther-cone just reaching to the mouth . 8. A. caudata. 
Flowers white, in few-flowered subsessile cymes; 
intra-calycular glands very minute . : . 9. A. sarmentose. 
1. A. grandis, Stapf. Branches terete, velvety. Leaves broad- 
elliptic, shortly acuminate or sometimes emarginate, rounded at 
the base, 7-10 in. long, 4-54 in. broad, subcoriaceous, rather thick, 
glossy and glabrous above, hairy below especially on the nerves; 
secondary nerves 10-12 on each side, arching below the margin 4” 
raised like the loosely anastomosing veins. Cymes many-flowered, 
contracted, finely pubescent or velvety ; peduncles very short or up to 
Zin. long; bracts minute, broad-ovate, obtuse; pedicels up to 1} hn. 
long. Calyx rather velvety, 1-14 lin. long; sepals ovate, obtuse. 
Corolla white with a scarlet throat; tube 24-3 lin. long, hairy inside 
below the stamens, velvety without; lobes suborbicular, as long he 
tube, somewhat hairy at the mouth. Staminal cone not quite reaching 
to the corolla-mouth, 2 lin. long. Carpels puberulous.—Tabernemon” 
tana erythrophthalma, K Schum. MSS. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker § Staudt, 
701! 
213° 
