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Adenium.] LXXXIV. APOCYNACEH% (STAPF). 
Widened part of the corolla-tube more or less villous 
within ; apical anther-tails reaching to the corolla- 
mouth or exserted. 
Flowers produced at the same time as the leaves. 
Leaves obovate-cuneate, 14-3 times as long as 
broad . : . - : : : . 2. A. coétaneum. 
Leaves linear or linear-oblong, at least 4-5 times 
as long as broad. 
Leaves 4-10 lin. broad, tomentose or rarely 
glabrous ; flowers in paired racemes . . 8. A. speciosum. 
Leaves 3—4 (rarely -6) lin. broad, quite glabrous ; 
flowers solitary or in few-flowered subsessile 
cymes . 4 : “ 5 ° . 4, A. somalense. 
Flowers produced before the leaves; leaves glabrous. 
Corolla buds and lobes obtuse. 3 ‘ . 5. A. Honghel. 
Corolla buds and lobes caudate-cuspidate . . 6. A. multifiorum. 
1. A. beehmianum, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandeno. 
xxx, 259. A shrub, 9-12 ft. high; young branches softly tomentose. 
Leaves broadly obovate-cuneate, rounded or more or less notched at the 
apex, gradually or suddenly narrowed into the basal cuneate portion, 
33-4 in. long, 2-24 in. broad, rather coriaceous, softly and loosely 
tomentose on both sides, glaucous; secondary nerves subhorizontal, 
distinct, 14-21 lin. apart; petiole up to 1 lin. long. Cymes terminal 
or pseudo-axillary, tomentose; bracts triangular-lanceolate, 2-3 lin. long ; 
pedicels slender, up to 6 lin. long. Calyx 3 lin. long; sepals subulate- 
lanceolate, hairy. Corolla peach-coloured, purple in the throat, scent- 
less, more or less hairy without ; infra-staminal part of the tube 23 lin. 
long, with 5 hairy lines within, glabrous at the base, supra-staminal 
part 1 in. long, wide funnel-shaped, glabrous within; throat-scales 
obscure, almost wholly confluent; lobes obovate, very broad, 1-14 in. 
long, rounded, sometimes obscurely cuspidate. Anthers 21 lin. long, 
hairy on the back ; apical tails 5 lin. long. 
Lower Guinea. (jerman South-west Africa: Amboland ; Olukonda, Schinz, 
a Upingtonia and in the Northern and North-eastern parts of Hereroland, 
chinz, 
2. A. coétaneum, Stay. A shrub, 1-3 ft. high, with a very 
short fleshy trunk and succulent branches, generally more or less. hairy 
when quite young, and tapering from a very thick base (20 in. circum 
ference) to less than 1 in. in diam. Leaves obovate-cuneate, rounded or 
slightly retuse at the apex and usually minutely cuspidate, very gradually 
tapering towards the base, 14-4 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, succulent, 
stiff, more or less tomentose, especially when young, soon glabrescent or 
quite glabrous (even in bud); secondary nerves quite invisible or very 
faint, oblique, the middle ones 3-4 lin. apart ; petiole very short or 0. 
Cymes 2-flowered, contracted, sessile, terminal, from a bunch sare 
minutely tomentose or glabrous; bracts Janceolate to subulate, 2-3 lin. 
long ; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Calyx hairy, 3-5 lin. long; sepals 
‘anceolate. Corolla pink or crimson, more or less pubescent without ; 
infra-staminal part of the tube 34-5 lin. long, with 5 hairy lines 
