228 LXXXIV. APOCYNACE (STAPF). [Adenium.. 
descending from the filaments almost to the middle, otherwise glabrous 
within, supra-staminal part wide, tubular or rather funnel-shaped, 
8-15 lin. long, sparingly villous in the throat with 5 descending hairy 
lines; throat-scales short, decurrent on one side and confluent below, 
forming an obversely sagittate pocket ; lobes oblong or obovate, slightly 
longer than broad, 8-12 lin. long, obscurely acuminate, usually minutely 
cuspidate, Anthers 3 lin. long; apical tails reaching to or beyond the 
corolla-mouth.—A. speciosum, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 108 not 
of Fenzl. A. No. 2, Oliv. l.c. A. obeswm, Balf. f. in Trans. Roy. Soc. 
Edin. xxxi. 161 paruly ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 319, and 
in Engl. Jahrb, xxviii. 453 (?) not of Roem. & Schult. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Bari district, Speke § Grant, 766! Upper Nile, 
Freeman & Lueas, 75! British East Africa: East shore of Lake Rudolf, Wellby, 
98! 20-60 miles inland from Mombasa, Binns! Johnston! near Mowbasa, 
Hildebrandt, 105 B! Jomvu, Wakefield! Ribe, Wakefield ! Witu, Thomas, 130! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa; around Kilimanjaro, New / Usambara 
Tanga, Volkens, 145! on a plain by the Wami River, Hildebrandt, 1009 
Usaramo; Muhonyera, Speke 4 Grant! Uluguru; steppe forest, near Behobelo, 
north of Kongulio, Stuhlmann, 9319 (ex Schumann). 
This species is undoubtedly very closely allied to A. obesum, Roem. & Schult. ; 
but in this the flowers are produced on leatiess branches, the leaves are not so con- 
spicuously cuneate and the corolla-lobes almost orbicular. 
3. A. speciosum, Fenzl in Sitzungsb. Akad. Wien. Math.-Nat. li. 
140. Trunk conical, 4 ft. high or more, 2-3 ft. thick at the base, 
scantily branched at the top; young branches silky-tomentose, elongate. 
Leaves oblanceolate or linear-oblong, rounded at the apex or slightly 
retuse, mucronulate, rather suddenly or (rarely) gradually narrowed at 
the base, 2-4 in. long, 4-10 lin. broad, softly tomentose on both sides, 
rarely glabrous ; secondary nerves oblique, very faint, 2$-3 lin, apart; 
petiole stout, very short or 0. Inflorescence racemose, forked almost 
from the base, few- or many-flowered; branches stout, 13-3 in. long, 
tomentose, with numerous subulate bracts 2-3 lin. long ; pedicels very 
short and stout. Calyx hairy, 3-34 lin. long; sepals subulate from 4 
triangular base. Corolla deep pink ; infra-staminal part 4—5 lin. long, 
with 5 hairy lines descending to or beyond the middle, glabrous at the 
base within, supra-staminal part funnel-shaped, 3-1 in. long, villous 
within ; throat-scales very short, decurrent on one side, confluent at the 
base, forming an obversely sagittate pocket ; lobes suborbicular, minutely 
cuspidate. Anthers 3} lin. long; apical tails reaching to the mouth. 
Follicles linear-spindle-shaped, tomentose, reflexed, 5-7 in. long. Seeds 
5 lin. long, striate; coma 10-12 lin. long, reddish. 
Nile Land. South-West Kordofan: Jebel (Mount) Hedra, Kotschy, 399! 
Sennar ; near Fazokl, and Jebel Akaro, Kotschy, 399! 
4. A. somalense, Balf. f. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. xxxi. 162. A 
shrub, perfectly glabrous, except the inflorescence ; branches succulent, 
from 1-6 lin. thick, Leaves linear-oblong to linear, mucronulate, 
shortly acute at the base, 1}-24 in. long, 1-9 lin. broad, succulent, midrib 
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