Adenium. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACE# (STAPF). 229 
distinct, otherwise nerveless ; petiole very short or 0. Cymes subsessile, 
few- to 1-flowered, terminal or pseudo-axillary, more or less hairy; 
bracts subulate ; pedicels 2 lin. long. Calyx 3 lin. long, hairy ; sepals 
lanceolate, subulate. Corolla pink; infra-staminal part of the tube 
3-34 lin. long with 5 hairy lines descending almost to the middle, 
glabrous below, supra-staminal part wide funnel-shaped or tubular, 
7 lin. long, with 5 villous lines inside; throat-scales small, scarcely 
decurrent, confluent and forming an obversely triangular pocket ; lobes 
obovate, shortly acuminate, 6 lin. long. Anthers 2-2} lin. long; apical 
tails exserted.—Schweinf, & Volkens, Liste Pl. Voy. Ghika-Comanesti 
Somal. 9. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Berbera, Playfair, 3! “Djedagnio,” Miss Edith 
Cole! Darror, James & Thrupp! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort Philips. 
5. A. Honghel, 4. DC. in DC. Prod. viii. 412, not of Lindl. A 
shrub, 6-10 ft. high, with a large trunk and soft-wooded stout branches, 
glabrous except the inflarescence and tips of the branches, leafless when 
in flower. Leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, narrowed 
towards the base, 3-4 in. long, 8-10 lin. broad, glabrous; secondary 
nerves oblique; petiole 0 (2). Cymes much contracted, 2-10-flowered, 
terminal, sessile, preceded by more or less numerous deciduous triangular 
indurated bud-scales, hairy; bracts lanceolate, 2-3 lin. long; pedicels 
very short. Calyx 3-4 lin. long, hairy; sepals lanceolate. Corolla 
crimson ; infra-staminal part of the tube 4-5 lin. long with 5 hairy 
lines descending almost to the middle, glabrous below, supra-staminal 
part tubular or funnel-shaped, 9-12 lin. long, scantily villous within ; 
throat-scales obscure, almost wholly confluent and forming an obversely 
triangular pocket ; lobes rotundate-ovate, 6—8 liu. long, very minutely 
or not at all mucronate. Anthers 2—24 lin. long ; apical tails more or 
less exserted. Follicles 4-6 in. long. Seeds 6 lin. long, coma 1 In. 
long.—Hook. Niger. Fl. 450 
Upper Guinea. Lower Senegal region: Oualo; Lampsar, Roger, 133! Oualo 
and Galam, Leprieur, Perrotet ! Niger Territory: Borgu ; near Wawa, Barter, 711! 
The plant figured by Lindley in Bot. Reg. xxxii, tab. 54 as A. Honghel is 
A. arabicum, Balf, £., Bot. Socotra, 161. 
6. A. multiflorum., Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 279, 
#.xliv, A shrub 4-8 ft. high, leafless when in flower ; branches succulent, 
stout, glabrous except at the very tips when young. Leaves obovate to 
oblong, subacute or obtuse, acute or subacuminate at the base, 2-3 in. 
ong, 9-15 lin. broad, subcoriaceous ; midrib rather thin ; nerves faint, 
though usually distinct, very oblique ; petiole 1-2 lin. long. Cymes 
much contracted, 5—15-flowered, terminal, sessile, preceded by more or 
less numerous deciduous triangular indurated bud-scales, hairy ; bracts 
lanceolate, 2-3 lin. long; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Calyx 3-4 lin. 
long, hairy ; sepals lanceolate. Corolla white or pink, conspicuously 
Cuspidate in bud ; infra-staminal part of the tube 3-4 lin. long, with 
> hairy lines descending almost to the middle, glabrous below, supra- 
Staminal part funnel-shaped, villous within, 9-12 lin. long; throat- 
