64 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEZ. 
long, in each axil, 7-10 lines broad, on petioles 3 and 2 lines long; the peduncle is 
5-6 lines long, the pedicels 4-5 lines long; sepals 1 line long; tube of corolla 14 lines 
long, 1 line broad in the middle; segments 8 lines long, 24 lines broad, horizontally and 
simply convoluted sinistrorsely in zestivation; style long and slender, clavuncle incras- 
sated with a basal membranaceous peltate appendage. 
6. Taberna Bn, nob.: Tabernemontana Riedelii, Müll. l. c. p. 72. In Amazonas ad Rio Madera 
(Riedel 1378) : non vidi. 
A shrub 8-10 feet high: subcoriaceous leaves broadly ovate, shortly acute at the base, 
with a short acute apex, punctulate-scabrous above, pallid below, and of an argillaceous 
olive colour, with about 15 pairs of nerves, 62-10 in. long, 4-5} in. broad, on very short 
petioles; panicle lateral, 8 or 10-flowered, on a scabridly hirsute peduncle, three times 
as long as the short petioles; pedicels as long as the calyx, with ovate ciliated bracts; 
sepals broadly ovate and rounded, with ciliated margins, and with many internal basal 
scales; tube of corolla five times as long as the calyx, 94 lines long, finely pulverulent 
and scabrous outside; stamens seated below the middle of tube on a pilose ring; ovaries 
glabrous, slightly swollen below the middle by an adnate disk. 
7. TABERNA DISTICHA, NOD. : Tabernemontana disticha, A. DC. viii. 362. In Guiana Gallica: non vidi. 
Branches terete, yellowish, with internodes shorter than the leaves: leaves dis- 
tichous, oblong, somewhat acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, membranaeeous, 
35 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, on petioles 2-3 lines long; raceme lateral, on a thick peduncle 
scarcely longer than the petioles, bearing about 5 approximated flowers, on pedicels 
scarcely longer than the calyx, with ovate ciliated bracts at their base, 4 line long; 
sepals obtusely ovate, small; tube of corolla 7 lines long, cylindrical, a little swollen 
about the middle, segments oblong, shorter than the tube, puberulous on both sides; 
stamens inserted near the middle of the tube; anthers sagittate, subcoherent at the 
base; disk agglutinated to the base of 2 ovaries free above. A species said to be near 
T. oblongifolia. ; | 
ANACAMPTA *. 
A genus distinguished by its stoutish angular branches, always more or less fistulous ; 
leaves generally large, oblong, rigidly chartaceous, upon stoutish petioles, flat above, 
deeply and hoodingly fossate at the base, and conjoined across the node by a transverse 
ridge; short lateral panicles on a stout peduncle bearing above several short branches, 
each with flowers on short pedicels; calyx generally rather small; tube of corolla 
cylindrical, stoutish, contracted below the middle at the insertion of the stamens, seg- 
ments rectangularly prolonged, $ the length of the tube, their apices descending into the 
tube in «estivation, as in Bonafousia; disk cylindrical, free, tubular, 5-sulcate, and 
5-crenulate; follicles 2, divergent, much compressed, dolabriform, smooth, each con- 
taining several ovoid subcompressed seeds attached to the suture by fleshy funicles. 
* From áraxdprrw (introflexo), from the singular introflexion of the segments of the corolla in sestivation. 
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