Tab. 5543. 



PACHYPODIUM SUCCULENTUM. 



Succulent Pachypodium. 



Nat. Ord. Apocynace.e. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus; lobis lanceolatis, basi squama vel glandulis 

 omniao destitutis. Corolla bypocraterimorpha, sub-5-fida, externe puberula ; tubo 

 interne sub staminum insertione pilis retrorsis per lineas quinque hispido, esqua- 

 raato ; lobis restivatione sinistrorsum convolutis. Anthera supra mediam tubi 

 partem sessiles, sagittatse, acumine longo apice polline destituto, medio stigmati 

 adhairentes. Nectarium e glandulis 5 discretis truncatis constans. Ovaria 2, 

 ovata, glabra, nectario longiora. Omda oo. Stylus 1. Stigma oblongum, ad 

 basim angulo cinctum. Folliculi (ex E. Mey.) compressiusculi, erectmscub. 

 Semina obovata, subcoinpressa, pendula, ad umbilicum comosa, coma multo 

 breviora. Testa fulva, scabra, tenuis. Albumen tenuissimum, endopleurum simu- 

 lans. Embryo rectus ; radicula supera, crassa, ovoidea, prope cotyledones rotun- 

 data, apice conoidea ; cotyledonibus rotuudatis, basi cordatis, facie adpressis, sub- 

 foliaceis, radicula brevioribus.— Fruticuli Capenses, erecti ; caudice sphcerico vel 

 napiformi snccnlento ; ramorum epidermide caducd Icevi cortice subtus viridi aculeis 

 gemink ex epidermide sparsis ; foliis intra aculeos axiUaribus solitariis, petiolo 

 'subnullo ; floribus apice ramorum approximatis axiUaribus, roseo-albis. Alpli. Be 

 Cand., Prod. v. 8. 423. 



Pachypodium succnlentum ; ramis apice subvelutinis v. glabratis, foliis lanceo- 

 latis v. lineari-ovalibus acutis superne scabrido-pubescentibus g.abrescenti- 

 bus subtus pubescentibus v. tomentoso-pubescentibus, lobis corolla? obovatis 

 obovato-oblongisve obtusis vel retusis. 



Pachypodium succulentum. A. Be Cand. I. c. 



Echites succulenta. Thunb. Prodr. 37. 



Belonites succulenta. E. Mey. Comm. 187. 



Pachypodium tomentosum. Bon, Gen. Syst. v. 4. 78. 



Pachypodium tuberosum. Lindl. Pot. Peg. tab. 1321; Lodd. Pot. Cab. tab. 

 1676. 



A South African plant, originally described by Thunberg, be- 

 longing to the same remarkable category as the Ademum obesum 

 figured recently in this journal (Tab. 5418), and the two gouty- 

 stemmed Vines, V. Bainesii and V. macropus (Tabb. 54 / 2, 5479). 

 The exceptional habit of these plants in the families to which 



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