490 SALVADORACEE (Wright). [ Azima. 
axillary, the male fascicled, the female solitary or in pairs; male 
flower: calyx 1 in. long, lobes 4, ovate, acute; petals linear-lanceo- 
late, ciliolate, a little longer than the calyx; female flower: calyx 
usually 2-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, apiculate; petals as in the 
male ; ovary glabrous; stigma nearly sessile ; berry globose, 1 in. in 
diam., whitish, edible. Weght, Illustr. ii. t. 152; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
~ Ind. iii. 620; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 659 ; Baker in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 22. Monetia barlerioides, L’ Hérit. Stirp. Nov. 
i,t. 1; Harv. § Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 474. 
Var. 8, laxior (C. H. Wright); flowers in trichotomous panicles rather 
shorter than the leaves. : 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Drége, 6749a! 6749b ! 
Coast Raion: Uitenhage Div. ; in valleys, 1500 ft., Bolus, 1659! Zeyher, 
477! Bathurst Div.; by the Kowie River at Port Alfred, Galpin, 2969! 
Burchell, 4017! Var. 8: Hast London Div.; East London Park, Wood in Herb. 
Galpin, 3129! 
tds Rxciox: Somerset Div.; by the Great Fish River, Burchell, 
8247 ! 
Eastern Recion: Natal, Gerrard, 1775! Delagoa Bay, Forbes ! 
Also in Tropical Africa, Madagascar and India. 
OrpbEr LXXXVII. APOCYNACEZ. 
(By Orto Srapr.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Caly« inferior ; sepals 5 (very 
rarely 4), free or slightly (rarely more) united, more or less imbri- 
cate, equal or more or less unequal, often with (usually scale-like) 
glands near the base inside. Corolla salver- or funnel-shaped, rarely 
campanulate, urceolate or subglobose, glabrous or more or less hairy 
within, sometimes with scales or callous protuberances or ridges in 
the tube or mouth; lobes usually convolute, overlapping and 
frequently also twisted to the right or to the left when viewed from 
the side, very rarely valvate. Stamens 5 (very rarely 4), inserted in 
the corolla-tube or mouth ; filaments filiform or more often flattened 
and short or reduced to a callous swelling, often passing at the base 
into more or less decurrent ridges projecting into the tube (filamental 
ridges) ; anthers frequently conniving in a cone, either linear or 
oblong (rarely elliptie), shortly and obtusely 2-lobed at the base with 
the anther-cells polliniferous and dehiscing to the base, or sagittate 
with barren tails (very frequently formed by the continuation of the 
outer halves of the cells), leaving the front basal part of the connec- 
tive (foot) free; foot of the connective smooth or with various 
shaped projections or regular groups of spreading hairs. Pollen 
nearly always spherical with 3 pores, loose or rarely more or less 
cohering. Disc, if present, annular or cupular, 5-lobed or consisting 
of 2-5 scales, sometimes more or less adnate to the ovary. Ovary 
superior, or slightly inferior, of 2 (very rarely 3-5) united or distinct 
carpels, if syncarpous, 1-celled with parietal or 2-celled with central 
