Landolphia.] APOCYNACE® (Stapf). 495 
the calyx, slender, delicately pubescent ; lobes linear-oblong, sub- 
acute, about 1 in. long, margin sparingly ciliate; stamens inserted 
1; lin. above the base of the corolla-tube; ovary very delicately 
silky-tomentose ; ovules about 30 on each placenta, in 6 rows 3; fruit 
“yellow, about the size of a small orange, pulp yellow” (R. 
Monteiro), Aneylobothrys petersiana, var. forbesiana, Pierre in Bull. 
Soe. Linn. Paris, 1898, 91 (partly ; without description). 
Eastern ReGion : Delagoa Bay, Monteiro, 37! 
The fruit is, according to Mrs. Monteiro, edible, acid, and refreshing. 
3. L. capensis (Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1228); a climbing or 
rambling shrub with sensitive inflorescences acting as tendrils 3 all 
the young parts finely rusty-tomentose, ultimately glabrescent with 
the exception of the cymes, adult branehes reddish or greyish with 
few brown lenticels; leaves oblong to elliptic-oblong, obtuse at 
both ends or subacute at the base, 8-15 in. long, 4-8 lin. wide, 
coriaceous, dark green above, paler below, midrib slightly channelled 
above, raised below, lateral nerves 12-14 on each side, subhorizontal, 
faint; petiole about 13 lin. long; panicle on long or short peduncles, 
frequently reduced to a single, very dense, many-flowered eyme, the 
peduncles or the spreading or recurved branches often acting as 
tendrils ; flowers sessile or subsessile; calyx 11 to almost 2 lin. long, 
rusty-tomentose; sepals ovate-oblong, subobtuse; corolla white, 
sweet-scented ; tube widened below the middle, finely pubescent 
without, 5 lin. long ; lobes oblong to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 6—7 lin. 
long, margins ciliolate ; stamens inserted about 1+ lin. above the base 
of the corolla; ovary finely reddish-tomentose; fruit yellowish, of 
the size of a small peach, few-seeded; seeds rather flat, orbicular, 
5 lin. in diam. Dewtvre, Caoutch. Afr. Monogr. Landolph. 55; 
Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. Anstalt. 
Xvii. (1899), 3, Beth. 85. 
Katanari Reeton: Griqualand West ; Diamond Fields, Tuck, 4! Transvaal, 
ft.; Magalies Berg, Zeyher, 1186! Burke, 405! hills near Pretoria, 
Rehmann, 4295! McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3098! Bolus, 9702! Burtt Davy, 
2182! near Johannesburg, Adlam, 7! Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 1472! 
4. L. Kirkii (Dyer), var. delagoensis (Dewévre, Caoutch. Afric. 
Monogr. Landolph. 48) ; a seandent shrub; young branches fulvo- 
pubescent or finely tomentose, at length glabrescent, reddish-brown 
with small whitish lenticels; leaves lanceolate to oblong, usually 
gradually tapering into a short obtuse acumen, shortly acute or 
obtuse at the base, 3-11 in. long, 5-6 lin. broad, thinly coriaceous, 
very loosely pubescent on both sides (except the midrib which is 
generally densely pubescent to villous below), finally more or less 
glabrescent, chiefly above, glossy above ; midrib shallowly channelled 
above, prominent below ; secondary nerves-10-12 on each side, very 
slender, slightly oblique, like the delicate network of the veins 
slightly raised on both sides; marginal arches obscure; petiole 
slender, 2-3 lin, long; eorymbs dense, subsessile, many-flowered, 
