496 APOCYNACE (Stapf). | Landolphia. 
about 2 in. across, fulvo-pubescent or finely tomentose all over; 
bracts minute, ovate; pedicels very short; calyx scarcely 1 lin. 
long; sepals ovate, acute or subacute, membranous except the 
acutely edged midrib, pubescent; corolla whitish ; tube cylindric 
below to the middle, then much inflated and distinetly constricted 
close to the mouth, up to 2 lin. long, minutely pubescent without 
in the upper half; lobes linear-oblong, subacute, as long as the 
tube, finely pubescent without along the middle, mouth very narrow, 
very minutely pubescent ; stamens in the upper third of the tube; 
anthers linear-oblong, acute; ovary ovoid, glabrous; style and 
stigma about 1 lin. long, the latter cylindric from a thieker base, 
bifid; fruit obovoid-globose, 11-3 in. in diam.; seels angular, 6-8 
lin. long, numerous. Jumelle, Pl. a Caoutch. et a Gutta, 320. L. 
delagoensis, Pierre in Bull. Linn. Soc. Paris, 1898, 15; Warburg, 
Kautschulpfl. 120 (French transl. 236). 
Eastern Reaion: Delagoa Bay, Monteiro, 3! Junod. 
This variety, like the typical form, yields an excellent rubber, and it is also 
known by the same name, viz, “ pink rubber” (Pierre, I.c.). It differs from the 
type only in the much smaller size of the leaves, 
II. CARISSA, Linn. 
Calyx small, eglandular, very rarely multiglandular within ; 
sepals 5, very rarely 4, free or nearly so, imbricate, acute or acumi- 
nate. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube slightly widened below the mouth 
or near the middle; lobes usually overlapping to the right, rarely to 
the left. Stamens enclosed in the widened part of the corolla-tube ; 
filaments short, slender; anthers oblong, acute; cells obtuse at the 
base, polliniferous and dehiscing to the base. Disc 0. Ovary entire, 
2-celled ; ovules 1-4 in each cell, from the middle of the septum, 
rarely more in 2-3 rows; style filiform; stigma at the level of the 
anthers, or rarely some way below them, oblong, papillose and 
viscous, with a 2-lobed hairy tip. rut baccate, globose to oblong. 
Seeds usually 1-4, rarely more, peltate, plano-convex; hilum 
central; endosperm horny ; cotyledons ovate; radicle superior. 
Much branched, straggling and usually very spinous shrubs or small trees, 
rarely climbing ; spines opposite, simple, rarely forked, often very stout. 
Leaves coriaceous, very variable in the same individual ; axillary stipules 0; 
axillary glands very minute and few, or 0. Inflorescence often umbelliform, or 
corymbiform, and much contracted, terminal or pseudo-axillary, rarely cymose, 
lax and few-flowered; flowers subsessile, white or tinged with pink. Berries 
often edible. ; 
DistR1B. Species about 19, extending into the tropics of the Old World and 
Australia, £ 
§ 1. Ev-Carissa. Corolla-lobes overlapping to the right ; ovules 1—4 in each 
cell; spines simp!e. : 
Only South African species oe “a wi ... (1) edulis. 
§ 2, ArDUINA. Corolla-lobes overlapping to the left; ovules 1 to many in 
each cell ; spines bifurcate. 
