Carissa. | APOCYNACER (Stapf). 499 
in Flora, 1844, 827. C. bispinata (by error), Lewin in Virchow’s 
Arch. Path. Anat. u. Physiol. Bd. 134, 246. Arduina lispinosa, 
Linn. Mant. i. 52; Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 387; K. Schum. in Engl. ¢ 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 126; in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 315. 
A. erythrocarpa, Eckl. in South Afr. Quart. Journ. i. (1830), 372. 
A. hematocarpa, Eckl. lc. A. ferox, E. Meyer, Comm. 191; K. 
Schum. in Engl. § Prantl, lc. A. acuminata, E. Meyer, lc. K. 
Schum. in Engl. §& Prantl, lc. Lycium cordatum, Mill. Gard. 
Diet. ed. viii. (1768), no. 10. Jasminonerium acuminatum, J. 
bispinosum, J. erythrocarpum, J. feroz, J. hematocarpum, and J. 
oblongifolium, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 415. 
Coast Region: Swellendam Div.! between Rietkuil and Hemel-en-Aarde, 
Zeyher, 3415! Bredasdorp Div.; Elim, Schlechter, 9667! Mossel Bay Div. ; 
Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6305 ! George Div.; between Malgaten River and Great 
Brak River, Burchell, 6141! Uitenhage Div.; Zuurberg Range, at Bontjes 
River, Drege! Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 3414a! 3416! and without precise 
locality, Zeyher, 3808! 428! Albany Div.; between Assegai Bosch and the 
Bushmans River, Burchell, 4188! Grahamstown, Miss Daly, 61! MacOwan, 
2813! and in Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr. 760! Bathurst Div.; Blaauw Krantz, 
Burchell, 3679! between Blaauw Krantz and Kasuga River, Burchell, 3898! 
British Kaffraria, Cooper, 47! 
Centrat Reeton: Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3122! 3223! 3246! 
MacOwan, 1768! near the Little Fish River and Great Fish River, Drége! 
between Little Fish River and Commadagga, Burchell, 3287! 3288! Comma- 
dagga, Burchell, 3315 ! 3317! 
KaLawart Recion: Transyaal ; Klerksdorp, mountain summit, Nelson, 308 ! 
Houtbosch Berg, Nelson, 421! 
Eastern Recion: Pondoland; between St. Johns River and Umtsikaba 
River, below 1000 ft., Drége! Natal; Durban, Peddie! Inanda, Wood, 300! 
Nottingham, Buchanan, 187! between Pietermaritzburg and Newcastle, Wilms, 
2132! and without precise locality, Gueinzius ! Cooper, 1103! 1235! Sanderson ! 
Gerrard, 147! 
Extends to Rhodesia and British Central Africa. 
III. ACOKANTHERA, G. Don. 
(AcocantHerRA, K. Schum.) 
Calyx small, eglandular within ; sepals free or almost so, imbri- 
cate, acute or acuminate, more or less scarious. Corolla salver- 
shaped; tube slightly widened near the mouth ; lobes short, over- 
lapping to the left. (Stamens enclosed in the widened part of the 
tube ; anthers ovate-oblong, connective produced into a short 
minutely pilose point, shortly 2-lobed at and dehiscing to the base. 
Dise 0. Ovary entire, 2-celled ; style filiform; stigma short, conic 
or cylindric, with a ring of papillz at the base and a minutely 2-lobed 
hairy apiculus ; ovule 1 in each cell, pendulous, attached to the 
centre of the septum. Fruit a globose or ellipsoid berry. Seeds 
2, or 1 (by abortion), peltate, sessile on the septum, plano-convex ; 
hilum oblong, rather large ; endosperm bony; cotyledons broadly 
ovate or subcordate ; radicle superior. 
Unarmed shrubs or small trees, Leaves thickly coriaceous ; axillary stipules 
9; axillary glands 0 or very scanty and minute. Corymbs very shortly 
peduncled or sessile, axillary, often reduced to clusters; flowers subsessile, 
white or tinged with pink, usually a6 90 ae 
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