500 ApocyNnacem® (Stapf). [ Acokanthera. 
DisTR1B. Species 3, in Tropical Africa and South Africa, 1 extending to Arabia. 
Leaves not more than twice as long as broad; corolla- 
tube 34-5 lin, long re ae ate a < 
Leaves about three times as long as broad ; corolla-tube 
79lin: long 3. “ vs wee wae (2): spectadilis. 
(1) venenata. 
1, A, venenata (G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 485) ; ashrubora gnarled 
tree, up to 14 ft. high, glabrous (except sometimes the inflorescence) ; 
young branches compressed or ancipitous, smooth; leaves mostly 
ovate or elliptic, sometimes oblong, rarely lanceolate, acute and 
usually mucronulate, rarely obtuse, acute at the base, 11-4 in. long, 
32 jn. broad, pale or olive-green when dry, somewhat shining 
above or on both sides; secondary nerves 6-10 on each side, often 
with similar interposed tertiary nerves, oblique, parallel, prominent 
on both sides ; veins distinct or obscure; petiole stout, 1-2 lin. long ; 
clusters glabrous or puberulous, sessile or subsessile, usually many- 
flowered ; bracts ovate, brown or the upper pinkish ; calyx glabrous 
or puberulous, 1 lin. long; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to 
subacuminate, distinctly to very obscurely ciliolate ; corolla white to 
pink, sweet-scented ; tube 33-5 lin. long, puberulous or glabrous 
without, hairy within ; lobes broad-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, 
somewhat over 1 lin. long; anthers 1—% lin. long; stigma short, 
obtuse, conic; berry globose, 1 in. in diam., purplish-black ; seeds 
semi-globose or semi-ellipsoid, 4-6 lin. long. Vatke ex Schweinf. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 41, 46 (footnote) ; Holmes in Pharm. 
Journ. ser. 3, xxiv. 42; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii, 126 (not of Schweinf. ex Lewin in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 
41, 46, and Lewin, l.c. 49-51, 47, fig. A. nor L. Planchon, Prod. 
Apocyn. 255, nor Vogtherr in Kohler, Mediz. Pfl. iii. t. 64) ; Stapf 
in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 94; Sim, For, Fl. Cape Col. 270, 
t. eliv. fig. 1. A. Lamarkit, G. Don, le. A. Schimpert, Schweinf. 
in Boll. Soc. Afr. Italia, x. (1891) xi.-xii. 12 (the Taita plant) ; 
Paz in Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. B. 519 (the Tata plant). A. abyssinica, 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. A. 48 (partly ?). Cestrum 
venenatum, Thunb. Prodr. 36; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 193. .¢. 
oppositifolium, Lam. Ill. ii. 5, t. 112, fig. 2; Poir. Suppl. ii. 182. 
Toxicophlea Thunbergii, Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 24, 
and Thes. Cap. 10, t. 16. 7. cestroides, A.DC. Prodr. viii. 336. 
Sideroxylum toxiferum, Thunb. Trav. ed. 3, i. 156. 
Coast ReGion: Mossel Bay Div.; near Mossel Bay, Burchell, 6228 ! 6300 ! 
George Div.; near Kaymans River Gat, Drége/ Knysna Div. ; near the 
Bitou River, Burchell, 5803! near the Goukamma River, Burchell, 5603 | near 
Knysna River Ford, Burchell, 5541! Uitenhage Div. ; Zuur Berg, Cooper, 
1549! and without precise locality, Zeyher, 1184! Albany Div. ; Grahamstown, 
MacOwan, 433! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1549! near the mouth of 
the Kowie River, MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 814! Bathurst Div. ; 
at the mouth of the Great Fish River, Burchell, 3747! Queenstown Div. ; 
Finchams Nek, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1888! Eastern districts, Cooper, 49! 
Katauart ReGion: Transvaal; near Pretoria, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5700 ! 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 982! and without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 1391 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
