Rauwolfia.| APOCYNACEA (Stapf). 503 
when dry ; leaves in whorls 3-4, oblanceolate, acute or subacuminate, 
long attenuated towards the base and more or less decurrent on the 
petiole, 5-12 in. long, 11-21 in. broad, firmly membranous, pale 
dull green ; secondary nerves 18-30 on each side, slightly curved, 
subhorizontal ; veins quite obscure or very faint, loosely anastomos- 
ing ; petiole 2-12 lin. long, stout; cymes very dense, at the ends 
of the secondary rays of large umbels; peduncle 2-3} in. long, 
stout ; primary rays 1-2 in. long; secondary rays 3-6 lin. long ; 
pedicels in flower up to 3 lin. long, in fruit up to 1 lin. long; calyx 
= lin. long; lobes broad, ovate, subacute ; corolla-tube about 2 lin. 
long, densely villous at the mouth; lobes small, rounded; carpels 
connate at the base or half-way up in flower; fruit a more or less 
obovoid or subglobose drupe, 4 lin. long (semimature). K. Schum. 
in Lingl. § Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 154; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. iv. i. 111; Sim, For. Fl, Cape Col. 270, t. clvi. 
Eastern Reeion: Pondoland; through the Hgossa Forest to Port S. John, 
ex Sim. Natal; by the Umzinyati River, Wood, 648! and without precise 
locality, Bowker! Gerrard, 1585! 
Locally known as the Quinine-tree. Also in Tropical Africa. 
V. GONIOMA, E. Meyer. 
Calyx small, eglandular within, more or less herbaceous ; sepals 5, 
free, imbricate, obtuse. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube cylindric, 
scarcely widened above the middle; mouth constricted, without 
appendages, glabrous ; lobes 5, overlapping to the left, auricled at 
the base of the inner half. Stamens inserted at the middle of the 
corolla-tube ; filaments filiform, short; anthers free from the stigma, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, shortly and obtusely 2-lobed at the base ; 
anther-cells polliniferous and dehiscing to the base. Disc0. Carpels 
2, free, glabrous ; style filiform ; stigma cylindric-oblong, exannular, 
apiculus subulate; ovules numerous in each cell, pluriseriate, 
Mericarps 2, follicular, coriaceous, oblong or linear-oblong, apiculate, 
subterete, straight or slightly curved. Seeds pluriseriate, imbricate, 
quite flat, broad-cuneate or rectangular, with a broad wing at each 
end ; nucleus elliptic, oblique or subhorizontal in the middle of the 
seed ; endosperm fleshy ; cotyledons flat, ovate, slightly longer than 
the cylindric radicle. ° 
A glabrous shrub with opposite or 3-4-nate, coriaceous, shining leaves ; 
axillary stipules 0; axillary glands few, minute. Inflorescences terminal, 
densely corymbose ; flowers small. 
Distris. Species 1, endemic. 
1. G. Kamassi (E. Meyer, Comm. 189) ; leaves oblong to lanceo- 
late, acute to subobtuse, attenuated into the short petiole, 13-83 in. 
long, 3-1 in. wide, lateral nerves usually quite obseure, 12-15 on 
each side, oblique; petiole 2-4 lin. long; corymbs subsessile, up to 
1; in. in diam. ; pedicels slender, 13-21 lin. long; calyx 1 lin. long ; 
corolla yellow, fragrant ; tube 3-3} lin. long ; lobes orbicular, over 
1 lin. in diam.; anthers 3 lin. long; follicles 1-23 lin. long, 4-5 
