504 APOCYNACER (Stapf). [| Gonioma, 
in. wide; seeds (ineluding wings) 7-9 lin. long, 3-3} lin. wide; 
embryo 3 lin. long. DC. Prodr. viii. 388; L. Planchon, Prod. 
Apocyn. 185, 259; K. Schum. in Engl. §& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 137; F. Miller, Select. Extratrop. Pl. ed. ix. 241; Sim, 
For. Fl. Cape Col. 271, t. cx. G. Kamassi, var. brachycarpum, LE. 
Meyer, l.c. 189. Gonioma, Harv. Gen. South Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 246. 
Tabernemontana Camassi, Eckl. in South Afr. Quart. Journ. 1. 
(1830), 371. 
Coast Recion: George Div. ; near George, Burchell, 6044! 6071! Knysna 
Div. ; Bosch River, Drége! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, in forest, 
1000 ft., MacOwan, 1055! Zeyher, 730! near Sand Fontein and Matjes Fontein, 
Drége! Galgebosch, Drége ! in the forests. of Krakakamma and Adow, Zeyher, 
730! between Van Stadens River and Galgebosch, Burchell, 4676! Bathurst 
Div. ; between Blaauw Krantz and Kowie Port, Burchell, 3659! near Barville 
Park, Burchell, 4188! Hast London Div.; near East London, Wood in Herb. 
polos 3352! Leighton in MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Af?., 
36 . 
This yields the hard, yellow Kamassi wood. 
VI. LOCHNERA, Reichb. 
(Vinca, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 703 partly.) 
Calyx middle-sized, herbaceous, eglandular within; sepals 5, 
subulate, scareely imbricate. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube slender, 
eylindrie, slightly widened below the constricted eallous velvety 
mouth ; lobes overlapping to the left. Stamens in the widened part 
of the corolla-tube ; filaments very 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. Disc 
replaced by two long linear glands alternating with the carpels. 
Carpels 2, free; style filiform ; stigma slightly below the level of 
the anthers, depressed-capitate, viscous with a long byaline reflexed 
frill at the base and a minute obtuse 2-lobed apiculus surrounded by 
a very short erect membranous rim; ovules numerous, 2-seriate. 
Mericarps follicular, cylindric, slightly spreading. Seeds numerous, 
small; testa rugose; hilum lateral; endosperm flesby ; cotyledons 
oblong, flat, shorter than the thick radicle. 
Annual or perennial herbs or small undershrubs ; leaves opposite ; axillary 
stipules 0; axillary glands numerous in a fringe, the outer long, filiform, the 
inner minute. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired, white or pink. 
Distris. Species 3, indigenous in tropical America, India and Madagascar. 
One species widely diffused as a weed throughout the tropical and subtropical 
regions of both hemispheres, 
1. L. rosea (Reichb. Conspectus, 134); a small undershrub, up 
to 3 ft. high; leaves obovate or oblong (rarely subacute) and apieu- 
late, acute at the base, 11-3 in. long, 3-12 in. broad, herbaceous, 
finely pubescent to tomentose; petioles 1-4 lin. long; pedicels up 
to 1 lin. long, pubescent; corolla white or pink ; tube puberulous, 
1 in. long; lobes broad, obliquely obovate, apiculate, $ in. long ; 
follicles up to 11 in. long, spreadingly pubescent, striate. Schnizl. 
