Conopharyngia. | APOCYNACEZ (Stapf). 507 
long, fleshy, covered with numerous suberous warts, at length dehis- 
cing ventrally. Zaberneemontana elegans, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 
1894, 24; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 316. 
Hastern ReoGion: Delagoa Bay, Monteiro, 55! and specimen cultivated in 
Durban Botanic Garden, Wood, 8598 ! 
Also in Hast Africa, as far as Mombasa. 
VIII. VOACANGA, Thouars. 
(TABERN&/ MONTANA, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 706 partly. Pirronana, 
Harv. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. (1842) 135, and in Hook. Lond. Journ, i. 25.) 
Calyx tubular or subcampanulate, 5-lobed, early circumscissile at 
the base and deciduous, or more persistent, tardily circumscissile or 
splitting longitudinally, with a ring or zone of (often numerous) 
small glands at or above the base ; lobes obtuse, imbricate. Corolla 
salver-shaped; tube staminiferous above the middle, constricted 
below the stamens and at the mouth, with callous thickenings round 
the often very narrow orifice, more or less twisted from left to right, 
very rarely straight, with prominent filamental ridges; lobes broad, 
obtuse, as long as or longer than the tube and more or less spreading, 
rarely much shorter and tightly reflexed, tips not inflexed in bud. 
Anthers sessile, adnate by a broad base to the. corolla-tube, deeply 
sagittate ; tips subulate, usually more or less exserted, or reaching 
close to the mouth; basal tails horny, slender, solid. Dise usually 
annular, very fleshy, surrounding the base of the ovary, or cupular 
and concealing the ovary, very rarely reduced to an inconspicuous 
ring, more or less confluent with the base of the ovary. Carpels 2, 
semi-ovoid or semi-globose, free, very rarely connate to the middle ; 
style columnar, thickened upwards; stigma subcapitate, 5-grooved 
with a fleshy wavy ring or frill at the base; ovules multiseriate, 
very numerous on bifid placentas. Mericarps baccate, globose or 
pear-shaped, more or less oblique, sometimes with short recurved 
beaks, sometimes very tardily dehiscing along the ventral suture ; 
pericarp thick and fleshy or thinner and coriaceous when dry. Seeds 
numerous, embedded in a pulpy mass, oblong-ellipsoid, deeply 
grooved ventrally; testa crustaceous, more or less grooved longi- 
tudinally, often coarsely honeycombed by transverse partitions across 
the grooves, more or less intruding into the endosperm ; endosperm 
fleshy ; cotyledons foliaceous, thin, ventrally concave, shorter than 
the radicle. 
. Shrubs or trees, dichotomously branched; leaf-buds sometimes coated with 
resin. Leaves opposite, herbaceous to coriaceous; axillary stipules distinct, like 
those of .Conopharyngia or quite obscure or 0; leaf-bases united into a rim or 
very short sheath ; axillary glands small, numerous. Flowers large to rather 
small, in terminal, frequently paired, peduncled, racemiform, umbelliform or 
corymbose inflorescences, usually from the young branch-forks. Corollas white, 
yellow or greenish or the limb violet-brown. 
 Disrris. Species 12, in Tropical Africa, Natal, and the Mascarene Islands, and 
about 4 in the Malay Archipelago. 
1. V. Dregei (E. Meyer, Comm. 189); a glabrous tree, 30-40 ft, 
