508 APOCYNACEH (Stapf). [ Voacanga. 
high; branches stout, almost spongy, pallid, or the youngest blackish 
when dry; leaves crowded towards the tips of the branches, oblong, 
obtuse, subcuneate towards the base, 4-6 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, 
subcoriaceous, dull when dry; secondary nerves subhorizontal or 
rather oblique, almost straight, slender; petiole 4-6 lin. long; 
inflorescences usually geminate from the braneh-forks, shortly racemi- 
form or umbelliform, few-flowered; peduncle stout, 2-3 in. long; 
rhachis stout, gradually lengthening up to 12 in. as the lower flowers 
fall; bracts ovate, concave, up to 5 lin. long, caducous; pedicels 
stout, finally up to 6 lin, long; calyx wide-tubular, about 41-6 lin. 
long, early circumseissile at the base, with very numerous glands 
within ; lobes rotundate, 11-2 lin. long; corolla waxy, yellowish 
white; tube subcylindric, slightly exserted from the calyx, more 
or less constricted above the middle, twisted above the constriction, 
glabrous ; limb broadly ovoid in bud, 6 lin. long; lobes somewhat 
asymmetric, broadly obcordate, narrow at the base, 6-9 lin. long, 
9-12 lin. broad, sinus shallow ; anthers inserted close to the mouth 
of the corolla, exserted for half their length, 3 lin. long; dise 
cupular, entire or almost so, shorter than the ovary, persistent ; 
style up to 7 lin. long ; stigma shortly cylindric, grooved, with a 
frill at the base; berries of the size of a fist (Sutherland), with a 
thick rind; seeds numerous. K. Schum. in Engl. § Prantl, Pflan- 
zenfam. iv. ii, 149; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 154. 
Annularia natalensis, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, 671. Piptolena 
Dregei, DC. Prodr. viii. 358; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 
246. Cyclostigma natalense, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 828. 
EAsiE8N ReGion: Natal; between Umtentu River and Umkomanzi River, 
Drége! forest near the Umlaas River, Krauss, 27! near Pinetown, Rehmann, 
8027! Wood, 3841! and without precise locality, Gueinzius! Gerrard, 408! 
Sutherland ! 
V. Dregei and V. obtusa, K. Schum., differ so little that the latter will 
probably have to be reduced to V. Dregei. 
IX. WRIGHTIA, R. Br. 
Calyx 4-3 lin. long, 5-lobed or more often of 5 free or almost 
free, obtuse, imbricate sepals, with 5-10 intracalycular glands. 
Corolla salver-shaped, small to over 1 in. long; tube cylindric, 
short, very rarely long and slender, with variously divided or entire, 
connate or free appendages in the throat (very rarely without) ; 
lobes overlapping to the left, obtuse or subobtuse, not tailed. 
Stamens inserted in the mouth of the corolla; anthers conniving in 
a cone, exserted, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sagittate; wings 
rather thin with thick incurved margins ; tails slender, long, in- 
curved ; foot of connective rather flat, with a decurrent dense line of 
hairs in the centre ; filaments short, stout, passing into long slender 
ridges on the corolla-tube. Dise 0. Carpels free; style filiform ; 
stigma capitate with a small or obscure frill at the base and a minute 
cleft tip, agglutinated to the hair-tuft of the anthers. Ovules 
