Wrightia. | APOCYNACEE (Stapf). - §09 
pluriseriate, numerous. Follicles cylindric or spindle-shaped, 
slender, subparallel, coriaceous. Seeds cylindric, glabrous with a 
basal tuft of hairs; endosperm fleshy, scanty ; cotyledons convolute ; 
radicle. short. 
Shrubs or small trees with slender branches, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves 
opposite, loosely nerved ; axillary stipules 0. Flowers small to rather large and 
then very showy, in terminal or pseudo-axillary cymes. 
Distrip. Species about 20, all except the one below, in the warmer parts of 
Asia and Northern Australia. 
1. W. natalensis (Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1907, 51); a shrub; 
branches rusty-pubescent when quite young, soon glabrous and ulti- 
mately covered with a fine grey bark, scantily lenticellate ; leaves 
lanceolate, subacute, cuneate at the base, up to 3 in. long to 9 lin. 
broad (not quite mature), rusty-pubescent on the back towards the 
base, otherwise quite glabrous ; secondary nerves about 9 on each side ; 
petiole slender, 2—4 lin. long; panicle short, subcorymbose, not over 
1 in. across, rusty-pubescent ; bracts linear-oblong to linear, 1}—2 lin. 
long ; pedicels up to 4 lin. long; calyx pubescent at the base, other- 
wise almost glabrous, 23-3 lin. long; sepals oblong, obtuse, margins 
membranous, each with 1 fleshy scale within; corolla yellow, densely 
and minutely papillose without; tube 2 lin. long; lobes oblong, 
subobtuse, 4 lin. long with 5 epipetalous emarginate scales which are 
united for half their length into a short corona and bear each 2 
filiform appendages shorter than the scales; anthers 2 lin. long, 
finely acuminate. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Umzinyati Falls, 800 ft., Haygarth in Herb. 
Wood, 7861! 
I have placed this plant in Wrightia rather than in Pieioceras on account of 
the general appearance, which is more that of a Wrightia, but it is quite possible 
that the fruit, when known, will prove it to be a Pletoceras. 
X. STROPHANTHUS, DC. 
Calyz middle-sized to large, herbaceous, rarely scarious, with few 
to many glands at the base within; sepals 5, imbricate, sometimes 
foliaceous. Corolla funnel-shaped or campanulate, with a short or 
long cylindric basal tube ; mouth with paired appendages alternating 
with the lobes; lobes 5, acuminate or produced into very long 
filiform tails, rarely obtuse. Stamens inserted at the upper end of 
the cylindrie portion of the corolla-tube; anthers conniving in a 
eone and projecting into the widened part of the tube, lanceolate, 
acuminate or sometimes produced into a long bristle, sagittate ; 
wings long, firm, obtusely edged; tails short; foot of connective 
with a central tuft of closely packed hairs in the upper part and a 
more or less hairy longitudinal crest below it; filaments distinct 
but short, filiform, passing into a prominent, more or less hairy 
ridge decurrent on the corolla-tube. Dise 0. Carpels 2, free ; 
style filiform; stigma capitate, 5-grooved, with a membranous 
reflexed frill at the base, and a minutely bifid apiculus ; ovules 
