516 APOCYNACE® (Stapf). [ Pachypodium. 
distant; petiole indistinct ; flowers in scanty cymes from the axils 
of the leaves, on short villous peduncles; bracts oblong, acute, 
6 lin. long, villous, with membranous margins ; pedicels very short ; 
ealyx 4-5 lin. long; sepals resembling the braets in structure and 
shape; corolla reddish, tinged with yellow and green, tubular, 
slightly widened upwards, loosely pubescent without; tube about 
1 in. long, silky just above the stamens and along five lines below 
them; lobes ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 3 lin. long.; stamens inserted 
31 lin. above the corolla base, 3 lin. long. Adenium namaquanum, 
— Wyley in Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 11, t. 117; Paters. Trav, 124 with 
plate. 
Western Rearon: Great Namaqualand ; by the “ Lions River,” a tributary 
¢ a Orange River, Paterson! Little Namaqualand ; without precise locality, 
Vyley! 
2. P. Saundersii (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1892, 126); a 
shrub, up to 4-5 ft. high with a ball-shaped bole rising little above 
the ground and densely spinous branches, 3-4 lin. thick, succulent, 
glabrous, covered with a thin, papery, greyish bark ; leaves sub- 
sessile, obovate to obovate-elliptic, acute, constricted towards the 
base, with spinulous margins, 11-3 in. long, 8_]1 in. broad, thin 
when dried, glabrous with the exception of the sparingly hairy 
midrib; stipules spiny, strong, up to 14 in. long; cymes sessile, 
several-flowered, contracted ; pedicels hardly any-; calyx 23"lin. long ; 
sepals ovate, acutely acuminate ; corolla white, tinged with pink ; 
tube 1{-1} in. long, narrow below the stamens (for 5-6 lin.), 
widened above them, then attenuate towards the mouth, hairy 
within ; lobes obliquely obovoid, much narrowed at the base, almost 
1 in. long and wide ; follicles spindle-shaped, 5 in. long ; seeds about 
3 lin. long, ovate in outline, coma 1—14 in. long. 
Eastern Reeton: Zululand; South-eastern Lebombo Mountains, in very 
stony places, Saunders ! 
3. P. bispinosum (DC. Prodr. viii. 424); a shrub of moderate 
height, branched ; branches 2-3 lin. thick, the youngest pubescent, 
soon glabrous, the old covered with smooth, papery bark; leaves 
scattered on long shoots and in sessile fascicles (short shoots), the 
latter from axils of the former, all lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, 
with margins recurved, up to 1 in. long to 23 lin. broad, coriaceous, 
minutely asperulous above, loosely hirsute below, particularly along 
the midrib; stipules spiny, those of the long shoots spreading, 
1_8 (rarely to 1) in. long, fine, springing from an almost square leaf- 
cushion, usually under 1 lin. high, those of the short shoots much 
shorter; cymes few- to 1-flowered, terminal on the long and short 
shoots and hence often apparently axillary, sessile ; bracts small, 
lanceolate to subulate, deciduous ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, glabrous ; 
calyx 12 lin, long, glabrous or scantily puberulous ; sepals ovate, 
acute to acuminate; corolla, infra-staminal part cylindric, slender, 
3 lin. long, gradually passing into the upper funnel-shaped portion, 
