Pachypodium.| APOCYNACE (Stapf). 517 
the whole tube 6-9 lin. long, purple, hairy within below the stamens ; 
limb 5-7 lin. across; lobes white to purple (the outer half), broad 
elliptic, rounded at the tips ; anthers almost 2 lin. long; disc deeply 
5-lobed, as high as the ovary; follicles unknown. chites bis- 
pinosa, Linn. f. Suppl. 167; Thunb. Prodr. 37, in Nov. Act. Imp. 
Soc. Sc. Petersb. xiv. (1805), 505, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 232 ; 
Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 69. Belonites bispinosa, EH. Meyer, Comm. 
188. P. glabrum, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 77. 
Coast Reeton: Uitenhage Div.; between Gamtoos River and Sundays 
River, Thunberg ; between Uitenhage and Alzoa Bay, Burchell, 4281! near 
the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 261! Albany Div.; without precise locality, 
gall Bathurst Div.; between Blaauw Krantz and Kowie River, Burchell, 
Centra Recion: Graaff Reinet Div. ; dry rocky hills near Graaff Reinet, 
2500-4000 ft., Bolus, 113! Somerset Div. ; between the Zuurberg Range and 
Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, Drége ! 
4. P. succulentum (DC. Prodr. viii. 424); a shrub, 1-2 ft. 
high with a tuberous base rising about } ft. above the ground, as 
thick as a man’s arm, brownish, producing several more or less 
branched stems; branches finally greyish-tomentellous when young, 
later on covered with a thin smooth brownish bark; leaves scattered 
on long shoots and in sessile fascicles (short shoots), the latter from 
the axils of the former, all linear or oblong-linear, obtuse or (rarely) 
acute, with recurved margins, 13 in. long, 2-3 lin. broad, sub- 
coriaceous, green and pubescent above, pale and tomentose below ; 
stipules 3 (1 intrapetiolar), spiny, the lateral 2 of the long shoots 
spreading, 1-1 in. long, the intrapetiolar shorter and erect, all 
three rising from a conspicuous decurrent leaf-cushion, those of the 
short shoots shorter, rapidly decreasing towards the base of the 
shoots; cymes terminal, sessile, contracted, few-flowered, finely 
tomentose ; bracts subulate or lanceolate, small, early deciduous ; 
pedicels 4—6 lin. long; calyx 3 lin. long, finely tomentellous; sepals 
narrow-lanceolate, acuminate ; corolla-tube cylindric, pubescent with- 
out, purple, slender, infra-staminal part 2-3 lin. long, with 5 hairy 
ridges below the stamens, supra-staminal very slightly wider, 4-6 
lin. long ; limb to more than 1 in. across ; lobes white and purple 
(the outer half), oblong, contracted into a distinct claw at the base, 
6-10 lin. long, obtuse; anthers 2-23 lin. long; disc 5-partite, 
shorter than the ovary ; follicles spindle-shaped, long acuminate, 
over 2in. long. Echites succulenta, Thunb. Prodr. 37, in Nov. Act. 
Imp. Soc. Sc. Petersb, xiv. (1805) 505, t. 9, fig. 2, and Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 232; Jacg. Fragm. 74, t. 117. Belonites succulenta, E. 
Meyer, Comm. 187. P. tomentosum, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 78. 
Barleria rigida, Spreng. ex Schlecht. in Linnea, xiv. 304. 
Coast Region: Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4410! and 
without precise locality, Zeyher, 282! Albany Div.; between Sidbury and the 
Bushmans River, Burchell, 4181! Bothas Hill, near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 
1151! and without precise locality, Bowker ! Stockenstrom Div. ; Katberg, 
Miss Sole, 480! Div.? Karroo between Gauritz River and Sundays River, 
Thunberg. 
