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obtuse or pointed. Ovary 2-celled, glabrous, with a thick 
septum; ovules few; style thickened upwards; stigma 2- 
lobed, hairy, falling off. Berry globose or ovoid (eatable), 
few- or 1-seeded; seeds peltate, scabrous.—DC. Prod. vii. p. 
331. 
Milky shrubs with forked, spreading branches, opposite, rigid leaves and 
forked or twice-forked spines in the forks of the branches. Peduncles di- 
chotomous, often terminal ; flowers white, sweet-scented. Fruit very deli- 
cious, plum-like.—3 or 4 species, in the Eastern districts and at Natal. 
2. TOXICOPHLGA, Harv. 
Calyx 5-parted, with an obsolete, crenate disk inside at 
base, outside the corolla; lobes short. Corolla-tube much 
longer than the calyx, cylindrical, slightly swollen in the 
throat, thinly hairy within; limb of 5 short, ovate, unequal- 
sided, imbricated lobes. Stamens 5, in the throat, included ; 
anthers longer than the filaments, cordate. Ovary 2-celled ; 
ovules solitary; style elongate, filiform; stigma conico-capi- 
tate, 2-fid. Berry ovoid, 1- rarely 2-seeded.— DC. Prod. viii. p. 
336; Harv. Thes. t. 16. 
Unarmed trees or large shrubs, with poisonous bark. Leaves opposite, 
rigid, penninerved, glabrous. Flowers in dense, axillary fascicles ; corolla- 
tube 4-7 in. long ; limb 1 line long.—2 species, in the Eastern district and 
at Natal. 
3. RAUWOLFIA, Plum. 
Calyx 5-parted or 5-fid; the lobes not glandular, often ob- 
tuse. Corolla 5-fid or semi-5-fid; tube cylindrical, wider at 
base and apex, mostly hairy within, the throat especially so; 
lobes twisted to the right. Stamens inserted in the middle of 
the corolla-tube or above it; anthers lanceolate, longer than 
the filaments, A cup-like disk, often crenate, girding the 
ovary. Ovary 2-celled, of 2 imperfectly cohering carpels; 
ovules 2-5 in each cell; style about equalling the ovary ; 
stigma capitate, hairy, 2-fid. Drupe didymous, subglobose, 
with 2 more or less connate bony cells.—DC. Prod. viii. p. 
336 ; Sond. in Linn. xxiii. p. 77. 
Shrubs or small trees, chiefly American, with opposite or whorled leaves, 
and terminal, peduncled cymes or umbels. Flowers small.—2 species, found 
at Magalisberg and Natal. 
4. PIPTOLAINA, Harv. 
Calyx tubular-bellshaped, at base within muricated with 
glands ; lobes ovate, obtuse ; tube after flowering falling off by 
a circular slit alittle above its base. Corolla somewhat funnel- 
shaped, its tube much more slender than the calyx and 
scarcely longer, swollen in the throat ; lobes obliquely ovate, 
