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spreading ; anthers in the throat, sagittate, conniving (but not 
cohering) in a half-exserted cone, tipped with empty crests 
filaments very short. An annular disk girding the ovary. 
Carpels 2, separate ; style single, cup-like at the summit, with 
2 retrorsely barbed appendages; stigma 2-lobed. Follicles 2, 
berry-like, widely spreading, with thick rind. Seeds many, 
ovoid, nude, lying in pulp.—DC. Prod. viii. p. 357. 
P. Dregei is a large tree, growing in swamps at Natal. Leaves opposite, 
with an interpetiolar ring, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Flowers yellowish- 
white, handsome, in terminal cymes. 
5. TABERNA MONTANA, Plum. 
Calyx 5-parted, with linear glands inside at the base of the 
lobes. Corolla salver-shaped; tube inflated below or above, 
mostly narrower in the middle ; throat nude, rarely glandular ; 
lobes obtuse. Stamens in the swollen part of corolla-tube ; 
anthers on very short filaments, mostly sagittate, taper- 
pointed, rarely linear, mostly included. Disk 0. Carpels 2, 
separate, appressed, glabrous ; style simple, glabrous ; stigma 
among the anthers, with a basal ring, capitate, 2-lobed.  Fol- 
licles 2 or 1, linear-oblong or subglobose, more or less fleshy, 
pulpy; ovules many ; seeds few or many, lying in pulp.—DC. 
Prod. vii. p. 361. 
Tropical trees and shrubs; branches often forked. Leaves opposite, the 
petioles short, often expanded or connate at base in false interpetiolar 
stipules. Cymes axillary and often in terminal pairs; flowers white or 
yellow.—2 species, at Natal. 
6. GONIOMA, E. Mey. 
Calyx 5-parted; lobes glandless, ovate, obtuse, crenulate. 
Corolla salver-shaped, the tube from the middle rather wider 
and angular, constricted at the summit, hairy within from the 
middle to the apex; throat without appendage ; lobes ovate- 
cordate, obtuse. Stamens 5, inserted a little above the middle 
of the tube; anthers oblong, 2-lobed at base, obtuse, much 
longer than the very slender filaments. Disk 0. Carpels 2, 
subconnate at base, ovoid-acute, glabroys; style 1; stigma 
ovoid-oblong, 2-lobed. Follicles terete, widely spreading ; 
seeds flat, with an oblong, encircling netted wing.—DC. Prod. 
vill. p. 387. 
An erect, glabrous undershrub, with opposite, narrow, leathery leaves, and 
terminal cymes of yellow flowers.—Native of the Northern frontier. 
7. STROPHANTHUS, DC. 
Calyx 5-parted ; the lobes at base within furnished with 
glands. Corolla with a funnel-shaped tube, its lobes linear- 
subulate, much longer than the tube, broad-based ; throat fur- 
