LXXXI. APOCYNEE. 2a 
nished with a 2-fid or 2-parted scale alternating with each 
lobe. Stamens inserted in the lower part of the tube; fila- 
ments linear, thickish ; anthers linear-sagittate, adhering to 
the stigma, mucronate or aristate, sometimes dorsally hispid. 
Disk 0. Carpels 2, ovoid or subglobose, many-ovuled ; style 
1; stigma capitate, cylindrical, ringed at base. Follicles (in 
S. Capensis) solitary, lanceolate-acuminate, rigid; seeds l- 
near-oblong, compressed, acute, with an ample, silky apical 
coma; embryo nearly as long as the horny albumen; radicle 
very long—DC. Prod. viii. p. 417. Also Christya, Ward 
and Harv. in Hook. Journ. Bot. w. p. 184. t. 21; DC. lie. 
416. 
Climbing or rarely erect African and Asiatic shrubs ; leaves opposite or 
whorled ; cymes terminal, laxly-flowered ; lobes of corolla 1-2 inches long, 
very narrow.—2 species; 1 in Caffraria, the other at Natal. 
8. ADENIUM, Reem. and Sch. 
Calyx 5-parted; the lobes lanceolate, glandular within. 
Corolla-tube cylindrical and narrow at base, then swollen, 
pubescent on both sides, the swollen part longer than the 
narrow, cylindrical-funnel-shaped; lobes shorter than the 
tube, obtuse. Stamens on the top of the narrow portion of 
the tube; anthers linear-sagittate, attached to the stigma, 
much longer than the filaments, 5 ovate glands circling ‘the 
ovary. Carpels 2, ovate, compressed, glabrous ; ovules many ; 
style 1; stigma capitate, 2-dentate, with a basal ring. Fol- 
licles? Seeds (in 4. Honghei, fide DC.) cylindrical-prismatic, 
comose at both ends, the lower coma less caducous.—DC. 
Prod. viii. p.411; Thes. Cap. t. 117. 
A. Namaquanum, Wy). (the “ Elephant’s Trunk ’’) is a singular shrub of 
Namaqualand, having a thick and fleshy trunk 5-6 feet high, tapering up- 
wards, tuberculated throughout, each tubercle armed with % long, straight 
spines ; the apex of the stem crowned with a tuft of obovate-oblong, obtuse, 
velvety, ribbed leaves 4-5 inches long, among which are short, few- 
flowered cymes of purple flowers. 
9. PACHYPODIUM, Lindl. 
Calyx 5-parted; lobes lanceolate, without internal basal 
glands or scales. Corolla with a 5-angled cylindrical or some- 
what funnel-shaped tube, externally puberulent, internally, be- 
low the insertion of the stamens, furnished with 5 reversely 
hairy lines, without scales; lobes 5, spreading. Anthers ses- 
sile above the middle of the tube, sagittate, with or without a 
terminal crest, attached to the stigma. Glands 5, fleshy, 
girding the ovary. Carpels 2, ovate, glabrous; ovules many ; 
style 1; stigma oblong, shortly 2-fid. Follicles compressed, 
