Voacanga| LXXXII, APOCYNACER. 669: 
tree-shaped shrub, 6 to 9 ft. high, lactescent ; branches dichotomous, 
the older ones cylindrical, the younger obscurely quadrangular, the 
youngest ones compressed, two-edged ; calyx campanulate, herbaceous- 
green, 5-cleft, loosely embracing the corolla, the tube multiglandular 
at the base inside, the lobes oblong-elliptical and spreading or reflected ; 
corolla hypogynous, salver-shaped, sulphur-coloured throughout, the 
tube inflated, spirally twisted dextrorsely, constricted at the throat, 
the lobes oblong, sinistrorsely contorted in estivation, afterwards 
spread out, oblique ; stamens 5, inserted on the upper part of the 
corolla-tube, the tips only exserted ; anthers sagittate, hard, almost 
cartilaginous, connivent into a pyramid by their very subulate tips, the 
divisions at their base diverging; pistil surrounded by a thick hypo- 
gynous ring, consisting of 2 mammiform ovaries which laterally coalesce 
and from the centre of coalescence of which the style arises ; style: 
simple, rather thick, gradually thickened upwards, bearing at the top 
in a patelliform dilation the capituliform shortly stalked stigma ; ovules 
very numerous in each ovary, attached to the suture. In the more 
elevated forests of the Alto Queta mountains ; fl. May, beginning of 
Oct., and Nov. 1855. No. 5931. 
Cf. Baillon in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. p. 778 (1889). 
2. V. Thouarsii Roem. & Schultes, Syst. iv. p. 439 (1819). 
V. obtusa K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2. 
p. 149 (1895), and in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 226 (1896). 
AmpBaca,—A small tree, 12 to 18 ft. high ; trunk 4 in. in diameter ; 
branches patent ; branchlets dichotomous ; leaves opposite, fasciculate 
towards the ends of the branchlets, lactescent as well as the branches ; 
flowers large, whitish, very pleasantly fragrant; corolla fleshy. In 
moist deep valleys and along streams from N-gombe in the direction 
of Puri-Cacarambola, here and there ; fl. middle of Oct.1856. No. 5977. 
10. TABERNZMONTANA Plumier, L.; Benth. & Hook, f. 
Gen. PI. ii. p. 706. 
1. T. longiflora Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 447 (1849). 
Tabernemontana sp., Welw. in Bol. Conselho Ultramar. Lisb., 
No. 7, p. 82 (Aug. 1854). 
Srerra LeoNE.—A robust, lactescent, much-branched, very elegant 
shrub ; leaves coriaceous, evergreen, glossy, pallid beneath; flowers 
whitish, very pleasantly fragrant ; fruit as large as an orange, geminate- 
didymous, furrowed in the middle; seeds numerous. In elevated 
thickets near Freetown ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 5987. A small 
tree ; seeds, Sept. 1853, Coun. Carp. 718. 
2. T, angolensis Stapf in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 23. 
Apocynacea, Welw. Apontam. p. 588, n. 55 (1859). 
Punco ANDONGO.—A moderate-sized tree, up to 26 ft. high, spiny ; 
head lax ; leaves thickly coriaceous, glossy ; flowers large, white, salver- 
shaped, very agreeably fragrant; mericarps 2 together, as large as 
an orange, spherical. On the shady sides of rocks throughout the 
presidium, plentiful ; fl. and ripe as well as young fr. usually occurring 
at the same time ; fl. Dec. 1856. No. 5989. A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. 
high, evergreen, with the habit of the genus ; leaves coriaceous ; flowers 
large, white, fragrant; mericarps orange-shaped, geminate. In the 
forests of the presidium ; seeds May 1857. Conn. Carp. 731. Fruit 
geminate, like an orange; May 1857. Cou. Carp, 722. A small, 
