676 LXXXII, APOCYNACES. | Pachypodium 
17. PACHYPODIUM Lindl. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 722. 
1. P. Lealii Welw. in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxvii. p. 43, t. 16 (1869), 
Bumso.—A small tree, 10 to 18 ft. high, with a curious cactus-like 
habit, 8 to 16 in. in diameter at the base of its trunk, bristling on all 
sides with tripartite purple spines; trunk conical, tapering, simple 
below, sparingly and patently branched towards the apex; juice 
scarcely milky, watery-resinous ; leaves none seen at the time of the 
inflorescence except the bracts ; flowers large, handsome, bicolorous, 
fragrant, corymbose, fasciculate, occurring during nearly the whole year, 
but only in summer bearing fruit; calyx 5-cleft, the lobes ovate, 
imbricate ; corolla-tube bearded inside below the insertion of the 
stamens, naked above, inflated in the middle ; the limb 5-cleft ; the 
segments rosy purple outside, white inside, unequal-sided, one side 
entire, the other larger and undulate-crisp; stamens 5, included ; 
filaments short or nearly obsolete ; anthers bilocular, sagittate ; the 
cells opposite, shorter than the produced connective, confluent at the 
base, converging towards the apex and there surmounted by the 
apiculate tip of the nearly flat scarcely subulate connective ; style 
straight, filiform; stigma thick, mitriform, perforated with 1 or 2 
apertures at the truncate top ; follicles compressed-cylindrical, geminate, 
about 7 in. long or less, purple ; seeds divaricately comose at the apex. 
In very dry rocky thickets between Quitibe de Baixo and Quitibe de 
Cima, common ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859 and fl, 14 June 1860. No. 1510. 
LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADE. 
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1. CRYPTOLEPIS R. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl, ii. p. 740. 
Ectadiopsis Benth, in Benth. & Hook, f., l.c., p. 741. 
1. C. microphylla Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, No. 101, 
p. 84 (804) (1890). 
GoLuNnGo ALTO.—A slender, widely climbing, lactescent shrub ; 
branches and branchlets reflected patent ; epidermis thinly verrucose, 
scaling off ; leaves very densely beset with glandular dots, dark green 
above, subglabrous and glaucous beneath; calyx very shortly cam- 
panulate, 5-dentate, tomentellous, green ; corolla somewhat salver- 
shaped, whitish ; the tube dilated above the base ; the lobes of the 
limb 5, long, lanceolate, obtuse, spirally convolute towards the left 
(as seen from above) in estivation, at the time of the open flower 
soon corrugated and crisp ; stamens 5, inserted a little above the base 
of the corolla-tube, included ; filaments very thinly membranous, 
green; anthers lance-shaped, with the rather broad connective 
agglutinated to the stigma, 2-celled, the cells bordering the more or 
less ovate-acuminate connective ; ovary globose, sessile, green, sub- 
bilobed ; styles 2, terminating ina large peltate-hemispherical glutinous 
stigma. In the shady primitive forests of Alto Queta, rare ; fl. middle 
of Jan. 1856. No.5939. A scandent, milky shrub. Queta mountains ; 
fl-bud Feb. No. 5940. 
2. C. triangularis N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 92 (1894), 
PunGo ANDoNGO.—A twining, widely-climbing shrub, abounding 
_ in ablood-red resinous juice, with the habit of Strophanthus intermedius 
Pax; leaves thinly and softly coriaceous, deep green without gloss 
above, greenish-yellowish beneath ; flowers pale orange-yellow ; scales 
of the corona 5, broadly triangular, horizontally declined, exactly 
closing the corolla-throat. By thickets in the deep valleys of the 
rocks of the presidium ; fl, middle of Nov. 1856. No. 5993. 
