LXXXIV. APOCYNACE^ (sTAPF). 27 



.stigma various, often exuding more or less glutinous matter and sticking tightly to 

 the anthers at least in the dry state, otherwise free. Fruit baccate or follicular (hut 

 more or lessjleshy). Seeds not comose, arillate in follicular fruits ; endosperm 

 rentrally grooved and more or less ruminate. Cotyledons flat. 

 *Sepals almost or quite free, not circumscissile at tlie base. 

 Ovary, synearpous, imperfectly 2-celled ; fruit a 



simple berry . 17. TABERyA^■THE. 



Ovary apocarpous, or carpels united only near the 

 base ; mericarps baccate or follicular. 

 Anthers linear-oblong, ihortly 2-lobed or sub- 

 sagittRte ; stigma oblong, ellipsoid or capi- 

 tate, not appendiculate at the base. 

 Corolla salver-shaped ; disc 0. 



Stigma capitate, exiipiculate, entire; small- 

 Howered shrub ; mericarps 3-keeled or 

 3-\vinged, baccate or very tardily de- 

 hiscent . . . . . .18. Pterotaberna. 



.Stigma oblong to ellipsoid with a bifid 

 slender apiculus ; flowers small to 

 middle-sized (corolla-tube 3-12 lin. 

 long, very slender); mericarps follicular 

 often beaked and finally flattened out, 



not winged 19. Ervatamia. 



Corolla campanulate-funiiel-shaped, large; disc 

 distinct, aduate to the ovary. 

 Flowers not involucrate ; cylindric part of 



the corolla-tube short . . . .20. Calocrater. 



Flowers involucrate by large foliaceous 

 bracts ; cylindric part of the corolla- 

 tube long and slender .... 21. Crioceras. 

 Anthers more or less linear-lanceolate, sagittate 

 (rarely subsagittate) ; stigma cylindric or 

 capitate, always apiculate and with a basal 

 appendage. 

 Corolla widened above the insertion of the 

 stamens. 

 Supra-staminal part of the corolla-tube cylin- 

 dric or funnel-shaped towards the 

 mouth ; corolla 2-3 in. long . . 22, Callichilia, 



Supra-staminal part of the corolla-tube wide, 



campanulate; corolla about ^ in. long . 23. Carvalhoa. 

 Corolla gradually constricted above the in- 

 sertion of the stamens. 

 Corolla-lobes overlapping to the right ; disc 



distinct ; mericarps multistriate . . 24. Schizozygia. 



Corolla-lobes overlapping to the left ; disc ; 

 mericarps smooth or 2-3-keeled, rarely 

 warty. 

 Corolla-tube slender, staminiferous close to 



the base 25. Gabunia. 



Corolla-tube inflated and staminiferous 



at the middle 26. Conopharyngia. 



**Sepals united into a tubular or subcampanulate, 5-lobed 

 calyx, circumscissile at the base or splitting longitu- 

 dinally 27. Voacakga. 



