Clitandra.'] Lxxxiv. apocynace^ (stapf). 61 



very short or half as long or almost as long as the anthers and very 

 slender ; anthers oblong to lanceolate, usually acute, minutely 2-lobed 

 and dehiscing to the base. Disc 0. Ovary entire, glabrous oi* hairy, 

 1- (rarely 2-) celled ; placentas 2, parietal, very much projecting and some- 

 times uniting at the top and base, rarely fusing into a complete septum ; 

 style columnar, short or almost suppressed ; stigma reaching to the base 

 of the anthers, rarely lower down, capitate, clavate or subsubulate, with 

 an annular thickening, rarely with a ring of hairs at the base, entire or 

 more or less 2-lobed, not or very shortly exceeding the calyx (never by 

 more than one calyx-length) ; ovules 4-seriate, 3-4 in each row. Fruit 

 a globose or pear-shaped, rarely cylindric-oblong berry, usually not 

 much over 1 in. in diam. Seeds not very numerous, embedded in a 

 juicy pulp, ovoid, compressed or irregularly flattened ; albumen bony ; 

 cotyledons foliaceous, very thin ; radicle short. — Glabrous shrubs 

 with usually slender branches, usually climbing with flagelliform, 

 hook-branched tendrils springing from the branch-forks, rarely dwarf 

 shrubs throwing up fresh shoots yearly. Leaves opposite, small or 

 middle-sized (rarely attaining G in. in length), coriaceous, closely or 

 remotely nerved; axillary stipules 0; axillary glands or obscure. 

 Flowers small, rarely up to 1 in. long in the mature bud, in axillary or 

 axillary and terminal more or less loose cymes or compact clusters. 

 15 species, endemic, except 1 in Trinidad (indigenous ?). 



*Cham.eclitandra. — Dwarf shrubs, throwing up fresh erect shoots yearly, up to 

 li ft. high. Leaves small, oblong-IanceoLite, glaucous. Cymes axillary or terminal, 

 snbsessile or on short small-leaved lateral branches. Corolla-tube cylindric, 4-5 lin. 

 long. 



Only species . . . . . . . . 1. C. henriquesiana. 



**Cylindeopsis.— Climbing shrubs. Leaves not glaucous, elliptic to oblong; 

 secondary nerves rather d'stant, faint. Cymes axillary (or sometimes with some 

 additional terminal (?) ones), reduced to small sessile clusters (in the African species), 

 rarely lax. Flowers not quite 3 lin. long in the mature bud (in the African species), 

 rarely up to 4.] lin. long. Corolla-tube more or less cylindric, usually longer than 

 the lobes. Style filiform ; stigma subulate from an annulate base. — Cylindropsis, 

 Pierre. 



Quite glabrous ; corolla-tube cylindric to beyond the 

 middle, more or less abruptly inflated below the 

 mouth; ovary puberulous in the upper part . 2. C. pan {folia. 

 More or less hairy on the young branches ; corolla- 

 tube widest at or near the middle, cylindric 

 below or gradually narrowed to both ends ; ovary 

 quite glabrous. 

 Flowers yellow ; sepals submembranous, pale, 

 glabrous or almost so except on the ciliate 

 margins . . . . . . . 3. C. togolana. 



Flowers white ; sepals firm, scarious, brown, 



pubescent . . . . . . . 4. C alba. 



***ErCLiTANDRA. — Climbing shrubs. Leaves very rarely glaucous, elliptic or 

 oblong, rarely lanceolate, very closely nerved. Cymes axillary, much contracted or 

 reduced to sessile clusters. Flowers usually 4-12 lin. (rarely 3 lin.) long in the 

 mature bud. Corolla-tube more or less cylindric, usually very slender, longer or 



