D4 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE.E (stapf). [Acokccnthera . 



mountains south of Zeila, ex Burtoyi. Ahl Mountains, 3000-3900 ft., Hildehrandt, 

 1431 ! Golis Range, Mrs. Lort-Philips J Miss Edith Cole ! mountains of the 

 Warsangeli and Mijurti districts, i^eio/./ / HahraAval, Donaldson- Smith ! British 

 Eiist Africa : Leikipia, 6000-8000 ft., Thomson ! Hohnel ; Ellamo, 4500 ft., 

 Belamere! Mau, 7000 ft., Johnston ! Ukamba, 6000 It., Scott-Elliot, 6395 ! Nyika, 

 Gregory / 



Also in South- western Arabia. 



Var. /3 Dejiersii, Stapf. Branches and leaves scabrid, at least when young, the 

 latter frequently larger than in the type. Corolla-tube 5-6 lin. long, pubescent or 

 glabrous. — A. Dejiersii, Schweinf. ex Lewin in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 41, 46, and 

 Lewin, I.e. 47-51, fig. E, and in Vircliow's Archiv. I.e. 233; L. Planchon, Prod. 

 Apocyn. 250 ; Vogtherr in Kohler, Mediz. Ptl. iii. text to t. 64. 



Wile l^and. Eritrea : Ginda ; on the DongoUo Hills, 3200 ft., Schweinfurth 

 ^ Riva, 2223 ! and near the Felakhit River, Schweinfurth ^ Riva, 2183 ! Somali- 

 land : Wagga Mountains, 6000 ft., Mrs. Lort-Philips! British Enst Africa: 

 between Le and Toclia, Delamere ! 



Also in South-western Arabia. This is probably only an individual variation, such 

 as occurs frequently, for instance, in Carissa edit lis. 



A decoction of the root of A. Schimperi is, as .1. Vanghan (in Pharm. Jonrn. ser. 7, 

 xii. 271) and F. S. Arnott [see Burton, " First Footsteps in East Africa " (ed. 1894) 

 i. 139, footnote"! first pointed out, used by the Somalis for poisoning arrows. The 

 Wandorobbo, Wakamba, Wanyika and other tribes of British East Africa also use it 

 for the same purpose. The Somali- name for the plant is Wabei or Waba, and 

 for the poison Wabayo or Ouabaio (Rochebrune & Arnaud, Reel), sur le Ouabaio 

 in Mission Revoil Pays Comalis), the Masai name Murzu. 



2. A. venenata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 485. A shrub or a 

 gnarled tree, up to 14 ft. high, glabrous (except sometimes the inflores- 

 cence) ; young branches compressed or ancipitous, smooth. Leaves 

 mostly ovate or elliptic, sometimes oblong, rarely lanceolate, acute and 

 usually mucronulate, rarely obtuse, acute at the base, lJ-4 in. long, 

 J-2 in. broad, pale or olive-green when dry, somewhat shining above 

 or on both sides ; secondary nerves 6-1 on each side, often with 

 similar interposed tertiary nerves, oblique, parallel, prominent on both 

 sides; veins distinct or obscure ; petiole stout, 1-2 lin. long. Clusters 

 glabrous or puberulous, sessile or subsessile, usually many-flowered ; 

 bracts ovate, brown or the upper pinkish. Calyx glabrous or puberu- 

 lous, 1 lin. long ; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, 

 distinctly to very obscurely ciliolate. Corolla white to pink, sweet- 

 scented ; tube 3|^-5 lin. long, puberulous or glabrous without, hairy 

 within ; lobes broad-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, somewhat over 

 1 lin. long. Anthers |-| lin. long. Stigma short, obtuse, conic. 

 Berry globose, 1 in. in diam., purplish-black ; seeds semi-globose or semi- 

 eUipsoid, 4-6 lin. long. — Vatke ex Schweinf. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 

 Beibl. 41, 46 (footnote); Holmes in Pharm. Journ. ser. 3, xxiv. 42 ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 126 (not of Schweinf. 

 ex Lewin in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. 41, 4G, and Lewin, ].c. 49-51, 47, 

 fig. A., nor L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 255, nor Vogtherr in Kohler, 

 Mediz. Pfl. iii. t. 64). A, Lamarkii, Don, I.e. A. Schimperi, Schweinf. 



