Acokanthera.] Lxxxiv. apocyxace^ (stapf). 95 



in. Boll. Soc. Afr. Italia, x. (1891) xi.-xii. 1;J (the Taita plant); Pax 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. B. 519 (the Taita plant). A. .abijssinica, 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 48 (partly?) Oestrum veitenalum, 

 Thunb. Prodr. 86 ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 193. C. oppositi/olium, Lam. 

 [11. ii. 5, t. 112, fig. 2; Poir. Suppl. ii. 182. To.ricophlo'.a Thunhergii, 

 Harv. in Hook. Lond. Jourii. Bot. i. 24, and Thes. Cap. 10, t. 16. 

 T. cestroides, A. DC. Prod. viii. 886. Sidero.v^flum toxiferuiii^ Thunb. 

 Trav. ed. 3, i. 156. 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa: Taita; Ndara Mouiitain, 4000-4800 ft., 

 Hildehrandt^ 2452 ! Holmwood ! 



IMCozamb. X>ist. German East Africa: Usaiubara ; Kwa Mshuza, 4500 ft.. 

 Hoist, 8968 ! British Central Africa : Rhodesia ; by stieams near Buhiwayo, 

 Rand, 572 ! 



Alsj in Soutli Africa. The root is nsed by the natives of tlie Taita District for 

 poisoning arrows. Thunberg, I.e., also states that it is used for the sa)ne i)urpose by 

 the Hottentots and that the Cape Dutch call it " (Jift boom." Sualieli name 

 Mtehungn (Hiklebrandt). 



8. A. spectabilis, Hook.f, in Bot. Mag. t. 6:)59. A tall shrub or 

 •small tree up to 15 ft. high, glabrous (except sometimes the inflores- 

 cences) ; young branches compressed. Leaves elliptic or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, rarely obtuse, generally mucronate, acute at the base, 

 2J-5 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, very coriaceous, dark green, paler and 

 sometimes purplish beneath ; secondary nerves usually 7-10 on each 

 side, sometimes with similar tertiary nerves between them, faint 

 or like the reticulating veins slightly prominent on both sides ; 

 petiole stout, 2-4 lin. long. Corymbs or clusters short, dense, many- 

 flowered, subsessile, glabrous or puberulous ; bracts ovate, cadu- 

 cous, ciliolate. Calyx more or less pubescent, green or whitish, \h ^i^- 

 long ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, ciliolate. Corolla white, tinged with 

 pink, fragrant ; tube 7-9 lin. long, pubescent or almost glabrous without, 

 hairy within ; lobes ovate to oblong, acute, 2-?) lin. long. Anthers 

 J lin. long. Stigma short, cylindric, obtusely apiculate. Beriy ellipsoid, 

 1 lin. long or longer, purplish-black. Seeds 1-2, semi-ellipsoid, 5-9 lin. 

 long. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 1 2^) ; Wood, 

 Natal PI. GO, t. 74. A. venenata, Schweinf. ex Lewin in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xvii. Beibl. 41, 46, and Lewin, I.e. 47-51 ; L. Planchon, Prod. Apoeyn. 

 255 ; Vogtherr in Kohler, Mediz. Pfl. iii. text to t. 04 ; not of G. Don. 

 ^.sp., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 696. Carissa oblong i folia, Hochst. 

 in Flora, 1844, 827, and ex Walp. Rep. vi. 46(1. To.cicophloia 

 ."ipectahiUs, Thiselton-Dyer ex Gard. Chron. 1872, o^^'d ; Flor. Mag. 

 new ser. t. 20 ; Gard. Chron. xv.(1894) 209, fig. 23 ; Rev. Hort. 1879, 

 270 with plate ; 1888, 517 with fig. T. Thunhergii, Sonder in Linnaea, 

 xxiii. 79; Gartenflora, 1878, t. 940; Rev. Hort. 1S80, 870 with plate; 

 111. Hortic. xxxii. (1885) t. 553, not of Harvey. 



ItO-wer Guinea. German South-west Africa: Herorolamh Pechuel Loesche 

 (according to (). Kuntze in J.ihrb. Herl. Bot. Gart. iv. 188(3, 2(58) ? 



Hitlierto only known from Natal. I suspect tb.it O. Kinitze's ditcrmination 

 (made from a fruiting branch) is erroneous, and tliat the Hercrolantl plant is A. 



