96 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACEiE (stapf). [AcoJcauthera. 



venenata. On the othtr hand, the A. venenata, mentioned in Lewin's paper in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xvii. Beibl. No. 41, in L. Planehon, Prrd. A} ocyn. 255, and bv Vcgtherr ia 

 Kohlei's Mediz. Pfl. iii. text to t. 64, is- certainly A. spectahilis. The specimen 

 which Leu in examined wasobtaired frcm La Moitola ; Schweiiifurth's description of 

 its leaves and remark (in Lewin, I.e.) that the flowtrs are cne-thiid larger than those 

 of A. Schiwjjeri or A. Befiersii, lea\e no doubt about it. A. spectahilis also con- 

 tains a dtadly poison. 



7. PICBALIMA, Pierre in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1H9G, 127H. 



Calyx middle-sized ; sepals 5, free, imbricate, broad, obtuse, sub- 

 coriaceous, with numerous small adpie&sed glands at the base within. 

 Corolla salver-shaped ; tube cylindric, very slightly, widened in the 

 upper third, fleshy, naked at the mouth ; lobes 5, broad-eiliptic, obtuse, 

 overlapping to the left. Stamens 5, enclosed in the widened part of 

 the corolla-tube; filaments very short, filiform ; anthers free from the 

 stigma, oblong-linear, subacute, shortly 2-lobed at the base ; anther- 

 cells poUiniferous and dehiscing to the base. Disc 0. Carpels 2, 

 coherent along the ventral sutures, oblong ; style filiform ; stigma 

 cylindric-oblong, smooth, minutely 2-apiculate ; ovules multiseriate, 

 numerous. Fruit of 2 (or by abortion of 1) large obovoid-oblong 

 baccate divaricate mericarps, slightly flattened at the base wheie they 

 touch each other, but are free ; pericarp thick, fleshy, fibrous, especially 

 in the inner part, milky. Seeds many, oblong, compressed, horizontal 

 and sessile on the fleshy placenta, more or less embedded in a scanty 

 fleshy pulp; hilum basal, punctiform ; testa smooth, coriaceous; 

 endospeim fleshy (hard when dry), ample. Embryo shorter than the 

 endosperm ; cotyledons obovate-oblong about as long as or Irnger than 

 the radicle.- — A glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, petiole d, coriaceous : 

 petioles hollowed at the base ; axillary stipules ; axillary glands 

 numerous, forming a fringe lining the cavity of the petiole, secreting 

 resin. Infloiescence teiminal, of 1 shortly peduncled or 2-3 closelj^ 

 approximate, few- to 12-flowered pseudo-umbels, much shorter than 

 the uppermost leaves. Flowers white, middle-sized. 

 Species 1, endemic. 



]. P. klaineana, rieore, I.e. 1279. A tree 30-80 ft. high; 

 branches stout, terete, dark brown or blackish. Leaves oblong, more or 

 less abruptly acuminate, rotundate or subacute at the base, 5i— 7 in. 

 long, 2-3 in, broad, thinly coriaceous, glossy above ; secondary nerves 

 about 20 on each side, sometimes with similar parallel tertiary nerves 

 between them, rather spreading, straight to or beyond the middle, then 

 slightly curved, joined by a distinct marginal nerve close to the edge ; 

 veins slightly prominent, anastomosing in more or less elongate areoles, 

 subparallel to the side-nerves ; petiole stout, canaliculate, up to 6 lin. 

 long. Peduncle stout, |-1 in. long ; bracts small or quite suppressed ; 

 pedicels 4-G lin. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 3 lin. long, shining 



