104 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [Poli/odoa. 



umheUata, Hallier f. Kautschuklianen in Jahrb. Hamburg. Wissensch. 

 Anstalt. xvii. (1809), 8. Beih. 100. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : Ibadan Foivst, Punch, 138 ! Cameroons : Mbanjja 

 Mountain, near LolocTorf, 2300 ft., Staudt, 130! Bipiiide, in forest, 500 ft., 

 Zenker, 1707 ! 1729 ! 



2. P. Elliotii, Stapf. A shrub; branches slender, laterally 

 compressed when young, drying blackish ; lenticels very scanty, warty 

 Leaves ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse to obtusely sub- 

 acuminate, acute at the base, :^-5 in. long, 1 J-2 in. broad, subcoriaceous ; 

 midrib channelled above, prominent beneath ; secondary nerves up to 

 20 on each side, with very similar parallel tertiary nerves between 

 them, obliquely spreading, straight, fine, slightly raised on both sides ; 

 reticulation distinct, though faint, above, obscure beneath ; petiole 4-5 

 lin. long. Corymbs 5- to many-flowered, subsessile or distinctly 

 peduncled, compact, terminal ; peduncle up to 5 lin. long; pedicels very 

 short. Calyx slightly over J lin. long, very resinous ; sepals rotundate- 

 ovate, obtuse, with cylindric glands within. Corolla-tube 2|-3J 

 lin. long, pubescent within below the stamens ; lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 as long as or slightly longer or shorter than the tube. Anthers ovate- 

 oblong, subobtuse, f lin. long. Ovules 10-12 in about 3 rows. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Makunde, Scott-Elliot, 5690 ! and without 

 precise localiiy, Wiilferth (?) ! 



10. HUNTERIA, Roxb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 698. 



Calyx small ; sepals almost free, acute, firm, obtusely keeled, with 

 adpressed entire or lobed scale-like glands near the base within. 

 Corolla salver-shaped ; tube slightly widened above the middle, mouth 

 constricted by a callous ring, naked ; lobes overlapping to the left. 

 Stamens inserted in the widened part of the tube ; anthers free from 

 the stigma, oblong-lanceolate ; cells obtuse at and dehiscing to the base. 

 Disc 0. Carpels 2, free or slightly connate at the base ; style filiform ; 

 stigma at the level of the anthers, oblong-ellipsoid, subpapillose, with a 

 distinct bifid apiculus ; ovules collateral, 2 in each cell. Mericarps 

 baccate, divaricate, or one frequently abortive, ellipsoid or globose, 

 stipitate, apiculate or obtuse. Seeds 1 or 2 (and then plano-convex), semi- 

 ellipsoid ; testa rather thick, almost fleshy ; endosperm almost horny ; 

 cotyledons very thin, foliaceous, as long as the slender radicle. — Glabrous 

 trees. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, glossy, with numerous faint sub- 

 parallel nerves ; axillary stipules ; axillary glands very minute or ; 

 axillary and terminal buds usually more or less coated with resin. 

 Corymbs terminal or pseudo-axillary. 



A small jrenus of 4 species, 1 in East Africa, 3 in Ceylon, South India, and 

 the Malayan region. 



1. H. africana, K. Schum. in Engl. Tfi. Osi-Afr. C. 317. Young 

 branches brown, soon grey. Leaves oblong or elliptic, obtuse, sometimes 

 indistinctly acuminate, acute at the base, 3-4 J in. long, 1 J-1 j in. broad, 

 thinly coriaceous, very glossy above, dull beneath ; lateral nerves about 



