Rauwolfia.'] lxxxiv. apocynAce.e (sTiPF). 115 



Leaves in whorls of 4-3, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, cuneate at the base, 4-8 in. long, \-'ll in. broad, thinly 

 membranous ; secondary nerves 15-18 on each sidefrarely fewer, much 

 spreading, curved; veins quite obscure; petiole 4-12 lin. long. Flowers 

 pedicelled at or near the ends of the secondary or tertiary rays of a 

 compound umbel ; peduncles 2-6 in. Iqng ; primary rays 2.'—;^ in. long; 

 secondary and tertiary rays often very unequal, 6-2 lin. long"; pedicels 

 filiform, up to 8 lin. long. Calyx J-f lin. long ; segments ovate, acute. 

 Corolla yellowish ; tube '6-6^ lin. long, villous at the mouth ; lobes 

 ovate, obtuse, f lin. long. Carpels free : style slender, glabrous. Fruit 

 a simple or divaricate twin drupe ; drupes quite free, ovoid, subapiculate, 

 3-4 lin. long, red. — R. monopyrena, K. Schum. in Engl. Pll. Ost-Afr 

 C. 318. 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa : Witu, Thomas, 110 ! 130 ! MombasM, Hilde- 

 hrandt, 2011 ! Wakefield ! Kabai Hills, Taylor / 



Mozamb. Di8t> German East Africa : Usambara ; Amboni, Hoist, 2801a 1 

 Zanofuebar, Kirk, 84 ! Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; ■ Shupauga, 

 Kirk ! 



14. R, vomitoria, ^4/^. Stirp. Guin. Med. >Sp. Xov. 1. A shrub or 

 small tree, up to 20 ft. high, glabrous except the inflorescences ; young 

 branches quadrangular. Leaves in whorls of 3-4, very variable in 

 shape, lanceolate to elliptic, more or less acuminate at both ends, 3-7 

 in. long, 1-3 in. broad, thinly membranous; secondary nerves 10-lG, 

 much spreading; veins usually very obscure; petiole 3-15 lin. long. 

 Flowers in repeatedly dichotomous finely pubescent cymes, arranged in 

 umbels ; peduncles J-3 in. long ; primary rays J— 1 in. long ; pedicels 

 slender, from less than J lin. to 2 lin. long. Calyx h to over J lin. long ; 

 segments ovate, obtuse. Corolla white ; tube somewhat constricted at 

 the very mouth, 3-3J lin. long ; hairy in the mouth ; lobes ovate, 

 obtuse, |-| lin. long. Carpels free; style slightly thickened and villous 

 towards the base, 1^-2 lin. long. Fruit a simple or divaricate twin 

 drupe; drupes quite free, ovoid, subapiculate, 3^—4 lin. long, red. — 

 Spreng. Syst. i. 834 ; DC. Prod. viii. 341 ; Hook. Niger Fl. 446 ; 

 L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 295. B. Senegamhice, DC. Prod. viii. 340; 

 Hook. I.e. ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfnm. iv. ii. 154 ; De 

 Wild, in Bull. Herb. Boiss, ser. 2, i. 34. R. seneyambica, A. DC. ex De 

 Wild, k, Durand, Reliq. Devvevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. ser. 3, 

 fasc. ii. 150. R. pleiosciadica, K. Schum. I.e., and in Schlechter, Westafr. 

 Kautschuk-Exped. 307. R. Stuhlmannii, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 318 ; R. congolana^ De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus 

 Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxviii. 204, and Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo 

 Bot. ser. 3, fasc. ii. 150. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : Rio l^wnez, Hendelof, Q\0. Frencb Guinea; 

 near Sulimana, 3500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 5318 ! Duyania, Scott-Elliot, 4823 ! 8iorra 

 Leone: K^mh\?i, Scott- Elliot, A'dhQ'. Bafodeya, 5co^/-^//io/', 5501 : Kagru KivtM-, 

 JlfaMH.' and without precise locality, ^/rfZ/?;*.' Don! T'oqel, lOS I Barter! Liberia: 

 Orand Bassa, Vo^el, 19 ! Gold Coast, Burron Sf Cameron ! Lag<^s : Ebula Metta, 

 Millen, 20 ! Abeokuta, Irvhig, 23 I 64- ! between Abookuta and Ibadan, Scldocbter, 



