118 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [Allamanda. 



pedicels stout, li-0 lin. long. Calyx 4-8 lin. long, quite glabrous, 

 persistent ; sepals lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acute to subobtuse. 

 Corolla yellow ; cyiindric part of the tube and throat, each 2-2J in. 

 long; lobes round, unequal, |— 1 lin. long: throat-scales fimbriate. 

 Capsule ovoid-elliptic, H in. long, Ij in. broad. Seeds 4-5 lin. long, 

 broadly winged. — Gsertn. De Fruct. t. 61; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 259; 

 Bot. Mag. t. :5;38 ; A.DC. Prod. viii. 31<S ; Muell. Arg. in Fl. Brasil. vi. i. 

 10 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. ii. 128, fig. 49, E-G ; 

 and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. :^>15; Stapf in De Wild. & Durand, 

 Contrib. Fl. Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. ser. 2, i. fasc. i. 33 ; De 

 Wild, (fe Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. ser. 3, fasc. 

 ii. 145. A. Schottii, Bot. Mag. t. 4351 (not of Pohl). A.Auhletii,'Poh\, 

 Plant. Brasil. i. 75 ; B6t. Mag. t. 441 1. Orelia grandiflora, Aubl. Guyan. 

 i. 271, t. lOi;. 



Xiomrer CrUinea. Lower Congo : Boma, Deivevre, 417 ! 



XVfozaxnb. Sist. Zanzibar, SfuMmann, 636. 



A native of tropical South America, cultivated and sometimes naturalised in 

 various parts of the Old World. 



14. LOCHNERA, Beichb. Conspectus, 134. 



Calyx middle-sized, herbaceous, eglandular within ; sepals 5, subulate, 

 scarcely imbricate. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube slender, cyiindric, 

 slightly widened below the constricted, callous, velvety mouth ; lobes 

 overlapping to the left. Stamens in the widened part of the corolla- 

 tube ; filaments very short ; anthers free from the stigma ; ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, shortly and obtusely 2-lobed at the base ; anther-cells 

 poUiniferous and dehiscing to the base. Disc replaced by two long 

 linear glands alternating with the carpels. Carpels '2, free ; style 

 filiform; stigma slightly below the level of the anthers, depressed- 

 capitate, viscous with a long hyaline reflexed frill at the base and a 

 minute obtuse 2-lobed apiculus surrounded by a very short erect mem- 

 branous rim ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate. Mericarps follicular, cyiindric, 

 slightly spreading. Seeds numerous, small ; testa rugose ; hilum 

 lateral ; endosperm fleshy ; cotyledons oblong, flat, shorter than the thick 

 radicle. — Annual or perennial herbs or small undershrubs. Leaves 

 opposite ; axillary stipules ; axillary glands numerous in a fringe, 

 the outer long, filiform, the inner minute. Flowers axillary, solitary or 

 paired, white or pink. — Vinca, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 703 

 partly. 



Species 3, indigenous in tropical America, Indin, and Madagascar. One species 

 widely diffused as a weed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of both, 

 hemispheres. 



1. la. rosea, Reichh. I.e. A small undershrub, up to 3 ft. high. 

 Leaves obovate or oblong, very obtuse (rarely subacute) and apiculate, 

 acute at the base, lJ-3 in. long, f-l| in. broad, herbaceous, finely 

 pubescent to subtomentose ; petioles 1-4 lin. long. Pedicels up to 1 lin. 



