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Lxxxiv. APOCYXACE.E (stapf). [Conopharyngia. 



solid, barren ; filaments reduced to a callous swelling ; filamental ridge 

 usually distinct. Disc 0. Carpels 2, free ; style filiform to columnar, 

 short (at least comparatively) ; stigma cylindric, grooved, with an entire 

 or lobed projecting rim or short frill at the base and a minute 2-lobed 

 apiculus, more rarely (Sect. Leptojyharyngia) elliptic or globose, 

 delicately papillose, not grooved, with a usually toothed rim at the 

 base and a conspicuous 2-fid papillose apiculus as long as or longer than 

 the rest of the stigma. Mericarps baccate, usually more or less globose 

 or ovoid, smooth, rarely keeled or warty and tardily dehiscent when 

 drying up. Seeds numerous, embedded in a usually fleshy pulp, more 

 or less ellipsoid, deeply grooved yentrally ; testa crustaceous ; endosperm 

 fleshy, ruminate ; cotyledons ovate, longer or shorter than the radicle. 

 — Trees, often tall, or shrubs. Leaves opposite, more or less coriaceous, 

 sometimes very large ; axillary stipules distinct, very obtuse, united into 

 a very short tubular sheath, usually with very numerous resiniferous 

 glands within. Inflorescences terminal or pseudo-axillary, corymbose, 

 rarely panicled or reduced to few-flowered cymes. Flowers large and 

 showy to middle-sized, rarely small, usually white and fragrant. — 

 Tahermemontana, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 700 partly. 



Species about 25, mostly in tropical Africa, a few in the Mascarene Islmids, 2 in 

 Eastern South Africa. 



*Sae.cophakyngia. — Corolla-tube ^-3i in. long, flesliy. Stigma more or less cylin- 

 dric, grooved, with a projecting entire or lobed rim at the base and a minute apiculus. 

 Corolla-tube lf-3.^ in. long. 



Corolla-tube 2|-3i in. long, with the anthers inserted 

 14-15 lin. above the base; leaves oblong-elliptic to 

 oblong-lanceolate, 4-6 in. long, l'i-2h in. broad . 1. C. longiflora. 

 Corolla-tube under 2\ in. long, with the anthers in- 

 serted 7-3 lin. above the base ; leaves larger 

 than in C longijlora. 

 Calyx 3i-4^ lin. long; corolla-tube 2-2:|- in. long, 

 widest 6-7 lin. above the base ; anthers 6-8 lin. 

 long. 

 Calyx 4-4f lin. long ; corolla -tube very stout, 

 much twisted ; anthers 7-8 lin. long; style 

 7 lin. long ...... 



Calyx 3^-4 lin. long ; corolla-tube more slender 

 than in the preceding species, slightly 

 twisted near the base, otherwise straight ; 

 anthers 6 lin. long ; style 5-6 lin. long 

 Calyx 3-1^, lin. long; corolla-tube 2^-lA in. long, 

 widest 4^3 lin. above the base ; anthers 

 4—5 lin. long. 

 Calyx 3-2 lin. long. 



Corolla-tube 2-2 i in. long ; anthers 5 lin. long ; 

 leaves 8-12 in. long, 4i-8 in. broad ; 

 secondary nerves 11-12 on each side 

 Corolla J;ube 1^ lin. long; anthers 4 lin. long; 

 leaves smaller or at least narrower than 

 in C. Thonneri ; secondary nerves 9 

 (sometimes up to 11) . . . . 5. C. rhirissima. 



Calyx 1^ lin. long 6. C. jollyaua. 



2. C contorta. 



3. C. Smithii, 



4. C. Thonneri. 



