J 50 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [C onopharyngia. 



by young shoots, many-flowered, loose; peduncle 1-2 in. long; bracts 

 small, scarious, caducous;' pedicels slender, up to 6 lin. long. Calyx 

 1-1 i lin. long ; sepals rotundate-ovate, obtuse, not ciliolate, with 1 bifid 

 or 2-8 entire basal glands within. Corolla yellowish-white ; tube short, 

 cylindric, 3-3J lin. long, constricted and thin ai^d glabrous within below 

 the stamens, more fleshy and hairy within in the upper part ; lobes 

 oblong, 4^ lin. long. Stamens inserted 1 lin. above the base of the 

 corolla-tube ; anthers subsagittate, with short solid basal points, 1 lin. 

 long. Style J lin. long ; stigma subulate, densely papillose, 2-fid, from 

 a globose or ellipsoid viscid base, supported by a ring of 10 small spread- 

 ing lobes. Berries obliquely ovoid, with apiculate recurved tips and 

 1 dorsal and 2 lateral ridges, up to 2 in. long, fleshy, covered with 

 numerous suberous warts, at length dehiscing ventrally. — Taherruemon- 

 tana elegans, Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1894, 24; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 

 OstAfr. C. 316. 



Wile Ziand. British East Africa : Mombasa, Wakefield ! 



ASozamb. Dlst. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Shupanga, KirJc ! 

 between Sena and Lupata, Kirk, 30a ! 42 ! Shiramba, Peters ! Chirouio, Scott- 

 Mliot, 2806a ! Shire Highlands, Johnston ! 



The Mombasa plant has (in comparison to the specimens from the Zambesi basin) 

 very narrow, lanceolate leaves (f-1 in. broad) with more oblique side-nerves and 

 slightly smaller flowers. On the other hand, a form occurs with thin, strictly 

 oblong and obtuse leaves and fruits up to 4 in. long wlien dry. The material at 

 hand is too scanty to suggest whether those differences are constant or not. 



Imperfectly hiovni species. 



19. Tabernsemontana grandifiora, Hooh. in Gray d- Dochard, 

 Trav. West. Afr. App. 38'J, t. B., not of Linn. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute at both ends or with subohtuse tips, 5 in. long, 1| in. broad ; 

 secondary nerves up to 12 on each side ; petiole 4 lin. long. Flowers 

 solitary, pseudo-axillary ; peduncle stout, 6-10 lin. long. Calyx about 

 5-6 lin. long ; sepals ovate, obtuse. Corolla white ; tube about 1 

 in. long, much twisted, widened at the middle; lobes obHquely 

 obovate-oblong. Stamens inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube ; 

 anthers sagittate. Carpels free ; style filiform ; stigma cylindric with 

 a basal ring. Berries ovoid, apiculate. — T. a/ricana, A. DC. Prod. viii. 

 367 ; L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 294 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 148. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Kakundi, on the Eio Nunez, Kummer. 



This plant was described from a drawing made by Kummer on the spot, the 

 original s])ecimen having been lost. If the drawing is correct in all its proportions, it 

 doubtless represents a distinct species of Conopharyngia ; but I suspect this is not the 

 case. The foliage is quite like that of C. longifiora, and the figures of the flower and' 

 fruit would, except for their reduced size, also answer fairly well for that species. 



20. Tabemaemontana mborensis, K. Schum. in Engl. Veg. 

 Uluguru Gebirges in Sitz. Ber. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin, xvi. (1900) 198 

 {name only). 



IVXozamb. Bist. German East Africa: North Uluguru ; near Mboro, ex 

 Schumann. 



