Malouetia.'] lxxxiv. apocynace^ (staff). 195 



stipules or very obscure and joined into a fine rim across the stem ; 

 axillary glands scanty and fugacious. Flowers on slender pedicels in 

 few- to many-flowered subsessile umbelliform terminal and pseudo- 

 lateral inflorescences. 



Species about 16, 1 in tropical West Africa, tlie others in tropical America. 



1. M. Heudelotii, vl. />C. Prod. viii. 380. Perfectly glabrous; 

 branches terete, dark reddish- brown. Leaves oblong, acuminate, acute 

 at the base, '6^-bh in. long, 1J-2J in. broad, thin, papery; secondary 

 nerves 7-9 on each side ; petiole 2-3 lin. long. Cymes few-flowered, 

 subsessile ; bracts very small ; pedicels slender, up to 4 lin. long. 

 Calyx 1 lin. long ; sepals ovate, subacute. Corolla white ; tube 5-5^ 

 lin. long, with confluent tubercles at the mouth ; lobes oblong, acuminate 

 or cuspidate, 4|^-5 lin. long, puberulous at the base. Disc 5-lobed. 

 Anthers IJ lin. long. Follicles 7-10 in. long. Seeds H-lf in. long, 

 1 J lin. broad, scantily pubescent at both ends, but chiefly at the upper 

 subulate end. — Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 450. M. africana, K. Schum. 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 187. 



Upper Guinea. Seuegambia, Heudelot, 714 ! 890 ! French Guinea : 

 Scarcies Valley; near Sasseiii, Scott-TJlliot, 4430! 4524! near Bayabaya, Scott- 

 miiot, 4782 ! near Wallia, Scott-Elliot, 4785 ! Sierra Leone : Kukuna, by tlie 

 River Scarcies, Scott-Elliot, 4242 ! 4626 ! Madiua, Scott-Elliot, 5566 ! 



35. ALAFIA, Thouars; Benth. et Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. 717. 



Calyx small, herbaceous; sepals 5, imbricate, broadly ovate, obtuse, 

 alternating with small intracalycular glands. Corolla salver-shaped ; 

 tube cylindric, slightly widened at or just below the middle, without 

 scales or calli within ; mouth usually very narrow ; lobes 5, oveilapping 

 to the right. Stamens inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube; fila- 

 ments very short, flattened ; anthers conniving in a cone, almost reach- 

 ing to the mouth of the corolla or shortly exserted, linear to lanceolate, 

 acute, sagittate ; appendages longer than the polliniferoiis part ; tails 

 short ; foot of the connective with a hairy elongated cushion or a 

 tongue-shaped projection. Disc 0. Carpels 2, free, short, very ob- 

 tuse ; style clavate-filiform, passing into the flask-shaped, shortly 

 apiculate stigma which exudes glutinous matter below the constriction 

 attaching it firmly to the foot of the connective ; ovules numerous, 

 pluriseriate. Mericarps follicular, slightly spreading, slender, cylindric. 

 Seeds linear-lanceolate with a deciduous apical coma ; embryo unknown. 

 — Scandent shrubs with more or less fistular branches. Leaves opposite, 

 coriaceous ; secondary nerves rather distant. Flowers generally in 

 many-flowered terminal or pseudo-axillary corymbs or pseudo-umbels or 

 in few- flowered cymes, rarely solitary. 



Species about 12 in tropical Africa and Madagascar, 

 ilowers white in usually many-flowered corymbs, 

 or yellow in few-flowercLl cymee. 



