•J'2S Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [Adenium, 



descending from the filaments almost to the middle, otherwise glabrous 

 within, supra-staminal part wide, tubular or rather funnel-shaped, 

 S-15 lin. long, sparingly villous in the throat with 5 descending hairy- 

 lines ; throat-scales short, decurrent on one side and confluent below, 

 forming an obversely sagittate pocket ; lobes oblong or obovate, slightly 

 longer than broad, 8-12 lin. long, obscurely acuminate, usually minutely 

 cuspidate. Anthers 3 lin. long ; apical tails reaching to or beyond the 

 corolla-mouth. — A. speciosum, Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 108 not 

 of Fenzl. A. No. 2, Oliv. I.e. A. obesum, Balf. f. in Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Edin. xxxi. 161 partly; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 319, and 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 453 (?) not of Roem. & Schult. 



wile Iiand. Uganda : Bari district, Speke ^ Orant, 766 ! Upper Nile, 

 Freeman & Lucas, 75 ! British East Africa: East shore of Lake KudolF, Wellby, 

 98 ! 20-60 miles inland from Mombasa, JBinns ! Johnston ! near Momh^isa, 

 midebrandt, 105 B! Joravu, Wakefield! Ribe, Wakefield! Witu, Thomas, 130! 



IMCozamb. Slst. German East Africa : around Kilimanjaro, New ! Usambar.i 

 Tanga, Volkens, 145 ! on a plain by the Wami River, Hildehrandt, 1005 

 Usaramo; Muhonyera, Speke, Sf Grant! Uiusuru; steppe forest, near Behobeho, 

 north of Kongulio, Stuhlmann, 9319 (ex Schumann). 



This species is undoubtedly very closely allied to A. obesum, Boem. & Schult.; 

 but in this the flowers are produced on leafless branches, the leaves are not so con- 

 sjucuously cuneate and the corolla-lobes almost orbicular. 



3. A. speciosum, Fenzl in Sitzungsh. Akacl. Wien. Math.-Nat. li. 

 140. Trunk conical, 4 ft. high or more, 2-3 ft. thick at the base, 

 scantily branched at the top ; young branches silky-tomentose, elongate. 

 Leaves oblanceolate or linear-oblong, rounded at the apex or slightly 

 retuse, mucronulate, rather suddenly or (rarely) gradually narrowed at 

 the base, 2-4 in. long, 4-10 lin. broad, softly tomentose on both sides, 

 rarely glabrous ; secondary nerves oblique, very faint, 2 J-3 lin. apart ; 

 petiole stout, very short or 0. Inflorescence racemose, forked almost 

 from the base, few- or many-flowered; branches stout, lJ-3 in. long, 



• tomentose, with numerous subulate bracts 2-3 lin. long ; pedicels very 

 short and stout. Calyx hairy, 3-3 J lin. long ; sepals subulate from a 

 triangular base. Corolla deep pink ; infra-staminal part 4-5 lin. long, 

 with 5 hairy lines descending to or beyond the middle, glabrous at the 

 base within, supra-staminal part funnel-shaped, |-1 in. long, villous 

 within ; throat-scales very short, decurrent on one side, confluent at the 

 base, forming an obversely sagittate pocket ; lobes suborbicular, minutely 

 cuspidate. Anthers 3 J lin, long ; apical tails reaching to the mouth. 

 Follicles linear-spindle-shaped, tomentose, reflexed, 5-7 in. long. Seeds 

 5 lin. long, striate; coma 10-12 lin. long, reddish. 



Nile I.and. South-West Kordofan: Jebel (Mount) Hedra, Kotschy, 399 1 

 Sennar ; near Fazokl, and Jebel Akaro, Kotschy, 399 ! 



4. A. somalense, Balf. f. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. xxxi. 162. A 

 shrub, perfectly glabrous, except the inflorescence ; branches succulent, 

 from 1-6 lin. thick. Leaves linear-oblong to linear, mucronulate, 

 shortly acute at the base, 1 J-2 J in. long, 1-9 lin. broad, succulent, midrib 



