Adenium.] Lxxxiv, apocynace.« (staff). 229 



distinct, otherwise nerveless ; petiole very short or 0. Cymes subsessile, 

 few- to 1 -flowered, terminal or pseudo-axillary, more or less hairy; 

 bracts subulate; pedicels 2 lin. long. Calyx o lin. long, hairy ; sepals 

 lanceolate, subulate. Corolla pink ; infra-staminal part of the tube 

 3-3J lin. long with 5 hairy lines descending almost to the middle, 

 glabrous below, supra-staminal part wide funnel-shaped or tubular, 

 7 lin. long, with 5 villous lines inside ; throat-scales small, scarcely 

 decurrent, confluent and forming an obversely triangular pocket ; lobes 

 obovate, shortly acuminate, 6 lin. long. Anthers 2-'2h lin. long; apical 

 tails exserted. — Schweinf. & Volkens, Liste PI. Voy. Ghika-Comanesti 

 Somal. 9. 



Wile Iiand. Somaliland : Berbera, Plai/fair, 3 ! " Djedaofnio." Miss EcUfh 

 Cole ! Darror, James Sf Thrupp ! and without precise locality, Mrs. Lort Philips. 



5. A. Honghel, A. DC. in DC. Prod. viii. 412, not of Lindl. A 

 shrub, 6-10 ft. high, with a large trunk and soft-wooded stout branches, 

 glabrous except the inflorescence and tips of the branches, leafless when 

 in flower. Leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, narrowed 

 towards the base, 3-4 in. long, 8-10 lin. broad, glabrous ; secondary 

 nerves oblique; petiole C^). Cymes much contracted, 2-10-flowered, 

 terminal, sessile, preceded by more or less numerous deciduous triangular 

 indurated bud-scales, hairy ; bracts lanceolate, 2-3 hn. long ; pedicels 

 very short. Calyx 3-4 lin.- long, hairy ; sepals lanceolate. Corolla 

 crimson ; infra-staminal part of the tube 4-5 lin. long with 5 hairy 

 lines descending almost to the middle, glabrous below, supra-staminal 

 part tubular or funnel-shaped, 9-12 lin. long, scantily villous within; 

 throat-scales obscure, almost wholly confluent and forming an obversely 

 triangular pocket ; lobes rotundate-ovate, 6-8 lin. long, very minutely 

 or not at all mucronate. Anthers 2-2^ lin. long ; apical tails more or 

 less exserted. Follicles 4-6 in. long. " Seeds 6 lin. long, coma 1 in. 

 long. — Hook. Niger. Fl. 450 



Upper Guinea. Lower Seneeal region: Oualo; Lanipsar, Hoger, 133! Oualo 

 and Galam, Leprieur, Perrotet ! Niger Territory : Borgu ; near Wawa, Barter, 711 ! 



The plant figured by Lindley in Bot. Reg. xxxii. tab. 54 as A. Honghel is 

 A. arahicum, Balf. f., Bot. Socotra, 161. 



6. A. multiflonim, A7o«2;scA in Peteo-s, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 279, 

 t. xliv. A shrub 4-8 ft. high, leafless when in flower ; branches succulent, 

 stout, glabrous except at the very tips when young. Leaves obovate to 

 oblong, subacute or obtuse, acute or subacuminate at the base, 2-3 in. 

 long, 9-15 lin. broad, subcoriaceous ; midrib rather thin ; nerves faint, 

 though usually distinct, very oblique ; petiole 1-2 lin. long. Cymes 

 much contracted, 5-15-flowered, terminal, sessile, preceded by more or 

 less numerous deciduous triangular indurated bud-scales, hairy ; bracts 

 lanceolate, 2-3 lin. long; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Calyx 3-4 hn. 

 long, hairy ; sepals lanceolate. Corolla white or pink, conspicuously 

 cuspidate in bud ; infra-staminal part of the tube 3-4 hn. long, with 

 b hairy lines descending almost to the middle, glabrous below, supra- 

 staminal part funnel-shaped, villous within, 9-12 lin. long; throat- 



