2o0 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [Adeniicm* 



scales small, confluent and forming an obversely triangular pocket; 

 lobes broad ovate, shortly acuminate and conspicuously cuspidate. 

 Anthers :> lin. long, densely villous ; apical tails exserted. Follicles 

 reflexed, spindle-shaped, finely tomentose, 7 in. long. Seeds G lin. 

 long, coma 15 lin. long. 



Mozamb. Uist. Portuguese East Africa; Lower Zambesi; Tete, Peters; 

 opposite .Sena, Kirk, 97 ! Sena Hill, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland : 

 between Matope and Livingstonia, Scott ! 



Probably also near Delagoa Bay and in the Transvaal. 



43. PACHYPODIUM, Lindl. ; Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PI. ii. 722. 



Calyx small, herbaceous, eglandular within ; sepals 5, ovate or lan- 

 ceolate. Corolla salver-shaped, with the cylindric tube widened below 

 the middle, constricted at the base, or funnel-shaped to campanulate 

 with a short cylindric basal tube, naked at the mouth ; lobes 5, twisted, 

 overlapping to the right. Stamens inserted above the constriction ; 

 filaments very short, flattened ; anthers conniving in a cone, included, 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, sagittate ; appendages longer or 

 shorter than the polliniferous part ; tails sometimes very short : foot of 

 the connective channelled and glabrous above, with a tongue-shaped 

 projection and sometimes a brush-like cushion below, decurrent on the 

 filament and passing into the hairy filamental ridges. Disc cupulai-, 

 slightly .")-lobed or replaced by 2-5 distinct glands. Carpels 2, free ; 

 style filiform, short; stigma subcylindric with an annular rim or 

 membrane at the base, very obscurely and obtusely 2-lobed ; ovules 

 numerous, pluriseriate. Mericarps follicular, 2, erect or spreading, 

 elongate, spindle-shaped. Seeds oblong, with an apical coma ; endo- 

 sperm scanty ; cotyledons ovate-cordate, flat ; radicle short. — Succv.lent 

 shrubs, sometimes with a much swollen trunk. Leaves in spirals, sub- 

 sessile, stipulate ; stipules transformed into rigid spines or the leaves 

 suppressed with the exception of a terminal rosette, and the spinous 

 stipules crowded more or less irregularly on the swollen branches. 

 Cymes terminal, few- or many-flowered, sessile or peduncled; floweis 

 pink, white, or yellow. 



Spccios 12, 1 in tropical Africa; 5 in South Africa, 6 in Madagascar. 



1. P. Ijealiiy Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 43, t. xvi. A shrub, 

 10-15 ft. high, full of a watery, resinous and viscid juice, covered with 

 pairs of rigid spines. Trunk succulent, 2-3 ft. in circumference near 

 the base, grey, sparingly branched from the middle ; young branchlets 

 and spines purplish. Leaves in spirals, few, usually only near the tips 

 of the young branchlets, oblong-lanceolate, scarcely 1 lin. long, mem- 

 branous, with a strong midrib terminating in a subulate acumen, soon 

 deciduous; stipules spiny, 1-1 J in. long. Cymes many-flowered, 

 glabrous, up to 6-7 in. in diam, ; peduncle stout, of variable length ; 

 pedicels stout, 1 J-4 lin. long ; bracts scale-like, triangular, acute, soon 

 deciduous Calyx glabrous lJ-2 lin. long; sepals ovate, acuminate. 



