LXXXI. AP0CYNEJ3. 



245 



obtuse or pointed. Ovary 2-cellecl, glabrous, wdth a thick 

 septum ; ovules few ; style thickened upwards ; stigma 2- 

 lobed, hairy, falling off. Berry globose or ovoid (eatable), 

 few- or 1-seeded; seeds peltate, scabrous. — DC. Prod. \\\\.p. 

 331. 



Milky shrubs with forked, spreading branches, opposite, rigid leaves and 

 forked or twice-forked spines in tlie forks of the branches. Peduncles di- 

 chotomous, often terminal ; flowers white, sweet-scented. Fruit very deli- 

 cious, plum-like. — 3 or 4 species, in the Eastern districts and at Natal. 



2. TOXICOPHLCEA, Harv. 



Calyx 5-parted, with an obsolete, crenate disk inside at 

 base, "outside the corolla; lobes short. Corolla- tube much 

 longer than the calyx, cylindrical, slightly swollen in the 

 throat, thinly hairy within ; limb of 5 short, ovate, unequal- 

 sided, imbricated lobes. Stamens 5, in the throat, included ; 

 anthers longer than the filaments, cordate. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules solitary ; style elongate, filiform ; stigma conico-capi- 

 tate, 2-fid. Berry ovoid, 1- rarely 2-seeded. — DC. Prod. viii. p. 

 336 ; Harv. Ihes. t. 16. 



Unarmed trees or large shrubs, with poisonous bark. Leaves opposite, 

 rigid, penninerved, glabrous. Flowers in dense, axillary fascicles ; corolla- 

 tube -g-f in. long ; limb 1 line long. — 2 species, in the Eastern district and 

 at Natal. 



3. RAUWOLFIA, Plum. 



Calyx 5-parted or 5-fid ; the lobes not glandular, often ob- 

 tuse. Corolla 5-fid or semi-5-fid ; tube cylindrical, wider at 

 base and apex, mostly hairy within, the throat especially so ; 

 lobes twisted to the right. Stamens inserted in the middle of 

 the corolla-tube or above it ; anthers lanceolate, longer than 

 the filaments. A cup-like disk, often crenate, girding the 

 ovary. Ovary 2-celled, of 2 imperfectly cohering carpels ; 

 ovules 2-5 in each cell ; style about equalling the ovary ; 

 stigma capitate, hairy, 2-fid. Drupe didymous, subglobose, 

 with 2 more or less connate bony cells. — DC. Prod. viii. p. 

 336 ; Sond. in Linn, xxiii. p. 77. 



Shrubs or small trees, chiefly American, with opposite or whorled leaves, 

 and terminal, peduncled cymes or umbels. Flowers small. — 2 species, found 

 at Magalisberg and Natal. 



4. PIPTOL^NA, Harv. 



Calyx tubular-bellshaped, at base within muricated with 

 glands ; lobes ovate, obtuse ; tube after flowering falling off by 

 a circular slit a little above its base. Corolla somewhat funnel- 

 shaped, its tube much more slender than the calyx and 

 scarcely longer, swollen in the throat ; lobes obliquely ovate, 



