246 LXXXI. APOCYNE-ffi. 



spreading ; anthers in the throat, sagittate, conniving (but not 

 cohering) in a half-exserted cone, tipped \N^th empty crests 

 filaments very short. An annular disk girding the ovary. 

 Carpels 2, separate ; style single, cup-like at the summit, with 

 2 retrorsely barbed appendages ; stigma 2-lobed. Follicles 2, 

 berry-like, widely spreading, with thick rind. Seeds many, 

 ovoid, nude, lying in pulp. — DC. Prod. \m. p. 357. 



P. Dregei is a large tree, growing in swamps at Natal. Leaves opposite, 

 with an interpetiolar ring, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Flowers jellowish- 

 wliite, handsome, in terminal cymes. 



5. TABERNJEMONTANA, Plum. 



Calyx 5-parted, with linear glands inside at the base of the 

 lobes. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube inflated below or above, 

 mostly narrower in the middle ; throat nude, rarely glandular ; 

 lobes obtuse. Stamens in the swollen jmrt of corolla-tube ; 

 anthers on very short filaments, mostly sagittate, taper- 

 pointed, rarely linear, mostly included. Disk 0. Carpels 2, 

 separate, appressed, glabrous ; style simple, glabrous ; stigma 

 among the anthers, with a basal ring, capitate, 2-lobed. Fol- 

 licles 2 or 1, hnear-oblong or subglobose, more or less fleshy, 

 pulpy ; ovules many ; seeds few or many, lying m pulp.^Z)C. 

 Frod. viii. p. 361. 



Tropical trees and shrubs : branches often forked. Leaves opposite, the 

 petioles short, often expanded or connate at base in false interpetiolar 

 stipules. Cymes axillary and often in terminal pairs ; flowers white or 

 yellow. — 2 species, at !Xatal. 



6. GONIOMA, E. Mey. 



Calyx 5-parted; lobes glandless, ovate, obtuse, crenulate. 

 Corolla salver-shaped,»the tube from the middle rather wdder 

 and angular, constricted at the summit, hairy within from the 

 middle to the apex ; throat without appendage ; lobes ovate- 

 cordate, obtuse. Stamens 5, inserted a httle above the middle 

 of the tube ; anthers oblong, 2-lobed at base, obtuse, much 

 longer than the very slender filaments. Disk 0. Carpels 2, 

 subconnate at base, ovoid-acute, glabrous ; style 1 ; stigma 

 ovoid-oblong, 2-lobed. Follicles terete, widely spreading ; 

 seeds flat, with an oblong, encircling netted wing. — DC. Prod. 

 viii. p. 387. 



An erect, glabrous undcrshrub, witli opposite, narrow, leathery leaves, and 

 terminal cymes of yellow flowers. — Native of the Northern frontier. 



7. STROPHANTHUS, DC. 



Calyx 5-parted ; the lobes at base within furnished with 

 glands. Corolla with a funnel-shaped tube, its lobes linear- 

 subulate, much longer than the tube, broad-based ; throat fur- 



