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nished with a 2-fid or 2-parted scale alternating with each 

 lobe. Stamens inserted in the lower part of the tube ; fila- 

 ments linear, thickish ; anthers linear-sagittate, adhering to 

 the stigma, mucronate or aristate, sometimes dorsally hispid. 

 Disk 0. Carpels 2, ovoid or subglobose, many-ovuled ; style 

 1 ; stigma capitate, cylindrical, ringed at base. Follicles (in 

 S. Capensis) solitary, lanceolate-acuminate, rigid ; seeds li- 

 near-oblong, compressed, acute, with an ample, silky apical 

 coma ; embryo nearly as long as the horny albumen ; radicle 

 very long. — DC. Prod. viii. p. 417. Also Christya, Ward 

 and Harv. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. p. 134. t. 21 ; DC. I. c. 

 416. 



Climbing or rarely erect African and Asiatic shrubs ; leaves opposite or 

 whorled ; cymes terminal, laxly-flowered ; lobes of corolla 1-2 inches long, 

 very narrow. — 2 species ; 1 in Caffraria, the other at Natal. 



8. ADENIUM, Ecem. and Sch. 



Calyx 5-parted ; the lobes lanceolate, glandular within. 

 Corolla- tube cylindrical and narrow at base, then swollen, 

 pubescent on both sides^ the swollen part longer than the 

 narrow, cylindrical-funnel-shaped ; lobes shorter than the 

 tube, obtuse. Stamens on the top of the narrow portion of 

 the tube ; anthers linear-sagittate, attached to the stigma, 

 much longer than the filaments, 5 ovate glands circling the 

 ovary. Carpels 2, ovate, compressed, glabrous ; ovules many ; 

 style 1 ; stigma capitate, 2-dentate, with a basal ring. Fol- 

 licles ? Seeds (in J. Honglwl, fide DC.) cylindrical-prismatic, 

 comose at both ends, the lower coma less caducous. — DC 

 Prod. viii. p. 411 ; Thes. Cap. t. 117. 



A. Namaqnanum, Wyl. (the "Elephant's Trunk") is a singular shrub of 

 Namaqualand, having a thick and fleshy trvmk 5-6 feet higli, tapering up- 

 wards, tubcrculated tliroughout, each tubercle armed with 2 long, straight 

 spines ; the apex of the stem crowned with a tuft of obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 velvety, ribbed leaves 4-5 inches long, among which are short, few- 

 flowered cymes of purple flowers. 



9. PACHYPODIUM, Lindl. 



Calyx 5-parted ; lobes lanceolate, without internal basal 

 glands or scales. Corolla with a 5-angled cylindrical or some- 

 what funnel-shaped tube, externally puberulent, internally, be- 

 low the insertion of the stamens, furnished with 5 reversely 

 hairy lines, without scales ; lobes 5, spreading. Anthers ses- 

 sile above the middle of the tube, sagittate, with or without a 

 terminal crest, attached to the stigma, (xlands 5, fleshy, 

 girding the ovary. Carpels 2, ovate, glabrous ; ovules man}' ; 

 style 1 ; stigma oblong, shortly 2-fid. Follicles compressed, 



