Voacanga] Lxxxii. apocynace^. 669- 



tree-shaped shrub. G to 9 ft. high, lactescent ; branches dichotomous, 

 the older ones cylindrical, the yountjer obscurely quadrangular, the 

 youngest ones compressed, two-edged : calyx campanulatc, herbaceous- 

 green, r>-cleft, loosely embracing the corolla, the tube multiglandular 

 at the base inside, the lobesoblong-elliptical and spreading or reflected ; 

 corolla hypogynous. salver-shaped, sulphur-coloured throughout, the 

 tube inflated, spirally twisted dextrorsely, constricted at the throat, 

 the lobes oblong, sinistrorsely contorted in ajstivation, afterwards 

 spread out, oblique ; stamens 5, inserted on the upper part of the 

 corolla-tube, the tips only exserted ; anthers sagittate, hard, ahnost 

 cartilaginous, connivent into a pyramid by their very subulate tips, the 

 divisions at their base diverging ; pistil surrounded by a thick hypo- 

 gynous ring, consisting of 2 mammiform ovaries which laterally coalesce 

 and from the centre of coalescence of which the stjde arises : style 

 simple, rather thick, gradually thickened upwards, bearing at the top 

 in a patelliform dilation the capituliform shortly stalked stigma ; ovules 

 very numerous in each ovary, attached to the suture. In the more 

 elevated forests of the Alto Queta mountains ; fi. May, beginning of 

 Oct., and Xov. 1855. No. 5931. 



Cf. Baillon in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris, i. p. 778 (1889). 



2. V. Thouarsii Eoem. & Schultes, Syst. iv. p. 439 (1819). 



V.obticsa'K. Sclium. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2. 

 p. 149 (1895), and in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 22G (180G). 



Ambaca. — A small tree, 12 to 18 ft. high ; trunk 4 in. in diameter : 

 branches patent ; branchlets dichotomous ; leaves opposite, fasciculate 

 towards the ends of the branchlets, lactescent as well as the branches ; 

 flowers large, whitish, very pleasantly fragrant ; corolla fleshy. In 

 moist deep valleys and along streams from N-gombe in the direction 

 of Puri-Cacarambola, here and there ; fl. middle of Oct. 1856. No. 5977- 



10. TABERNJEMONTANA Plumier, L. ; Benth. & Hook, f. 

 Gen. PL ii. p. 7()G. 



1. T. longiflora Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. p. 447 (1849). 

 Taherna'montana sp., Welw. in Bol. Conselho Ultramar. Lisb., 



No. 7, p. 82 (Aug. 1854). 



Sierra Leone. — A robust, lactescent, much-branched, very elegant 

 shrub ; leaves coriaceous, evergreen, glossy, pallid beneath ; flowers 

 whitish, very pleasantly fragrant ; fruit as large as an orange, geminate- 

 didymous, furrowed in the middle ; seeds numerous. In elevated 

 thickets near Freetown ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1853. No. 5987. A small 

 tree ; seeds, Sept. 1853. Coll. Carp. 718. 



2. T. angolensis Stapf in Kew Bull. 1894, p. 23. 

 Aj)ocynacc((, Welw. Apontam. p. 588, n. 55 (1859). 



PuNGo Andonoo. — A moderate-sized tree, up to 2G ft. high, spiny ; 

 head lax : leaves thickly coriaceous, glossy ; flowers large, white, salver- 

 shaped, very agreeably fragrant ; mericarps 2 together, as large as 

 an orange, spherical. On the shady sides of rocks throughout the 

 prassidium, plentiful : fl. and ripe as well as young fr. usually occurring 

 at the same time : fl. Dec. ISfiG. No. 5989." A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. 

 high, evergreen, with the habit of the genus ; leaves coriaceous ; flowers 

 large, white, fragrant ; mericarps orange-shaped, geminate. In the 

 forests of the prassidium ; seeds May 1857. Coli>. Carp. 731. Fruit 

 geminate, like an orange ; May 1857. Coll. Carp. 722. A small. 



