676 Lxxxii, APOCYNACE^. [PachypodiuJH 



17. PACHYPODIUm Lindl. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 722. 



1. P. Lealii Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. zxvii. p. 43, t. 16 (1869). 



Bumbo. — A small tree, 10 to 18 ft. high, with a curious cactus-like 

 habit, 8 to 16 in. in diameter at the base of its trunk, bristling on all 

 sides with tripartite purple spines ; trunk conical, tapering, simple 

 below, sparingly and patently branched towards the apex ; juice 

 scarcely milky, watery-resinous ; leaves none seen at the time of the 

 inflorescence CKcept the bracts ; flowers large, handsome, bicolorous, 

 fragrant, corymbose, fasciculate, occurring during nearly the whole year, 

 but only in summer bearing fruit ; calyx 5-cleft, the lobes ovate, 

 imbricate ; corolla-tube bearded inside below the insertion of the 

 stamens, naked above, inflated in the middle ; the limb 5-cleft ; the 

 segments rosy purple outside, white inside, unequal-sided, one side 

 entire, the other larger and undulate-crisp ; stamens 5, included ; 

 filaments short or nearly obsolete ; anthers bilocular, sagittate ; the 

 cells opposite, shorter than the produced connective, confluent at the 

 base, converging towards the apex and there surmounted by the 

 apiculate tip of the nearly flat scarcely subulate connective ; style 

 straight, filiform ; stigma thick, mitriform, perforated with 1 or 2 

 apertures at the truncate top ; follicles compressed-cylindrical, geminate, 

 about 7 in. long or leiss, purple ; seeds divaricately comose at the apex. 

 In very dry rocky thickets between Quitibe de Baixo and Quitibe de 

 Cima, common ; fl. and fr. Oct, 1859 and fl. 14 June 1860. No. 1510. 



LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADE^. 



1. CRYPTOLEPIS E,. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 740. 

 Ectadiopsis Benth. in Benth. & Hook. £., I.e., p. 741. 



1. C. microphylla Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, No. 101, 

 p. 84 (804) (1890). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A slender, widely climbing, lactescent shrub ; 

 branches and branchlets reflected patent ; epidermis thinly verrucose, 

 scaling off ; leaves very densely beset with glandular dots, dark green 

 above, subglabrous and glaucous beneath ; calyx very shortly cam- 

 panulate, 5-dentate, tomentellous, green ; corolla somewhat salver- 

 shaped, whitish ; the tube dilated above the base ; the lobes of the 

 limb 5, long, lanceolate, obtuse, spirally convolute towards the left 

 (as seen from above) in aestivation, at the time of the open flower 

 soon corrugated and crisp ; stamens 5, inserted a little above the base 

 of the corolla-tube, included ; filaments very thinly membranous, 

 green ; anthers lance-shaped, with the rather broad connective 

 agglutinated to the stigma, 2-celled, the cells bordering the more or 

 less ovate-acuminate connective ; ovary globose, sessile, green, sub- 

 bilobed ; styles 2, terminating in a large peltate-hemispherical glutinous 

 stigma. In the shady primitive forests of Alto Queta, rare ; fl. middle 

 of Jan. 1856. No. 5939. A scandent, milky shrub. Queta mountains ; 

 fl.-budFeb. No. 5940. 



2. C. triangularis N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 92 (1894), 

 PuNGO Andongo. — A twining, widely-climbing shrub, abounding 



in a blood-red resinous juice, with the habit of StrophantJms intermedins 

 Pax ; leaves thinly and softly coriaceous, deep green without gloss 

 above, greenish-yellowish beneath ; flowers pale orange-yellow ; scales 

 of the corona 5, broadly triangular, horizontally declined, exactly 

 closing the corolla-throat. By thickets in the deep valleys of the 

 rocks of the praesidium ; fl. middle of Nov. 1856. No. 5993. 



