ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a comprehensive review of Hunteria which is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae found in tropical and southern Africa. It presents information on character, habitat, phenotypic charater and distribution of H. congolana and H. zeylanica. Shrubs or trees, rarely lianas, glabrous in all parts except inside the corolla tube; white or colourless latex present in all parts. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence mostly terminal, sometimes also axillary, few-many-flowered cymes, dense to lax, pedunculate. Sepals free or connate, with colleters covering about half of the sepal length. Fruit smooth or warty, of two separate mericarps, with a rounded to beaked apex.
