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STROPHANTHUS dichotomus; £. chinensis. 
Chinese Strophanthus. 
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© PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ^ 
Nat. ord. APOCYNEE. Brown in Wern. trans. 1. 59. Ejusd. prodr. 
465. . Sect. I. Semina comosa. Fructus bifollicularis, nunc Capsule bilo- 
cularis. 
STROPHANTHOS. Cor. infundibuliformis. Faux coronata squa- 
mulis 10 indivisis. Zimbi lacinie caudate. Stamina medio tubo inserta. 
Anthere sagittate, aristate v. mucronate. Germina 2. Stylus 1, filifor- 
mis, apice dilatato. Stigma subcylindraceum. Squame 5, hypogyne. 
Folliculi *****, Frutices sarmentosi. Folia opposita. Brown in wem. 
traus, 1. 72. 
S. dichotomus, ramis pedunculisque dichotomis, foliis mucronato-acuminatis. 
Persoon syn. 1.999, —— 
Strophanthus dichotomus, Decand. in ann. du mus. 1. 408. Id. in bulletin 
des sc. par la soc. philom. n. 64. 123. Lamarck encyc. 7. 471. Smith in 
Rees's cyelop. in loco, 
Nerium cordatum. Lamarck excyc. 3. 458. Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. 
Nerium scandens. Loureiro cochin. 116. 
Echites dichotoma. Carey beng. 20. 
Echites caudata. Lin, mant. 52. Burm. ind. 68. 1.26. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 
1240. 
(x) cochinchinensis, segmentis calycinis erectis brevissimis transverse latiori- 
bus. 
(8) chinensis, segmentis calycinis bracteisque erectis transversé magnoperà 
angustioribus. u . . 
(y) coromandelianus, segmentis calycinis bracteisque recurvatis. 
Frutex scandens? rami oppositi cortice fusco verruculoso-scabrato. Fol. 
opposita, in summis ramis numerosa approximata, oblongo-v. obovato-lanceo- 
lata, saturaté viridia, nitida; pet. brevis: stinule collaterali-gemine, 
parvule, virides, intraazillares, semiovato-lanceolate. Flores inter folia 
ad finem ramorum, plures, dichotomo-cymosi, chloroleuci, biunciales v. 
ultrà; bractew engusie, lanceolate, erecta. Cal. campanulatus, 4 uncie 
vir ns, virens, 5-fidus segmentis lineari-acuminatis erectis canalicu- 
latis formi moleque ferè bractearum; squamule 5 hypogynz virentes subor- 
biculate. Cor. infundibuliformis, estivatione contortá: tubus cum fauce 
turbinata-contractus subsemuncialis angulosus, solus vir exeedens calycem 
constrictus striato-rugatus, faux angulosa intüs velutina punctis stritsque 
densé consitis punicans; limbus maximus, sesquiuncialis, equalis, recur- 
vato-patens, laciniis stellato-distantibus, caudato-attenuatis, convoluto- 
canaliculatis, infern? intús colore faucis: corona faucis è squamis 5 cuti- 
eulosis coloratis. bifidis basi divisurarum limbi adnatis, lobis dentifor- 
mibus -obtusissimis. Fil. pallida, breviter intra faucem libera, indé infra 
omnind adnata fauci ad orificium tubi usque, forma obversé clavatá, pro- 
minentia, lanuginosa: anth. erecta, sagitlate, aristato-elongate, conniventes, 
ockroleuce. Germ. viride, subrotundo-didymum, quadrilobo-suleatum, gla- 
brum, fundo glanduloso calycis incubans: stylus feré NERIL, albus, clavato- 
Jiliformis, pruinosus, suturá utrinque notatus, ut si ex binis conferruminatis: 
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