172 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEH (STAPF). [ Strophanthus. 
staminal part 7} lin. long, 2 lin. wide, supra-staminal part gradually 
widened, 1-1} lin. long; lobes long-tailed from a triangular base, 
densely hairy on both sides ; tails very slender, over 4 in. long, }—# lin. 
broad; throat-scales ovate-linear, glabrous. Anther-tips slightly ex- 
serted, acute. Ovary long and densely tomentose. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Mzimu, on Lake Tanganyika, Descamps, 
30. 
Gilg compares this species with S. Nicholsoni, Holmes ; the description of the 
flowers seems tov me to point rather to S. Ledienit. 
5. S. Emini, Asch. & Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 366, 383, tt. x. xi. 
A rambling shrub, up to 12-15 ft. high; branches tomentose when 
young, glabrescent, greyish-brown. Leaves broad ovate, or elliptic, 
obtuse or acute, rounded or acute at the base, 4 in. long, 3 in. broad, 
subcoriaceous, pubescent above, tomentose beneath ; secondary nerves 
7-9 on each side, distinct below; veins more or less obscured by the 
tomentum ; petiole up to 2} lin. long. Flowers in sessile lateral and 
terminal clusters on leafless elongate branches; bracts broad, ovate, 
pubescent, 2-3 lin. long; pedicels very short or almost 0. Calyx 
foliaceous, 5 lin. long, densely pubescent ; sepals ovate, obtuse, with the 
tips more or less recurved. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, pubescent 
without, infra-staminal part 7 lin. long, supra-staminal part slightly 
shorter; lobes long-tailed from an ovate base; tails 3-4 in. long; 
throat-scales 3-34 lin. long. Anthers included, acute. Ovary hispid, 
Follicles 8-12 in. long, woody, shaggy from closely set cylindric villous 
warts, greyish. Seeds oblong, golden-silky, 14 lin. long, ? lin. broad ; 
awn naked for 8-9 lin., with the hairs up to 23 in. long.—Franch. 
Nouv. Arch, Mus. Paris, 3 sér. v. (1893), 275; K.Schum. in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182, and in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 319, 
Engl. lc. A. 50; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 453; Busse 10 
Tropenpfl, iv. (1900), 596, 597, v. (1901), 106 ; Holmes in Pharm. Journ. 
xii. (1901), 487; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 155, S. Fischeri, Hartwich 
in Arch. Pharm. Bd. 230, 421. 8. Stuhlmanni, Pax in Ber. Deutsch. 
Pharm. Ges. iii. 44. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Irangi district, Fischer, 382! Ugog?; 
Ipala, Stuhlmann, 354; Mpwapwa, Stuhlmann, 263. Ruaha River, 2000 ft» 
Goetze, 455! British Central Africa : Urungu; Abercorn and Kituta, ex Holmes. 
6. S. Nicholsoni, Holmes in Pharm. Journ. v. (1897) 209. A 
small shrub, 3-4 ft. high, with the habit of Ribes sanguinewm ; branches 
densely tomentose when young, at length glabrous, greyish-brow?. 
Young leaves ovate, obtuse, about 5 lin. long, densely velvety, greyish ; 
petioles very short. Flowers in few-flowered clusters or solitary ? 
very short branchlets along the leafless branches of last year’s gr owth ; 
bracts linear ; pedicels very short. Calyx 3-3? lin. long ; sepals erect, 
unequal, linear, acute. Corolla pubescent all over ; infra-staminal part 
of the tube 3 lin. long, supra-staminal part funnel-shaped, over 2 iin. 
long, yellow with dark purple lines and spots; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
pinkish, tinged with brown, about 4—4} lin. long, passing into purP 
tails up to 2}-4 in. long; throat-scales obtuse, 1 lin. long. Anthers 
