Strophanthus. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACE (STAPF). 173 
filaments glabrous. Ovary hairy. Follicles purple, lenticellate, 54-9 
in. long. Seeds oblong, 7 lin. long, 24 lin. broad, velvety, brownish- 
white; awn naked for almost 2 in., then plumose for 24 in.—Payrau, 
Strophanthus, 133; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 154. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: from Lusengasia in the Senga 
Country to the upper Loangwa River, Nicholson ! 
7. S. Kombe, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1098. A rambling or 
climbing shrub; branches hispid tomentose when young, glabrescent, 
ultimately grey or black, scabrid, dotted with large white lenticels, 
rather stout. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, acute or apiculate, obtuse 
at the base, 3-34 in. long, 13-21 in. broad, rather thick, densely and 
coarsely tomentose on both sides when young, glabrescent and scabrid 
above when mature; nerves 6-7 on each side, rather oblique; veins 
rather distinct below; petiole very short, Cymes terminal on short 
branches with the young leaves (sometimes before the leaves), few- 
flowered, hispid ; peduncle very short; bracts subulate, 3 lin. long; 
pedicels slender, 3-5 lin. long. Calyx hispid-tomentose, 5-7 lin. long ; 
sepals lanceolate-linear or linear-subulate, slightly imbricate at the base. 
Corolla yellowish-white, pubescent without, infra-staminal part 3-4 lin. 
long, supra-staminal part campanulate or shortly funnel-shaped, 3-4 
lin. long; lobes produced into a long tail from an ovate base; tails 3-5 
in. long; throat-scales very short, obtuse, densely papillose. Anthers 
included, acute, 24 in. long. Follicles spreading at right angles, tapering 
from below the middle, 9-15 in. long, up to 1 in. thick. Seeds lanceo- 
late- to elliptic-oblong, drab to fawn-coloured, silky, 7-9 lin. long ; awn 
naked for 2 in., including the hairs 5-6 in. long.—Fraser in Journ. 
Anat. and Physiol. vii. 142 in footnote; Christy, New Comm. Plants 
and Drugs, No. 9 (1886), 53-61, No. 10 (1887), 9, 10, fig. 3, 14-15, 
No. 11 (1887), 14; Elborne in Pharm, Journ. xvii. 743-747 ; Gerrard 
in Pharm. Journ. xvii. 923; Blondel, Stroph. du Comm. 38, and in Brit. 
and Colon. Druggist (1888), 590, with fig.; Buchanan in Pharm. Journ. 
xvill, 748 ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 366, 383, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
B. 515, 520; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182, 
and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©. 319; Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 
3 sér. v. 273; L. Planch, Prod. Apocyn. 49, 53, fig. 6, 54, fig. 7, 56, fig. 8, 
82; Perrédés in Pharm. Journ. xi. (1900), 241-246, 270, figs. 1-59 ; 
Hartwich, Neue Arzneidrog. 323; Brit. Pharmacop. (1898), 313; 
hite & Humphrey, Pharmacop. 471, t. xliii., figs. 2,a and b; Payrau, 
Strophanthus, 71-84, 163, with figs.; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 155. 
S. hispidus, Oliv. ex Fraser in Proc. Roy. Soe. Edinb. vii. (1869-70), 
101, and in Trans, Roy. Soc. Edinb. xxxv. t. iii. (for the greatest 
part), and in Journ. Anat. and Physiol. vii. 139-155; Christy, Le. 
No. 10 (1887), 12-13, not of A. DC. S. Aispidus, var. Kombe, Holmes 
‘0 Pharm. Journ. and Trans. xxi. (1890), 233. 
D Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usaramo, 1000 ft., Goetze, 24! 
ondeland, Busse, 563! Portuguese East Africa: Yao Forest, Steere! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; Manganja Hills, 2000 ft., Meller! Shibisa, Kirk, 24a! 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1121! 
