Strophanthus. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACEHX (STAPF). 177 
broad, obtuse, papillose. Anthers included, 1} lin. long, with a short very 
fine point, tomentose on the back. Ovary hairy.—Franch. in Nouv. Arch. 
Mus. Paris, 3 sér. xv. 279; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii, 182, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 230; and in Schlechter, Westafr. 
Kautschuk-Exped. 307; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 670; De 
Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 41; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 
155, 159. S. bracteatus, De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 
41 and Relig. Dewevy. ii. 154, not of Franch. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi, Johnson, 150! Togo, Baumann, 591A! 
Lagos, Ojnwaye, Millen, 27! Otta, Barter, 3322! Abeokuta, Harrison, 6! 
interior, Rowland ! Ishagamo, Schlechter. South Nigeria : Old Calabar, Thomson, 
9! Monteiro! Hollund, 22! 100! Cross River, at Ikorofion, Holland, 33! 
Cameroons: Johann Albrechtshéhe, Staudt, 664! Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 301! 
pl ? Zenker, 244! and without precise locality, Preuss, 116! Fernando Po, Mann, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; bushy places at Santo Antonio, 
Welwitsch, 5995! Golungo Alto ; in woods between the River Delamboa and the 
Capopa spring, Welwitsch, 5996 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: in thickets ona humid plain by the River 
Congo at Bombati, near Ndobo, 1300 ft., Thonner. Bokakata on the River Lulonga, 
Dewevre, 809 ! 
: A pair of follicles collected by G, Mann in Fernando Po in 1860 (about the same 
time as the flowering specimen No. 177, quoted above) belongs very probably to 
S. Preussii, The follicles are hornshaped with rather obtuse ends, 10 in. long, 
1} in. in. diam., reddish-brown and smooth. The seeds are oblong-lanceolate, obtuse 
at the base, long acuminate, brown, downy, 5-6 lin. long ; the naked foot of the awn 
measures 13-2 in., the plume 3-1 in. 
12. S. Barteri, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vii. 323. A small 
scandent shrub; branches glabrous even when young, reddish-brown, 
dotted with minute lenticels. Leaves ovate to oblong, shortly acum- 
inate, rounded at the base, 2-21 in. long, 12-16 lin. broad, mem- 
branous, firm when mature, quite glabrous; secondary nerves 5-6 on 
each side, faint; veins inconspicuous. Cymes terminal, peduncled, 
dichotomous, very loose, minutely puberulous; peduncle }—2 in. long; 
bracts conspicuous, foliaceous, thin, oblong or ovate from a constricted 
se, 5 lin. long, obtuse, crisp; pedicels up to 5 lin. long. Calyx 
oliaceous, 7 lin. long; sepals oblong-spathulate from a narrow base, 
spreading or with the tips recurved, minutely puberulous. Corolla 
yellow and chocolate-brown, streaked, puberulous without and within ; 
infra-staminal part of the tube 34 lin. long, supra-staminal part 
‘ampanulate, 4—41 lin. long ; lobes short, ovate, produced into filiform 
tails 2-3 in, long ; throat-scales triangular, 1-1} lin. long, puberulous. 
Anthers included, 14 lin. long, with fine setaceous tips 1 lin. long, 
ensely tomentose on the back. Ovary hairy.— Franch. in Nouv. Arch. 
Mus. Paris, 3 sér. v. 279, t. xi. A.; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 155. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos : interior, Rowland! Abeokuta, Barter, 3346! 
13. S, bracteatus, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vii. 324. A 
perfectly glabrous climbing shrub; branches very slender and long, 
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