178 LXXXIV. APOCYNACE® (STAPF). [Strophanthus, 
reddish-brown, scantily dotted with small lenticels, Leaves ovate- 
lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, obtuse at the base, 23-4 in. long, 
1-1} in. broad, papery, firm, whitish beneath ; secondary nerves 6-7 
on each side, faint; veins inconspicuous; petiole 2-24 lin. long. 
Cymes terminal, dichotomous, very loose, few-flowered ; branches 1-2 
in. long, multi-bracteate; bracts foliaceous, whitish or yellowish, 
ovate, 3-31 lin. long; pedicels up to 4 lin. long. Calyx foliaceous, 
5-6 lin. long; sepals very unequal, outer ones ovate-lanceolate, 
3-34 lin. broad near the base, inner ones much narrower, all 
acute. Corolla white, with violet veins minutely puberulous on both 
sides; infra-staminal part of the tube 3-3} lin. long, supra-staminal 
part tubular-campanulate, 4 lin. long ; lobes ovate, produced into filiform 
tails 4-43 in. long; throat-scales very short, ovate, rounded, pulveru- 
lent. Anthers included, densely pubescent on the back, distinctly 
acuminate. Ovary hairy. Follicles slender, 8 in. long, 74 lin. thick, 
brown, glabrous, with oblong or linear lenticels. Seeds fusiform, 
scantily silky, grey, glabrescent, 6 lin. long ; awn plumose almost from 
the base, with the plume 10 lin. long.—Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 
Paris, 3 sér. v. 280, t. xii.; Payrau, Strophanthus, 104-106, 162, with 
figs. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: by the River Ogowe, above Obombi, 
Thollon, 745, on rocks at Boue, Thollon, 744. 9 
Gilg (in Engl, Jahrb. xxxii, 159) considers this as identical with S. Preuss. 
I have not seen an authentic specimen. : 
Franchet (in Journ. de Bot. viii. 204) states that Pobéguin collected this species 
near Grand Bassam, on the Ivory Coast ; but his additional remarks make it almost 
certain that Pobéguin’s plant belongs to a distinct species. 
14. S. erythroleucus, Gily in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 160. _ A 
perfectly glabrous shrub; branches climbing or pendulous, blackish- 
brown. Leaves more or less oblong, acutely and obliquely long “er 
nate, rounded at the base, 22-41} in. long, 14-34 in. broad, su 
chartaceous; secondary nerves 7-9 on each side, somewhat oblique, 
slightly prominent on both sides; veins loosely reticulating, ser 
spicuous; petiole 14 lin. long. Flowers in loose 3—7-flowered cymes 
the end of the branches and branchlets; peduncle 7-12 lin. long 
bracts linear, 34-4 lin. long, 4-3 lin. broad ; pedicels }-2} lin. long: 
Calyx 5 lin. long; sepals linear or lanceolate-linear, narrow acute OF 
obtuse. Corolla whitish, beautifully marked with red; tube nalTow, 
cylindric to 44-5 lin. from the base, then suddenly widened in . 
saucer-shaped portion 1 lin. high; lobes ovate-oblong, up to ” lip. 
long, not quite 2 lin. broad, with filiform tails 10-11 lin. long. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Batanga, in clearings, Dinklage, 841, 1401: 
15, S. parviflorus, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vii. 324- - 
graceful, usually perfectly glabrous rambling and climbing aie 
branches very slender and long, reddish-brown; lenticels minu"™ 
Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate (acumen UP rf 
6 lin. long), rounded or sabcordate at the base, 23} in. long, 1-4 
