Strophanthus. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACE# (STAPF), 17) 
broad, thin, membranous; secondary nerves 5-6 on each side, faint ; 
veins quite inconspicuous ; petiole almost 0 or up to 1 lin. long. Cymes 
terminal, peduncled, few-flowered ; peduncle 4—10 lin. long, slender ; 
bracts foliaceous, linear, obtuse, up to 4 lin. long; pedicelsslender, up to 
4 lin. long, sometimes pubescent. Calyx foliaceous, spreading, 5-6 lin. 
long; sepals linear-oblong or linear, outer ones broader, more or less 
obtuse. Corolla white turning yellow, with purple streaks in the throat : 
infra-staminal part of the tube 4-5 lin. long, supra-staminal part very 
suddenly widened, wide-cupshaped, 2 lin. long; lobes triangular, 2 lin. 
long, produced into filiform tails 2 in. long, yellowish-green; throat- 
seales triangular or linear-obtuse, 1-1} lin. long, scarlet. Anthers 
included, almost reaching the mouth, glabrous, mucronate. Ovary 
glabrous.—Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 sér. v. 281; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 670 ; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. FI. 
Congo, i. 41; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 155. 8. Dewevrei, De Wild. 
in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 40 and Relig. Dewevr. 
154; Gilg Le. 
OS rtebag Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; Queta Mountains, rare, Welwitsch, 
9994 ! 
_ South Central. Congo Free State: Luebo, on the Lulua River, Laurent’ 
Nyangwe, on the River Lualaba, Dewevre, 1058. 
16. S. arnoldianus, De Wild. ¢: Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. 
Bot. Bely. xxviii. 206. A rambling, perfectly glabrous shrub; branches 
slender, dark reddish-brown, sparingly lenticellate. Leaves ovate 
or broad-elliptic, abruptly and more or less obtusely acuminate, rounded 
at the base, 23-31 in. long, 14-2? in. broad, chartaceous ; secondary 
herves 4 on each side; petiole 21 lin. long. Inflorescences terminal, 
dichotomous ; bracts linear, membranous, 5-6 lin. long, less than } lin. 
broad ; pedicels slender, 7-10 lin. long. Calyx 24 lin. long; sepals 
subsimilar, lanceolate, 3-1 lin. broad, acute. Corolla very minutely 
puberulous on both sides; tube funnel-shaped, 3-3} lin. long; lobes 
ovate, 13-2 lin. long, abruptly produced into filiform tails 2-23 in, 
‘ong ; throat-scales ovate, rotundate, very short. Anthers acuminate, 
3 lin, long, glabrous on the back. Follicles brown, lenticellate. Seeds 
ovate-elliptic, brown, silky, 6 lin. long, 2 lin. broad.—Gilg in Engl. 
ahrb. xxxii, 156. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kitobola, in the Cataract district, Kindé. 
17. S. wildemanianus, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 159. A 
Perfectly glabrous climbing shrub; branches slender, Leaves oblong, 
narrowly acutely and obliquely long acuminate, rounded at the base, 
33-4 in, long, 1} in. broad, papery ; secondary nerves 11—12 on each 
side, sub-horizontal, like the loosely reticulating veins slightly promi- 
hent on both sides; petiole 4-4} lin. Jong. Flowers (only known in the 
young state) in loose, few-flowered cymes on the ends of the branches ; 
peduncle and pedicels slender, the latter 4-43 lin. long; bracts small, 
narrow, linear. Calyx 34-4 lin. long; sepals linear, very acute, 
