180 UXXXIV, APOCYNACEH (STAPF). [ Strophanthus. 
yellowish, $ lin. broad. Corolla (in bud) with the tails not quite 1 in. 
long; tube shorter than the calyx. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kimuenza, Gillet, 2083. 
Closely allied, according to Gilg, to S. arnoldianus. 
18. S. sarmentosus, 4. P. DC. in Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, iii. 
123, t. viii. fig. 1. A tall, climbing shrub, quite glabrous; branches 
brown, rough, conspicuously dotted with lenticels. Leaves opposite or 
ternate, ovate to oblong, more or less acuminate, acute or obtuse at the 
base, 2-4 lin. long, 14-2} lin. broad, firm, papery ; secondary nerves 
4-5 on each side, faint in young, prominent below in old leaves ; veins 
rather distinct; petiole 2-4 lin. long. Cymes terminal, sessile, few- to 
1-flowered on short lateral branches, which are for the most part leaf- 
less, or with young leaves or young leafy shoots ; bracts ovate or oblong, 
2-4 lin. long,acute or obtuse ; pedicels very short. Calyx 4~7 lin. long; 
sepals lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Corolla white, 
with pink marks inside, glabrous without, minutely puberulous within ; 
infra-staminal part of the tube 3-3} lin. long, supra-staminal part 
wide, funnel-shaped or campanulate, 6-9 lin. long; lobes ovate or 
lanceolate, produced into linear tails 2-2} in. long; throat-scales purple, 
subulate from a broader base, 3-4 lin. long. Anthers 24 lin. long, 
terminating in a bristle about ? lin. long, glabrous. Follicles spread- 
ing horizontally, spindle-shaped, 8~12 in. long, 10 lin. thick, glabrous, 
almost smooth above, with lenticels in the lower part. Seeds spindle- 
shaped, brown, silky, 5-6 lin. long; awn 2-3 in. long, naked for 3-2 in., 
hairs up to 14 in. long —A. P. DC. in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 
i, 410, t. 27, fig. 1, and Strophanthus, ii. 2, 3, t. 1; Poiret in Dict. Se. 
Nat. li. 149; A. DC. Prod. viii. 418; Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, 
451; Christy, New Comm. Plants and Drugs, No. 10 (1887), 27; Pax 
in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 374 (vars. eusarmentosus and pendulus) ; Franch. 10 
Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 sér. v. 282. and in Journ. de Bot. viii. 204; 
K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182 partly, and 1D 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©. 319; L. Planch. Prod. Apocyn. 79; Durand & 
Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 191; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fi. 
Congo, ii. 40; K, Schum. in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped: 
307; Payrau, Strophanthus, 85-87, 163, with figs.; Gilg in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxxii. 156,161. Var. major, Dewevre in Journ. Pharm. Anvers, 
1894, 5-7 (of abstract). S. Senegambie, A. DC. Prod. viii. 418. 
S. pendulus, Kumm. & Hook. in Gray & Dochard, Trav. West Afr. 
392, t. C.; A. DC. Prod. viii. 419; Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. 451. 
S. laurifolius, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 375 (Perrottet’s plant, also ° 
DC. ?); Benth, in Hook. Niger Fl. 451; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl. 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182. S. Paroissei, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. v4 
320, and in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 sér. v. 290, t. xvi.; L. Planch. 
Prod. Apocyn. 58, 83; Payrau, Strophanthus, 88-91, 163, with figs-; 
De Wild. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 sér. i. 35. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Richard Toll, Leprieur ; Cayor, Lepriew’, and 
without precise locality, Leprieur, 457, 467. Heudelot, 337! Boivin! Gambis 
