Strophanthus. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACEX (STAPF). 181 
Skues! Ingram ! Brown-Lester, 36! Perrottet ! French Guinea : Labaya, Paroisse. 
Sierra Leone: Scott-Elliot, 4512! 5657! Kirk,39! Don! Smeathman! Hutton! 
Whitfield) Barter! Mann, 3! Ivory Coast: Grand Bassam, Pobéguin. Gold Coast : 
Aburi Hills, Johnson, 288! Ashanti: Akroful, Cummins, 23! Togo, Baumann, 
93! Agome Mountains, Schlechter, 12962! Lagos: Ebu Metta, Millen, 25! 
Abeokuta, Irving / Ikirun, Millson / and without precise locality, Moloney ! 
ag Protectorate : Nupe, Barter, 1325! Old Calabar, Mann, 2246! Thomson, 
! | 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Gillet; near Lemba, Demeuse, 
194! (exclusive of the seeds ?), and without precise locality, Laurent, 
19, S. ogovensis, Franch. in Jowrn. de Bot. vii. 324. A ramb- 
ling or climbing shrub, quite glabrous; branches brown, dotted with 
lenticels, the flowering ones rather stout. Leaves mostly ternate, 
elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, obtuse at the base, 3-3} in. 
long, 14-2 in. broad, firm, papery, glossy ; secondary nerves 5-6 on each 
side, raised below; reticulation distinct; petiole 7-10 lin. long. 
Cymes terminal, few- to 1-flowered, subsessile, produced with the mature 
leaves ; bracts numerous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Calyx 
5-6 lin. long ; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 
large, purple without, whitish within; infra-staminal part of the tube 
3-4 lin, long, supra-staminal part wide, funnel-shaped, #-1 in. long; 
lobes ovate gradually passing into a linear tail, 2-2} in. long; throat- 
scales lanceolate-subulate, glabrous, 3 lin. long. Anthers included, 
glabrous, shortly acuminate. Ovary glabrous.—Franch. in Nouv. 
Arch. Mus, Paris, 3 sér. v. 284, t. xv.; Payrau, Strophanthus, 131. 
Lower Guinea, French Congo: by the Boue Cataracts, on the River Ogowe, 
Thollon, 144, 746, 
Gilg, in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 162, considers S. ogovensis as identical with the 
Preceding species. 
20. S. verrucosus, Stapf. An erect shrub, 9-10 ft. high, quite 
glabrous ; branches brown or dark grey, dotted with lenticels, more or 
less rough, with a ring of large thick corky triangular protuberances 
or ridges below the nodes when old. Leaves ovate to elliptic, acumi- 
nate, obtuse at the base, 21-23 in. long, 1-1? in. broad, firmly mem- 
ranous ; secondary nerves 3~5 on each side, faint ; reticulation rather 
obscure; petiole 4-6 lin. long. Cymes terminal or pseudo-axillary, on 
leafy branches, subsessile, few- to 1-flowered; bracts subulate, 2 lin. 
long; pedicels up to 24 lin. long. Calyx 5-6 lin. long; sepals subu- 
late-acuminate from a broader base, spreading or with the tips recurved 
When in flower. Corolla wide, funnel-shaped, glabrous or minutely 
puberulous within ; infra-staminal part of the tube 2—3 lin. long, supra- 
staminal part 7-10 lin. long ; lobes ovate or lanceolate, produced into 
filiform tails, 34-5} in. long ; throat-scales subulate from a triangular 
Jase, 3 lin. long. “Anthers included, glabrous, 3 lin. long, produced 
into a fine bristle, not quite a line-long. Ovary glabrous.—S. petersi- 
anus, var. grandiflorus, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1892, 126 
(excluding the Delagoa Bay plant). S. sarmentosus, K. Schum, in Engl. 
