182 LXXXIV. APOCYNACEE (STAPF). [Strophanthus. 
PA. Ost-Afr. C. 319 partly. S. sarmentosus, var. verrucosus, Pax in 
Engl. Jahrb. xv. 374; Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 sér. v. 
284. S. grandiflorus, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 156; 161 partly. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: near Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 1976! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Usaramo; Dar es Salaam, Goetze, 2! 
Zanguebar, Kirk ! 
S. petersianus, var. grandiflorus, was based in the first place on specimens 
collected by Monteiro in Delagoa Bay. They at least sugzested the name, and a. 
plant raised from seeds of the same origin was subsequently figured in Bot. Mag. t. 
7390 as representing this variety. Unfortunately other specimens, some of which 
were described simultaneously and independently by Pax as S. sarmentosus, var. 
verrucosus, were mixed up with the Delagoa plant. I agree with Gilg in consider- 
ing Pax’s variety verrucosus as specifically distinct from S. sarmentosus ; but 
it differs just as much from the Delagoa plant, for which the name grandiflorus 
may appropriately be retained, designating it as a distinct species. 
21. S. petersianus, AJotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 276. 
A much branched glabrous shrub ; branches brown, dotted al! over 
with whitish lenticels. Leaves ovate to rotundate-ovate, more or less 
acuminate, rounded at the base, 1-24 in. long, 3-13 in. broad, papery; 
firm; secondary nerves about 5-6 on each side, like the veins very 
faint; petiole 2-24} lin. long. Cymes terminal on short lateral 
branches ; produced with the mature or the young leaves, sessile, few- 
to 1-flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 lin. long; pedicels short. 
Calyx 33-7 lin. long; sepals lanceolate, acute. Corolla glabrous without, 
puberulous within ; infra-staminal part of the tube 2 lin. long, supra- 
staminal part wide, funnel-shaped, white, 5-6 lin. long ; lobes attenuate 
from an ovate or lanceolate base into linear lurid-purple tails, total 
length 2-3 in.; throat-scales subulate, 2-3 lin. long. Anthers ter- 
minating in a long fine point.—Pax in Engl. Jahrb, xv. 375; Franch. 
in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 sér. v. 290; K. Schum. in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182, and in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 319; 
Gilg in Engl. Jahrb, xxxii. 156. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, Tete, Kirk! 
Peters! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Chiromo, Scott-Eiliot, 2793 ! and 
without precise locality, Buchanan, 40! 
22. S. Courmonti, Sacleux in Journ. de Bot. vii. 322. A 
rambling perfectly glabrous shrub ; branches reddish-brown, frequently 
dotted with and rough from whitish lenticels, with a ring of large oF 
small corky protuberances at the nodes when old. Leaves elliptic oF 
oblong to ovate and obovate, shortly or obscurely acuminate, obtuse oF 
acute at the base, 24-3 in. long, 14-1} in. broad, subcoriaceous when 
mature ; secondary nerves about 5 on each side, very oblique and like 
the reticulation faint, though mostly distinct ; petiole up to 5 lin. long- 
Cymes terminal, sessile, 3-1-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, small, very 
often quite suppressed ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long. Calyx 24-34 lin. long; 
sepals oblong to lanceolate, acute, subcarinate on the back, scar1ous 
