Strophanthus. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACEX (STAPF). 183 
along the margin. Corolla large, violet without, white, tinged with 
violet within, scales yellow ; infra-staminal part of the tube 4—5 lin. 
long, gradually widened from the base, supra-staminal part funnel- 
shaped, wide, up to 1 in. long; lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, not tailed, 
1}-1} in. long ; throat-scales lanceolate or subulate from a broader 
base, 2-3 lin. long. Anthers glabrous, tapering into a fine point, 3} lin. 
long. Follicles 10 in. long, tapering almost from the base, not rostrate, 
very woody. Seeds linear-oblong, greyish silky, 6 lin. long ; awn naked 
for about 15 lin., plume 2~2} in. long.—Franch. in Arch. Nouv. Mus. 
Paris, 3 sér. v. 286, and in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 2 sér.i. 4; K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 319 and in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 453; Payrau, 
Strophanthus, 92, 93, 162, with figs.; Holmes in Pharm, Journ. xil. 
(1901), 486-489, fig. 1-7 (including vars. Kirkii and fallax); Gilg in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 157. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Tanga, Heinsen, 131! 
Nguru district, Sacleux ; Uhehe; Ruaba River, 2000 ft., Goetze, 453! Portuguese 
East Africa: Yao Forest, Steere! Morambala Mountain, Waller! British Central 
Africa : Nyasaland ; Zomba, Manning, 78! Lukoma (Likoma Island ?), Belling- 
ham! Shire Valley, Waller ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1219! 1355! 
Rhodesia: Batoka Country; Manyorene Hill, Kirk / 
_ 23. S. ecaudatus, Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xi. 85. A climb- 
ing shrub; branches minutely puberulous when quite young, soon 
glabrescent, dark reddish-brown, rough with often very numerous 
lenticels. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate-oblong or lanceolate, very 
shortly acuminate, cuspidate or acute, acute at the base, $-1} in. long, 
3-8 lin. broad ; margins wavy, coriaceous, glabrous, very pale beneath 
when young; secondary nerves 5-6 on each side, faint, often incon- 
Splcuous ; veins inconspicuous ; petiole 1—2 lin. long. Cymes generally 
reduced to 1-2 flowers, terminal on leafy branches, sessile ; bracts lan- 
ceolate-subulate, 3 lin. long, early deciduous ; pedicels finely puberulous 
up to3 lin. long. Calyx 5-7 lin. long; sepals oblong, acuminate, with 
generally recurved tips and often wavy margins, rather firm. Corolla 
white and glabrous outside, pink inside ; infra-staminal part of tube 
> lin. long, supra-staminal part of tube campanulate or widely f unnel- 
shaped, 7 lin. long, more or less puberulous within ; lobes ovate-oblong, 
acuminate, 8-9 lin. long; throat-scales filiform from a triangular base, 
2-7 lin, long, deep purple. Anthers glabrous, acuminate, terminating 
in a fine bristly point, 34 lin. long. Follicles 7 in. long, attenuate 
almost from the base, obtuse, densely verrucose with numerous lenticels. 
Seeds linear-oblong, 5 lin. long, densely silky, yellowish; awn naked 
for 1}-1} in., plume 14 in. long —Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 6715 
Payrau, Strophanthus, 94-96, 162, with figs. S. Welwitschii, K. Schum, 
in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Ergiinz. Heft, i. 59; Gilg in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxxii. 157, 162. Zygonerion Welvitschii, Bail. in Bull. Soc. 
Linn. Paris, i. 758. 
_ Lower Guinea. Angola: between Pungo Andongo and the Cuanza, Wel- 
witsch, 5991 low forest between Cazella and Luxiilo, Welwitsch, 5926! Malange, 
