184 LXXXIV. APOCYNACE (STAPF). | Strophanthus. 
Marques! Huilla ; Morro de Lopollo, Welwitsch, 5990! Chitanda River, between 
Goudkopje and Katzele, 4000 ft., Baum, 177! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu ; Stevenson Road, Carson, 
in Herb. Scott-Elliot, 8316! 
A specimen from Fwambo collected by Carson in 1889, differs from 8316 of 
Scott-Elliot’s collection in having smaller flowers on long slender shoots, which 
spring direct from the ground, There is no other difference, and I suppose it 
represents merely a starved state. 
24. S. Schuchardti, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 371. A shrub 
4—5 ft. high, with a hemispheric top, very much branched ; branches 
tomentose when young, dark brown, dotted with lenticels. Leaves 
ovate, obtuse or very obscurely acuminate, truncate or subcordate at 
the base, about 1-1} in. long, ?-1 in. broad, thick, softly tomentose on 
both sides; secondary nerves 5-6 on each side, faint; veins incon- 
spicuous; petiole 1-2 lin. long. Cymes terminal, sessile, few- to 
1-flowered, tomentose ; bracts lanceolate, 1—2 lin. long, early deciduous ; 
pedicels up to 6 lin. long. Calyx tomentose, 24-3 lin. long; sepals 
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lanceolate or linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute. Corolla bright purple 
outside ; limb orange inside, finely puberulous without ; infra-staminal 
part of tube 14-2 lin. long, supra-staminal part tubular-campanulate, 
4—5 lin. long ; lobes caudate-linear from an ovate base, 9 lin. long; 
throat-scales small, lanceolate-linear, glabrous. Anthers shortly 
acuminate. Ovary hairy.—Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 sé?- 
v. 276; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182; Hiern 
in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 671; Payrau, Strophanthus, 97-100, 163, 
with figs.; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 154. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Lopollo and between Ferrao da Sola and 
Nene, Welwitsch, 5992! 
Payrau describes and figures the seeds as lanceolate-oblong, rounded at the base, 
gradually tapering at the upper end, slightly reddish-drab, velvety, 54-6} lin. long, 
with an awn 5 in, long of which one half or slightly more forms the plume. 
25. S. Demeusei, 4. Dewevre in Journ. Pharm. Anvers, 1894, 8 
(of the reprint). A climber, quite glabrous (except the corolla) ; branches 
brown, dotted with lenticels. Leaves ovate, 34-4 in. long, 13-2} iD. 
broad, rounded at the base, subacuminate, thin, membranous ; secondai 
nerves 5-6 on each side, not raised ; reticulation faint ; petiole 4—6 lin. 
long. Cymes terminal (or subterminal ?) on lateral branches, peduncl ’ 
2—4-flowered ; peduncle slender, often curved, 3-4 lin. long; bracts 
small, early deciduous ; pedicels 2-4 lin. long. Calyx 2-24 lin. longs 
sepals ovate, subacuminate. Corolla puberulous outside ; infra- 
staminal part of tube 2 lin. long, supra-staminal part tubular, 4 li 
long ; lobes attenuate into linear tails from a lanceolate base, 1-1} ™ 
long ; throat-scales linear from a broader base, 1 lin. Jong.— Durand : 
Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 191; Gilg in Jahrb. xxxii. 156. 
Lower Guinea. Congo Free State : Buana, 1960 ft., Demeuse, 518! 
Very closely allied to S. intermedius, Pax, and perhaps not specifically distinct. 
