186 LXXXIV. APOCYNACES (STAPF). | Strophanthus. 
point, 3-3} lin. long. Ovary glabrous.—Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 
Paris, 3 sér. v. 289; K.Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 
182. S. petersianus, var. amboensis, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. 
Brandenb. xxx. 259; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 156. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: in forests by the River Cunene, Schinz! near 
Chihinde, 4000 ft., Baum, 59! and without precise locality, Herb. Ferreira. 459! 
(yerman South-west Africa: Amboland, Schinz ; Hereroland, Giirick, 25. 
Imperfectly known species. 
29. S. asper, Oliv. ex L. Planch. Prod. Apocyn. 61. Seeds whitish, 
hairy all over (hairs 1 lin. long), 8 lin. long, obtuse at the base; awn 
2} in. long, naked for } in. from the base, hairs of the plume short, 
erect.—S. laineux du Zambezxe, Blondel, Stroph. du Comm. 51; Pax 
in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 384; Payrau, Strophanthus, 101-103, with figs. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zambesi Region, Elborne. 
Pax suggests that the seeds might belong to S. petersianus. 
30. S. minor, Christy ex Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 381, 384, 386. 
Follicles very slender, 1-13 ft. long, 73 lin. in diam.; light brown. 
Seeds 4-7 lin. long or longer, obtuse at the base, brown to greenish, 
pale or dark, minutely pubescent, at length glabrous; awn naked for 
1? in. from the base; plumose part 2 in. long, hairs of plume 1 in. long. 
—Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 sér. v. 252; L. Planch. Prod. 
Apoc. 44-49, figs. 3, 4, 5; Payrau, Strophanthus,,82-84. S. Niger, 
Christy in Pharm. Journ. and Trans. xx. (1889), 318. S. dw Niger, 
Blondel, Stroph. du Comm. 26. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory, Gold Coast ? 
Pax suggests that S. minor is identical with S. scaber. 
31. S. mirabilis, Gily in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 159. A shrub, 
43-6 ft. high ; branches divaricate, numerous, brown and sparingly 
crispo-pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, at length greyish 
brown ; internodes very short. Leaves oblong, rounded at the tips; 
acute at the base, 7}-10 lin. long, 24-4 lin. broad, more or less 
chartaceous, minutely crispo-puberulous when quite young, : soon 
sparingly scabridulous or quite glabrous; nerves and veins very incon: 
spicuous ; petiole $3 lin. long. Flowers solitary on the ends of the 
branches and branchlets; bracts 14 lin. long, lanceolate or lineal- 
lanceolate ; pedicels very short. Calyx 4—41 lin. long, densely covered 
outside with minute greyish hairs; sepals foliaceous, spathulate-oblong; 
obtuse. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped to campanulate, sparingly 2 
minutely pubescent, 54 lin. long, 3 lin. wide at the mouth ; lobes broad- 
ovate, 23-3 lin. long, gradually passing into the linear somewhat fleshy 
recurved tails which are 1}-1} in. long; throat-scales fleshy, lines 
13-2 lin.long. Follicles narrow, 7-10 in. long, 5-64 lin. thick, streak 
with white; tips knob-shaped. ‘ 
~ Wile Land. Galla Country: Gave Libin, near Wonte and Anole, near the 
Ganale River, 500-600 ft, in dense bush, Ellenbeck, 2205 ! 
