Plate 7390. 

 STROPHANTHTJS PETERSIANUS 



var. GRANDIFLOEUS. 

 Native of Belagoa Bay. 



Nat. Ord. Apoctnace.e. — Tribe Echitide^:. 

 Genus Strophantus, DC. ; {Benth. $ Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 714.) 



Strophantus Petersianus ;. frutex scandens, glaberrimus, ramis gracilibus 

 brurmeis albo-maculatis, foliis petiolatis ovatis obtuse acuminatis undu- 

 latis, cymis paucifloris, floribus subsessilibus, calycislobis ovatis recurvis, 

 glandulis basi 5 inasqualibus, corollae flavidge v. purpurascentis tubo 

 calyce duplo longiore infundibulari-canipanulato, lobis lanceolatis ia 

 caudas longissimas tortas pendulas productis, appendicibus oris tubo fere 

 aeqnilongis subulatis flexuosis, filamentis connectivis intus villosis, 

 antherarum aristis loculis aequilongis v. brevioribus. 



S. Petersianus, Klotzsch in Peters' Beise Mossamb. Bot. p. 276. 



S. sarmentosus, AD.C. var. verrucosus, Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xv. 

 (1893), p. 374 



Yar. grandiflorus, JV.E. Brown in Kew Bullet. (1892), p. 126; floribua 

 majoribus. 



Except in the much larger size of the flowers there 

 seems to be nothing to distinguish this handsome plant 

 from that found by Dr. Peters, whence it follows that 

 8. Petersianus has a very wide distribution (of 20°) in 

 tropical Africa, varying much in both the size and colour 

 of the flowers, the breadth of the calyx-lobes and the 

 length of the tails of the corolla-lobes. The Southern 

 limit, as far as is ascertained is the North bank of the 

 Limpopo river, where it was found by Mr. St.V. W. 

 Erskine, who made good drawings of the flowers, repre- 

 senting the corolla as rose-purple externally. Its Northern 

 limits are Mombasa, where it was found by Hildebrandt, 

 and Zanzibar (Kirk). The type of the species, so far as 

 first publication is concerned, is a small flowered state, 

 which was discovered by Dr. Peters near Tette, on the 

 Zambesi river, about 300 miles from its mouth. Herbarium 

 specimens of the large flowered variety here figured were 

 sent to Kew in 1876, by the late J. J. Monteiro, Esq. (a 

 first-rate Naturalist, and valued correspondent), whose 

 December 1st, 1894. 



