collection at Kew. The description now for the first time 
given of the follicles and seeds has been based on a specimen 
collected in Lagos and communicated to the Kew herbarium 
by Sir T. R. Fraser, Edinburgh. 
Strophanthus Preussii is grown as a_ stout climber 
against the roof of the Palm House at Kew. It was raised 
from seeds forwarded in 1902 by Mr. W. H. Jolinson, 
from the Botanic Station at Aburi, Gold Coast. It 
flowered for the first time in July, 1908. As a garden 
plant it is not so attractive as the South African S. grandi- 
florus (B. M. t. 7390) formerly treated as a varicty of S. 
Petersianus, or as S. gratus (B. M. t. 4466) formerly known 
as Loupellia grata. ‘These are all tropical climbers which 
grow freely when planted in a loamy soil and afforded 
ordinary tropical house treatment. 
Descriprion.—Shrub, climbing or straggling; stems up 
to 12 ft. long, branches glabrous, brownish with white 
lenticels. Leaves elliptic, oblong, ovate or obovate, sharply 
acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, 2-4 in. long, 13-2 in. 
wide, membranous, glabrous; secondary nerves 6-7 pairs. 
Cymes terminal, peduncled, usually corymbosely many- 
flowered, finely puberulous; bracts leafy, ovate or lanceolate, 
obtuse or acute, base cuneate, 1-2 in. long; pedicels 2 in. 
long. Caly« $-3 in. long; sepals leafy, the outer wide-based, 
ovate-linear or linear-oblong, the inner contracted at the 
base, glabrous. Corolla finely pulverulent, yellowish-white 
or pale orange, the tube reddish, the scales within the throat 
and the tails purple; infrastaminal portion under 3 in. 
long, suprastaminal portion campanulate rather shorter, 
lobes ovate suddenly contracted into filiform tails up to 1 ft. 
in length. Anthers 1 in. long, tomentose on the back. 
Ovary hairy. ollicles lanceolate with thickened tips, 
10 in. long, 1} in. wide, tawny and marked with elongated 
white lenticels. Seeds elliptic, acuminate, 1—} in. long, 
* in. wide, tawny-pubescent; coma with a naked stipe 
4-5 In. long and a plumose axis 2-4 in. long; hairs of the 
coma } in. Jong, white. 
Fig. 1, section of calyx; 2, section of corolla-tube, stowing anthers; 
3, stigma —all enlarged. 
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BY ba 
Mike 
