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bus usque ad annulum decurrentibus notatus, czeterum glaber ; 
lobis ovato-oblongis tubo brevioribus sestivatione sinistrorsum 
contortis. Ovaria apice hispida, stylo glabro. 
l. Strophanthus sarmentosus, DC.—A. DC. Prod.8. p. 418.— 
—8. Senegambix, A. DC. 1. c.—Sierra Leone, Don, Miss 
Turner; Senegal. Flowers whitish, with deep red stripes. 
The other W. African species are S. pendulus, Kummer, 
from Senegambia, closely allied to if not the same as S. sar- 
meníosus ; S. hispidus, DC., a very distinct species from Sierra 
Leone, and S. laurifolius, DC., the exact station of which is not 
given. 
The Nerium scandens, Schum. et Thonn., the genus of 
which, according to recent definitions, is uncertain, and Mo- 
uda Guineensis, A. DC., both from Guinea, are unknown 
me. 
Oncrnorts, gen. nov. e tribu Echitearum. 
Calyx 5-partitus, eglandulosus. Corolle hypocraterimorphe 
tubus subeylindrieus, faux coronata ligulis 5 integris cum 
lobis alternantibus, lobis zstivatione sinistrorsum contortis. 
, Stamina prope basin corolle inserta; filamenta brevissima ; 
antherze lineari-sagittatz, apice nude, auriculis baseos externe 
Uncinato-recurvis. Nectarium-e glandulis 5 basi connatis 
ovatis obtusis. Ovaria 2, apice pilosa, nectario sublongiora. 
Stylus brevis, superne fusiformi-dilatatus sulcatus et antheris 
cohzrens, ultra dilatationem productus et in lobos 2 lanceo- 
latos stigmatosos divisus. 
l. Oncinotis nitida, Benth.— Sierra Leone, Vogel. 
Frutex scandens, glaber, ramulis compressis demum teretibus. 
Folia opposita, linea tenui connexa, breviter petiolata, obovali- 
oblonga, pleraque subtripollicaria, abrupte acuminata, mar- 
gine subrecurya, basi acuta, glaberrima, nitida, eleganter 
venosa; yen primarie a costa valde divergentes prope 
marginem confluunt in venulam in medio spatio versus 
costam recurvam et mox ramulosam; axille venarum ma- 
Jorum sspe foveolatz at non pilose. Cymule oppor in 
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