510 APOCYNACER (Stapf). [ Strophanthus. 
numerous, pluriseriate. Mericarps follicular, oblong or spindle- 
shaped, divarieate. Seeds spindle-shaped, slightly compressed, with 
an apical plumose awn and a deciduous basal coma; endosperm 
scanty, fleshy ; cotyledons oblong, plano-convex ; radicle short. 
Shrubs, often scandent, glabrous or more or less hairy, with persistent or 
deciduous foliage. Leaves opposite, rarely ternate; axillary stipules 0; axillary 
glands subulate or conical, 2-6, rarely more, at the base of each petiole. In- 
florescences terminal, often on the ends of short branches, corymbose, many- or 
few-flowered or reduced to solitary flowers; flowers mostly showy. 
DistRiB. Species about 45, in Tropical and South Africa and Tropical Asia. 
Leaves opposite, not coriaceous : 
Sepals subfoliaceous, lanceolate, 7-8 lin. long; 
corolla-tube 1 in. long; lobes inclusive of the 
tails 6-7 in. long... rn vid fi ... (1) grandiflorus. 
Sepals subulate-acuminate, 2-4 lin. long; corolla- 
tube about 6 lin. long; lobes inclusive of the 
tails from less than 1 in. to 14 in, long ... ... (2) Gerrardii. 
Leaves in whorls of 8-4, coriaceous oi ‘So ts (3) speciosus. 
1. S. grandiflorus (Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 182, 608); 
a dense shrub, 5-6 ft. high, quite glabrous; branches long, slender, 
reddish-brown with numerous white lenticels; leaves ovate to 
elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, acute or subobtuse at the base, 
about 2 in. (in cultivated specimens 3 in.) long, 3-1 in. broad, 
membranous ; secondary nerves 6-9 on each side, slender; reticula- 
tion rather delicate ; petiole 3-4 lin. long ; cymes terminal on leafy 
(in the wild specimens short) branches, usually reduced to a single 
flower ; bracts linear-laneeolate, about 4 lin. long; pedicels up to 
4 lin. long ; calyx 7-8 lin. long; sepals oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 
subacute, 2 lin. broad, erect; corolla wide, purplish without, milk- 
white or creamy within; infra-staminal part of the tube 2 lin. long, 
supra-staminal part 10 lin. long ; lobes ovate, produced into filiform 
tails, about 6 in. long; throat-scales subulate from a triangular base, 
4 lin. long ; anthers included, glabrous, 8 lin. long, produced into a 
fine bristle. Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 161, and in Engl. Monogr. 
Afr. Pflanzenfam. vii. (1903), 28 (the Delagoa Bay plant). 8. 
petersianus, var. grandiflorus, N. EB. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1892, 
126 (the Delagoa Bay plant); Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 7390. 
EasterRN Reaion : Delagoa Bay, Monteiro! and cultivated specimen, Mrs. 
Monteiro! 
Concerning the identity of this plant and the Hast African 9. verrucosus, 
Stapf, my note in Flora of Tropical Africa, iv. i. 607 may be consulted. No 
more material of the Delagoa Bay plant has been received since the publication 
of this note. : 
2. 8. Gerrardii (Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1907, 52); a glabrous 
shrub with slender branches, reddish and dotted all over with whitish 
lenticels ; leaves narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or obscurely 
acuminate, rounded or subacute at the base, 13—22 in. long, 2-1 in. 
broad, papery, rather thin; secondary nerves about 5 on each side, 
like the veins very faint or quite obscure ; petiole 2 lin. long ; cymes 
