Strophanthus. | APOCYNACER (Stapf). 511 
reduced to a solitary flower, terminal on short lateral branches, some- 
times overtopped by leafy branchlets produced with the leaves; 
peduncle (if any) slender, 2-6 lin. long; bracts early deciduous ; 
pedicels very slender, up to 6 lin. long; calyx 4—5 lin. long ; sepals 
subulate from a broader base; corolla glabrous without, puberulous 
within ; infra-staminal part of the tube 12 lin. long, supra-staminal 
part almost tubular-campanulate, 41 lin. long, up to 4 lin. wide in 
the dried state; lobes attenuate from an ovate or lanceolate base 
into linear tails, total length 12 in.; throat-scales linear-subulate, 
1-1} lin. long; anthers terminating in a fine point. 
EASTERN REGION: Natal or Zululand ; without precise locality, Gerrard, 
1795! 
Very similar to 8. petersianus, Klotzsch, but differing in the narrower leaves, 
more subulate sepals and the shape of the supra-staminal part of the corolla-tube, 
which is more that of S. Schuchardti, Pax. 
3. 8. speciosus (Reber in Der Fortschritt, iii. (1887), 299); 
a rambling glabrous shrub; branches trailing on other shrubs, 
sometimes running high up, olive-green, densely _lenticellate ; 
leaves in whorls of 3-4, rarely the uppermost opposite, oblong- 
lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, rarely acutely acuminate, long 
attenuate at the base, 11-31 in. long, 1-1 in. broad, coriaceous, 
glossy above ; secondary nerves about 10-16 on each side, very faint 
or like the veins obscure; petiole 2-3 lin. long; cymes terminal or 
pseudo-axillary, shortly peduncled, few- to 12-flowered, corymbi- 
form ; bracts lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, 3-1 lin. long, usually 
deciduous ; pedicels up to } in. long; ealyx 3-5 lin. long; sepals 
lanceolate to linear, narrow, acuminate, sometimes recurved ; corolla 
eream-coloured to yellow or orange, spotted with red ; infra-staminal 
part of the tube 2 lin. long, supra-staminal part funnel-shaped-cam- 
panulate, 4 lin. long; lobes attenuate from a somewhat broader base 
into linear spreading tails from less than 1-11 in. long; throat- 
scales linear-subulate, up to 1 Jin. long; anthers covered with silky 
hairs above the middle; follicles very slender, lanceolate, long 
acuminate, about 6 in. long, +} in. in diam., terete, tips somewhat 
thickened ; seeds oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, 6 lin. long, 2 lin. 
wide, pale reddish-brown, with a sessile plume, hairs 12 in. long on 
a very fine awn up to } in. long; cotyledons oblong, flat, thin. 
Autran in Bull. Soc, Bot. Belg. xxix. ii.45; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 
376; Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3° sér. v. (1893), 287 ; 
K. Schum. in Engl. § Prantl, Pflanaenfam. iv. ii. 182; Gilg in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 157, and in Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflanzenfam. 
vii. 34. §. capensis, A.DC. Prodr. viii. 419; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 
5713; Sim, For, Fl. Cape Col. 272. Christya speciosa, Ward & 
Harv. in Hook, Journ. Bot. iv. (1842), 134, t. 21; A.DC. Le. 416. 
Coast Region: Bedford Div.; in forest on the Kaga Berg, 5000 ft., Mrs, 
Hutton! Stockenstrom Div.; in woods on the Kat Berg, 4000 ft., Scully in 
MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm, Austr.-Afr. 761! MacOwan, 2020! Mrs. Barber, 
28! Stutterheim Div.; Kabousie Forest, Murray in Herb. MacOwan, 2023! 
Eastern Reoion: Transkei; Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Pegler, 915! Natal; 
