512 APOcYNACEH (Stapf). [Strophanthus. 
Blinkwater, near York, Wood, 4305! Zululand, Qudeni Forest, 6000 ft., Wood, 
7895! Eshowe, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 275! and without precise locality, Mrs, 
K. Saunders! 
Only one other species (S. gratus, Baill.) having glabrous seeds is known 
in the genus, whilst S. speciosus is unique in having a sessile plume. 
XI. ONCINOTIS, Benth. 
Calyx small, eglandular within, rarely with 5 minute glands 
alternating with the sepals; sepals imbrieate, ovate, acute or obtuse. 
Corolla salver-shaped ; tube short, widest at the middle, densely 
tomentose within except at the very base, with 5 ligulate scales in 
the mouth alternating with the lobes and projecting obliquely into 
the mouth; lobes overlapping to the right, spreading or reflexed. 
Stamens inserted somewhat above the corolla-base; filaments very 
short, stout, arching over the ovary, densely hairy on the inner side ; 
anthers conniving in a cone, ineluded, sublinear, sagittate ; appen- 
dages as long as the polliniferous part ; tails short, very obtuse, 
recurved ; foot of the connective with a faint central ridge in the 
upper part and a cushion of short papillse at the base. Disc cupular, 
5-lobed or 5-partite. Carpels 2, free, shortly exserted and free from 
the disc ; style very short, passing into the short spindle-shaped 
stigma ; apiculus 2-lobed. Mericarps follicular, spindle-shaped, 
divaricate, seeds lanceolate with an apical cone; embryo unknown. 
Glabrous or hairy scandent shrubs; leaves opposite ; secondary nerves 
usually distant; axillary stipules and glands 0. Panicles axillary or axillary 
and terminal, consisting of opposite or subopposite, few to many -flowered von- 
tracted cymes ; flowers inconspicuous. 
Distris. Species about 12, in Tropical Africa, Natal and Madagascar. 
1. O. inandensis (J. M. Wood & Evans in Journ. Bot. 1899, 
254); a shrub climbing over trees; branches terete, the youngest 
parts firmly and densely fulvous-tomentose, soon glabrescent, at 
length dull brown or reddish-brown with whitish lenticels; leaves 
obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate, acute at the 
base, 3-31 in. long, 1-11 in. broad, firmly membranous, rusty- 
tomentellous in the very young bud, soon glabrous; secondary 
nerves 3-4 on each side, very oblique; petiole 2-2} lin. long; 
flowers in numerous axillary minutely fulvous-tomentellous racemes 
or panicles, about 1 in. long and borne on usually very short 
peduncles ; bracts ovate-lanceolate, small, early deciduous ; pedicels 
very short ; calyx 1 lin. long, finely fulvous-tomentose ; sepals ovate, 
subacute; corolla greenish, minutely tomentellous without, very 
slender, almost subulate in bud; tube almost 1} lin. long; lobes 
linear, 11 lin. long; follicles cylindric, divaricate, 6-7 in. long, 
3 lin. in diam., delicately tomentellous, at length glabrescent ; seeds 
oblong-linear, 6-7 lin. long; coma 1} in. long. O. natalensis, 
Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1907, 52. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Inanda, in woods, Wood, 1009! 6159! 
_ Very similar to the West African O. gracilis, K. Schum, & Pax, but differing 
in the delicate, adpressed tomentum, much more acute leaf-bases, fewer and 
more oblique side-nerves, shorter petioles and shorter racemes. 
