670. LXXXII. APOCYNACEA. [ Taberneemontana 
sightly tree, with white very fragrant flowers and orange-shaped 
fruits. In forests ; seeds March 1857. Cou. Carp. 730. 
IsLAND oF Sr. THomas.—Inflorescence terminal or sub-terminal, in 
opposite drooping or nodding cymes ; unexpanded flowers 14 in. long. 
Local name “‘ Cata grande.” Fl. Dec. 1860. Apparently this species. 
No. 5988. 
According to Welwitsch, /.c., the seeds are wrapped in corky mem- 
branes. The plant in St. Thomas, mentioned by Henriques, Bol. Soc. 
Brot. x. p. 140, as having the native name of “Catta grande,” and 
described by him under the name of “ Orchipeda, n, sp.?”, is quite 
different from this. 
The following No. is apparently an undescribed species of 
Tabernemontana :— 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—A lactescent tree with obpyramidal subcordate 
fruit. In forests at the river Tangue ; fr. May 1857. No. 5952. 
11. STROPHANTHUS DC.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 714. 
Zygonerion Baill. in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Par. i. p.-758 (1888). 
1. S. Preussii Engl. & Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 369 
(1892); Franchet in Nouv. Archiv. Mus, Hist. Nat., sér. 3, v. 
p. 279 (Nov. 1893). 
GoLtunco ALtto.—A shrub, climbing far and widely, not lactescent ; 
branches dusky-purple, scattered with small white warts; leaves 
herbaceous, membranous, soft, opaquely green and marked with black 
spots above, pallid and without spots beneath ; calyx 5-partite, the 
segments unequal, the 2 outer ones broadly cordate, the 3 inner ones 
lanceolate ; corolla orange-red, marked inside with 15 purple vertical 
lines, one-third larger than in S. ecaudatus Rolfe, funnel-shaped ; the 
limb 5-cleft ; the lobes with very long tails, 5 in. long; throat- 
appendages 10, not arched, semicircular; throat and tube pilose- 
tomentose ; stamens 5, connivent in a pyramid around the stigmatose 
part of the style ; anthers sagittate, densely pilose as are also the upper 
parts of the filaments; ovary bilobed, densely and shortly pilose ; 
hypogynous scales 10, approximated in pairs, pale yellowish. In 
secondary woods between the river Delamboa and the Capopa spring ; 
fl. end of Dec. 1855. No. 5996. 
Punco ANpDoNGO.—An evergreen shrub, subscandent or scarcely 
decumbent upon other shrubs ; corolla from deep sulphur to orange 
colour ; the tails or appendages of the lobes of the limb green-yellowish ; 
scales of the throat sulphur-coloured. In elevated wooded bushy places, 
in the shade of the gigantic rocks of the presidium at Santo Antonio ; 
fl. middle of Oct. 1856 and Feb. 1857. No. 5995. 
The following No. is doubtfully referred to S. Prewssti :— 
Punco ANDoNGo.—A robust, bushy shrub ; follicles nearly a foot 
long. In Mata de Quilanga ; scarcely ripe fr. Dec. 1856. The seeds 
are 2 to 1 in. long by } to ,%, in. broad, glabrous, rugose and minutely 
pitted, comose at the apex with spreading silky slightly coloured hairs 
of about 2 in. in length ; cotyledons plicate. No. 5998. 
2. S. parviflorus Franchet in Journ. de Bot. vii. p. 303 (16 Aug. 
1893), & dc. p. 281, t. 11 B. j 
GotunGo Atro.—A slender, widely climbing shrub ; juice rather 
viscid, watery, not milky ; branches sarmentose, very slender, long; 
branchlets opposite ; leaves membranous, opaquely green and scarcely 
