Strophanthus | LXXXII. APOCYNACES. 671 
shining above, paler beneath, slightly wavy on the margin ; flowers 
very elegant, not clustered; calyx 5-partite, green, spreading at the 
time of the open flower ; corolla funnel-shaped ; the tube and quinque- 
fid limb whitish, quickly turning to a sulphur colour, with purple 
streaks inside ; the segments of the limb from a broad base caudate ; 
the tails very long, yellowish green ; scales of the corolla-throat 10, 
scarlet, erect, obtuse, approximated in pairs, with 10 purple lines pro- 
ceeding from their base towards the bottom of the internally naked 
corolla-tube ; stamens 5, inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube, 
exserted, not reaching the level of the top of the corolla-limb ; anthers 
sagittate, mucronate (the mucro and basal appendages empty), closely 
connivent around the stigma and thus forming a pyramid completely 
covering the apex of the style; carpels 2, coalescent on the sides, 
smooth ; style 1, cylindrical, thick, soft, white ; stigma sab-cylindrical, 
pressed by the anthers; hypogynous scales 0. At the outskirts of 
primitive forests on the northern side of the Queta mountains, rare ; 
fl. 25 Dec, 1855. No. 5994. 
3. §. Schuchardtii Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 371 (1892) ; 
Franchet, l.c., v. p. 276. 
Huiiia.—A shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high ; head hemispherical ; branchlets 
crowded, verrucose with the scars of fallen leaves; leaves velvety- 
pubescent, lepidote between the nerves ; calyx greenish purple ; corolla- 
tube sanguineous-purple. In elevated rocky places near Lopollo, not 
plentiful, fl. 1 and 2 Dec. 1859 ; in rocky places between Ferrao da 
Sola and Nene ; fl. April 1860. ‘“ Gazellenjugi.” No. 5992. 
4, §, intermedius Pax, /.c., p. 375 ; Franchet, dc, p. 287. 
GotunGo AtTo.—A subscandent lactescent shrub, with the habit of 
Cryptolepis triangularis N.K. Br. ; corolla-lobes purple beneath, whitish 
towards the base, inside as well as the corolla-tube deep yellow, almost 
orange-coloured ; follicles obtusely conical, hard-woody ; at the out- 
skirts of the forest near the Capopa spring, sporadic, fl. and fr. Oct. 
1854. <A tree-shaped shrub, in old age scandent, called by the negroes 
‘“Méstia”’; seeds with very elegant coma; among the Alto Queta 
mountains ; fr. Nov. 1854. No. 5999. A climbing shrub, called 
“Bella” in Quilombo, “Méstia” in Bumba and Mussengue, and 
“ Fuco-hamoxi” in Alto Queta; at Sange, without either fl. or fr. 
May 1855. No. 5999. <A shrub, standing erect, 6 to 8 ft. high, with 
a trunk tree-like at the base, and then divided into branched or, if 
the plant grows solitary, with numerous lax branches from the base, 
climbing to a great height; flowers campanulate, handsome, from 
orange to purplish in colour; corolla-lobes with very long tails. 
Among the mountains of Alto Queta ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1854. Cou. 
Carp. 719. Capopa; fr. CoLu. Carp. 725. 
The negroes cut tubes for their tobacco-pipes from this shrub. In 
Pungo ANDONGO the name Mosua is applied to the long cylindrical 
- legumes of Cassia Sieberiana DC. (Welw. herb. n. 1740). 
5. S. ecaudatus Rolfe in Bol. Soc. Brot. xi. p. 85 (1893) 
(ecaudatus). 
Zygonerion Welwitschit Baill. in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Par. i. 
p. 758 (1888). 
PuNGO ANDONGO.—<A slender twining shrub, climbing to a great 
height, copiously lactescent with a yellowish resinous milk ; flowers 
handsome, whitish-purplish ; follicles about a foot long, green-purplish, 
