Strophant?ius.\ lxxxiv. apocvxace.e (statf). 17 J 



2. S. ThoUoni, Franch. in Joarn, de Bot. vii. 299. A glabrous 

 climbing shrub, up to 25 ft. high ; branches dark brown, almost desti- 

 tute of lenticels. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, acute or 

 acuminate at both ends, o-5 in. long, \l-'2]^ in. broad, coriaceous: 

 secondary nerves 5-7 on each side, faint ; veins inconspicuous ; petiole 

 2-3 lin. long. Cymes terminal, subsessile, 4-1 -flowered ; bracts ovate, 

 acute, 1 lin. long ; pedicels 2-o lin. long. Calyx 6-8 lin. long ; sepals 

 oblong, acute, much imbricate, scarious. Corolla large, white and pink, 

 changing to orange or crimson; tube funnel-shaped, 12-14 lin. long; 

 lobes ovate, acute or subacuminate, 9-12 lin. long; throat-scales subu- 

 late from a broader base, 9-12 lin. long, with scattered hairs. Anthers 

 about 7 lin. long, passing into a more or less exserted awn, about 5 lin. 

 long. Ovary glabrous. — Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, '\ ser. v. 

 257, t. viii. ; L. Planch. Prod. Apocyn. 6G ; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxiii. 230. 



ir|»per G-uinea. Cameroons : Rio del Rey, Johnston^ 44 I Cnmeroon Rivor. 

 Manri, 743 ! 2222 ! I.olodorf, Staudf, 14 ! Bipiiule, Zenker, 1 148 ! 2300 ! Ifetaii^'a, 

 Bates, 3j43 ! 



lOTxrer Guinea. Gahoon : Oj^owe District, r/^o^/ow, ] 762. 



A part of the drug called IS. glahve du Oaho)i is possibly derived from tliis 

 sjjecies. See also Franchet in Journ. de Bot. viii. 203, and Payrau, Strophauthus, 

 115, 161. 



3. S. \M^^e.n\\^ Stein in Gartenfiora.,t.\'l\\. A shrub ; branches 

 softly and sparingly pubescent when young, brown, leafless when in 

 flower. Leaves obovate, abruptly cuspidate, cuneate at the bai>e, 4-6 in. 

 long, l:|-2 in. broad, softly and finely pubescent on both sides. Cymes 

 sessile, terminal, 3-7-flowered ; peduncle 5-10 lin. long; bracts broadly 

 linear, acuminate, 4-5 lin. long, 1 lin. broad; pedicels 5-10 lin. long. 

 Calyx foliaceous, 7 lin. long ; sepals linear from an elliptic base, acute. 

 Corolla-tube pale yellow, 10 lin. long; lobes deep yellow, ovate, ^>-'f^ in. 

 long including tiie tails which are glabrous above, delicately pubescent 

 below ; throat-scales purple, 2^-oi- lin. long. Follicles 10 14 in. long, 

 slender, brown, mottled with yellow, coriaceous. Seeds oblong, brown, 

 shortly and finely tomentose ; awn 'Ih in. long, naked to the middle, 

 hairs about 10 lin. long. — Christy, New Comm. Plants and Drugs, 

 1887, '2>^ ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 36S, 383 ; Franch. in Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. Paris, 3 ser. v. 270 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. ii. 182 ; Durand k Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 191 ; Gilg in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxxii. 155. 



Kower Guinea. Lower Conj^o : Vivi, on rocks. Ledien. 



4. S. holosericeuSy K. Schum. <(• (Jilg in Engl. Jakrh. xxxii. 157. 

 An erect, divaricate shrub ; branches densely brownish-tomentose when 

 young. Young leaves oblong, long and acutely acuminate, gradually 

 narrowed at the base, 1 in. long, 7 lin. broad, densely tomentose on 

 both sides, grey below; petiole 1-1 J lin. long. Cymes terminal, 2- 

 flowered ; pedicels densely tomentose, 5-6 lin. long. Calyx den.sely 

 tomentose, 6-6 J lin. long; sepals equal, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 

 acute. Corolla-tube densely and finely tomentose without, infra- 



