172 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE^ (stapf). [^Strophantkus . 



staminal part 7^ lin. long, 2 lin. wide, supra-staminal part gradually 

 widened, 1-1|^ lin. long; lobes long-tailed from a triangular base, 

 densely hairy on both sides ; tails very slender, over 4 in. long, J- J lin. 

 broad; throat-scales ovate -linear, glabrous. Anther-tips slightly ex- 

 serted, acute. Ovary long and densely tomentose. 



Soutii Central. Congo Free State : Mzimu, on Lake Tanganyika, Descamjjs; 



Gilg eoni))ares this s))ecies with *S'. Nicholsoni, Hohnes ; the description of the 

 tiowers seems to ine to point rather to S. Ledienii. 



5. S. Emiui, Asch. cC- Pax in Enyl. Jahrh. xv. 3GG, 383, it. x. xi. 

 A rambling shrub, up to 12-15 ft. high; branches tomentose when 

 young, glabrescent, greyish- brown. Leaves broad ovate, or elliptic, 

 obtuse or acute, rounded or acute at the base, 4 in. long, 3 in. broad, 

 subcoriaceous, pubescent above, tomentose beneath ; secondary nerves 

 7-4) on each side, distinct below ; veins more or less obscured by the 

 tomentum ; petiole np to 2{, lin. long. Flowers in sessile lateral and 

 terminal clusters on leafless elongate branches; bracts broad, ovate, 

 pubescent, 2-3 lin. long ; pedicels very short or almost 0. Calyx 

 foliaceous, 5 lin. long, densely pubescent ; sepals ovate, obtuse, with the 

 tips more or less recurved. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped, pubescent 

 without, infra-staminal part 7 lin. long, supra-staminal part slightly 

 shorter; lobes long-tailed from an ovate base; tails 3-4 in. long; 

 throat-scales 3-3-^ lin. long. Anthers included, acute. Ovary hispid, 

 Follicles JS-12 in. long, woody, shaggy from closely set cylindric villous 

 warts, greyish. Seeds oblong, golden-silky, IJ lin. long, J lin. broad; 

 awn naked for 8-9 lin., with the hairs up to 2J in. long. — Franch. in 

 Xouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 ser. v. (1893), 275; K. Schum. in Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 319, 

 Engl. I.e. A. 50; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 453; Busse in 

 Tropenpfl, iv. (1900), 59G, 597,.v. (1901), lOG ; Holmes in Pharm. Journ. 

 xii. (1901), 487 ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 155. S. Fischeri, Hartwich 

 in Arch. Pharm. Bd. 230, 421. >y. Stuhlmanni, Pax in Ber. Deutsch. 

 Pharm. Ges. iii. 44. 



XViozaiab. Sist. German East Africa : Irangi district, Fischer, 382 ! Ugogo; 

 Ipala, Si iihlmann, 354 ; Mpwapwa, Stuhlmann, 263. Ruaha Rivei", 2000 ft., 

 Goeize, 455 ! British Central Africa : Urungu ; Abercoru and Kituta, ex Holmes. 



G. S. Nicholsoni, Holmes in Pharm. Jcrnrn. v. (1897) 209. A 

 small shrub, 3-4 ft. high, with the habit of Ribes sanguineum ; branches 

 densely tomentose when young, at length glabrous, greyish -brown. 

 Young leaves ovate, obtuse, about 5 lin. long, densely velvety, greyish ; 

 petioles very short. Flowers in few-flowered clusters or solitary on 

 \ ery short branchlets along the leafless branches of last year's growth ; 

 bracts linear ; pedicels ver}- short. Calyx 3-3| lin. long ; sepals erect, 

 unequal, linear, acute. . Corolla pubescent all over; infra-staminal part 

 of the tube 3 lili. long, supra-staminal part funnel-shaped, over 2 lin. 

 long, yellow with dark purple lines and spots ; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 

 pinkish, tinged with brown, about 4-4 ^ lin. long, passing into purplish 

 tails up to 2^-4 in. long; throat-scales obtuse, 1 lin. long. Anthers and 



