Strophanihus.] lxxxiv. apocynace.e (stapf). 17;j 



filaments glabrous. Ovary hairy. Follicles purple, lenticellate, 5.1-0 

 in. long. Seeds oblong, 7 lin. long, -Jh lin. broad, velvety, brownish- 

 white ; awn naked for almost 2 in., then plumose for 2^ in. — Payniu, 

 Strophanthus, 13?>; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 154. 



XVEozamb* IDlst. British Central Africa : from Lusengasia in tlic Seiiga 

 Country to the upper Loangwa River, Nicholson ! 



7. S. Kombe, Oliv. in Hook, Ic. PL t. 1098. A rambling or 

 climbing shrub ; branches hispid tomentose when young, glabrescent, 

 ultimately grey or black, scabrid, dotted with large white lenticels, 

 rather stout. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, acute or apiculate, obtuse 

 at the base, 3-3 J in. long, 1|-2| in. broad, rather thick, densely and 

 coarsely tomentose on both sides when young, glabrescent and scabrid 

 above when mature; nerves 6-7 on each side, rather oblique; veins 

 rather distinct below; petiole very short. Cymes terminal on short 

 branches with the young leaves (sometimes before the leaves), few- 

 flowered, hispid ; peduncle very short ; bracts subulate, 3 lin. long ; 

 pedicels slender, 3-5 lin. long. Calyx hispid-tomentose, 5-7 lin. long ; 

 sepals lanceolate-linear or linear-subulate, slightly imbricate at the base. 

 Corolla yellowish- white, pubescent without, infra- starninal part 3-4 lin. 

 long, supra-staminal part campanulate or shortly funnel-shaped, 3-4 

 lin. long; lobes produced into a long tail from an ovate base ; tails o-o 

 in. long ; throat-scales very short, obtuse, densely papillose. Anthers 

 included, acute, 2 J in. long. Follicles spreading at right angles, tapering 

 from below the middle, 9-15 in. long, up to 1 in. thick. Seeds lanceo- 

 late- to elliptic-oblong, drab to fawn-coloured, silky, 7-9 lin. long ; awn 

 naked for 2 in., including the hairs 5-6 in. long. — Fraser in Journ. 

 Anat. and Physiol, vii. 142 in footnote ; Christy, New Comm. Plants 

 and Drugs, No. 9 (1886), 53-61, No. 10 (1887), 9, 10, fig. 3, 14-15, 

 No. 11 (1887), 14; Elborne in Pharm. Journ. xvii. 743-747 ; Gerrard 

 in Pharm. Journ. xvii. 923 ; Blondel, Stroph. du Comm. 38, and in Brit, 

 and Colon. Druggist (1888), 590, with fig. ; Buchanan in Pharm. Journ. 

 xviii. 748 ; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 366, 383, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 B. 515, 520; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. IX'J, 

 and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 319 ; Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 

 3 ser. V. 273 ; L. Planch. Prod. Apocyn. 49, 53, fig. 6, 54, fig. 7, ^>(j, tig. 8, 

 82; Perredes in Pharm. Journ. xi. (1900), 241-246, 270, figs. 1-59; 

 Hartwich, Neue Arzneidrog. 323; Brit. Pharmacop. (1898), 313: 

 White ife Humphrey, Pharmacop. 471, t. xliii., figs. 2, a and b ; Payrau, 

 Strophanthus, 71-84, 163, with figs. ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 155. 

 aS'. hispidus, Oliv. ex Fraser in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb. vii. (18(;9-70), 

 101, and in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. xxxv. t. iii. (for the greatest 

 part), and in Journ. Anat. and Physiol, vii. 139-155; Christy, I.e. 

 No. 10 (1887), 12-13, not of A. DC. S. hispidus, var. Komhe, Holmes 

 in Pharm. Journ. and Trans, xxi. (1890), 233. 



Mozamb. ]01st. German East Africa : Usaramo, 1000 ft., Ooetze, 24 ! 

 Dondeland, Biisse, 563 ! Portuguese East Africa : Yao Forest, Steere I British 

 Central Africa: Nyasalaud; Mangauja Hills, 2000 ft., Meller ! Shibisa, Kirk, 24a ! 

 and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1121 ! 



