Strophauthus.] Lxxxiv. apocyxace.e (staff). 175 



Upper Guinea. Seiicgambia : Cnyor ; Lou<j:rt, Joref^ Kio Xunez, Heudelof^ 

 S2y I Casainaiize River, Pe/v'Oi'/^^ / French Guinea : DauLilia, Scot f-JEl I io f, ^S00\ 

 Sierra Leone; Bnnce Island, Kirk, 38! Kiver Sherboro, Mann, 793 ! and without 

 precise locality, Smeathman ! (Jold Coast : Afrow Plains, Johnson, 594.B 1 Laeos : 

 Lagos, Roivland ! Abeokuta, Irving, 188 ! Barter, 3321 ! Niger Delta : River 

 Nun, Barter, 20102 ! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 749 ! Old CaUbnr, Thomson, 

 6 ! Mann, 224S ! Cameroons, Bipinde, Zenker, 1083 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Gaboon: Corisco Bay, Mann! Lower Congo: Kisantu, 

 Gillet, 83 ! :\rayoinbe, Cahra. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Bangala, Bewevre, 866 ! 



S. thierryanus, K. Schnni. & Gilg in Engl. .lahrb. xxxii. 158, seems to represent 

 a particularly hispid state of S. hispidus. There is nothing else in the description 

 to distinguish it from this species except the somewhat shorter corolla-tails, a rather 

 variable character. It was collected by Thierry in the interior of Togo, where it is 

 used by the Moba Tribe for preparing an arrow poison. 



0. S. bullenianus. Mast, in Gard. Chron. 1870, 1471,/y. 257, 

 Hxcl. fruit. A climbing shrub, 10-40 ft. high ; branches slender, 

 sparingly hispid with yellowish spreading hairs, soon glabrescent. 

 reddish-brown, scantily dotted with lenticels. Leaves oblong-elliptic to 

 oblong, suddenly constricted into a narrow linear acumen 6-9 lin. long, 

 rounded or (rarely) acute at the base, 4-0 in. long, 1.1^-2 in. broad 

 membranous, very scantily hirsute or almost glabrous above, hirsute or 

 liispid all over, but especially along the nerves below ; secondary nerves 

 «s-l 1 on each side, raised and very distinct below : veins inconspicuous ; 

 petiole hispid, 2-4 lin. long. Cymes terminal, pednncled, few-flowered, 

 very lax, scantily hispid; peduncle slender, 6-12 lin. long; bracts fili- 

 form or subulate, -^ lin. long ; pedicels very slender, up to 7 lin. long. 

 Calyx 4-5 lin. long ; sepals linear, more or less hirsute on the back and 

 along the margins, usually somewhat spreading, imbricate at the very 

 base only. Corolla salver-shaped, puberulous without, infra- staminal 

 part of the tube pinkish, about f) lin. long, supra-staminal part very 

 short, wide and shallow ; lobes yellow with purple spots, produced into 

 piuple tails 5-11 lin. long; throat-scales very short, ovate, obtuse. 

 Anthers glabrous, acute, 2 lin. long, almost wholly exserted. — Pax in 

 Engl. Jahrb. xv. 368, not 383 ; Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, :> 

 ser. V. 274, excl. the fruit; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. ii. 182 ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb, xxxii. 155. 



Upper G-uinea. South Nigeria : Old Calabar, Mann, 2247 ! Thomson, 22 f 

 Fernando Po, Mann, 1444! 



DLomrer Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 55 I 



The fruit figured by Masters belongs to a species of Pleiocertis ; the same is 

 evidently the case with the fruits and seeds described as those of S. buUenianus by 

 Christy, New Coram. Plants and Drugs, No. 9 (1886), 62. 



S. Sc?ilechteri, K. Schum. in Schlechter. Westafr. Kfiutschuk Exped. 308 

 (name only), and K. Schum. & Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 158, collected by Schlechter 

 (12919) between Mafura and Mundame, Cameroons, does not, judging fnnn the 

 description, differ from S. bullenianus except in the density of the indumentum. 



10. S. gracilis, K. Schum. <i' Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 370. A 

 climbing shrub, 40 ft. high ; branches minutely puberulous when young, 



