Strophcmthus.] Lxxxiv. apocynace^ (staff). 177 



broad, obtuse, papillose. Anthers included, 1 J lin. long, with a short very 

 fine point, tomenftose on the back. Ovary hairy. — Franch. inNouv.Arch. 

 Mus. Paris, 3 ser. xv. 279 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. ii. 182, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 230 ; and in Schlechter, Westafr. 

 Kautschuk-Exped. 307; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 070; De 

 Wild. <fe Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 41 ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 

 155, 159. S. bracteatus, De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Con^o, ii. 

 41 and Peliq. Devvevr. ii. 154, not of Franch. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Abui'i, Johnson, 150! Togo, Baumann, 591a! 

 Lagos, Ojinvaye, Milieu, 27! Otta, Barter, 3322! Abeokuta, Harrison, 6! 

 interior, Roivland ! Isliagamo, Schlechter. South Nigeria : Old Calabar, Thomson, 

 9 I Monteiro ! Kolland, 22 I 100 ! Cro?s River, at Ikorofion, Holland, 33 ! 

 Cameroons : Johann Albrechtsliohe, Staudt, 664 ! Yaunde, Zenker Sf Staudf, 301 ! 

 667! Ze/i^er, 244 ! and without precise locality, Preuss, 116! Fernando Po, Mann, 

 171 \ 



TaO-wer Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; bushy places at Santo Antonio, 

 Welwitsch, 5995 ! Golungo Alto ; in woods between tiie River Delamboa and the 

 Capopa spring, Welwitsch, 5996 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State ; in thickets on a humid plain by the River 

 Congo at Bombati, near Xdobo, 1300 ft., Thonner. Bokakata on the River Lulonga, 

 Bewevre, 809 ! 



A pair of follicles collected by G. Mann in Fernando Po in 1860 (about the same 

 time as the flowering specimen No. 177, quoted above") belongs very jirobably to 

 ^S". Preussii. The follicles are hornshaped with rather obtuse ends, 10 in. long, 

 1^ in. in. diam., reddish-brown and smooth. The seeds are oblong-lanceolate, obtuse 

 at the base, long acuminate, brown, downy, 5-6 Hn. long ; the naked foot of the a\vn 

 measures l§-2 in., the plume f-j in. 



12. S. Barter!, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vii. 323. A small 

 scandent shrub ; branches glabrous even when young, reddish-brown, 

 dotted with minute lentieels. Leaves ovate to oblong, shortly acum- 

 inate, rounded at the base, '2-2h in. long, 12-16 lin. broad, mem- 

 branous, firm when mature, quite glabrous ; secondary nerves 5-0 on 

 each side, faint ; veins inconspicuous. Cymes terminal, peduncled, 

 dichotOmous, very loose, minutely puberulous; peduncle \-'2 in. long; 

 bracts conspicuous, foliaceous, thin, oblong or ovate from a constricted 

 base, 5 lin. long, obtuse, crisp ; pedicels up to 5 lin. long. Calyx 

 foliaceous, 7 lin. long ; sepals oblong-spathulate from a narrow base, 

 spreading or with the tips recurved, minutely puberulous. Corolla 

 yellow and chocolate-brown, streaked, puberulous without and within ; 

 infra-staminal part of the tube 3J lin. long, supra-staminal part 

 campanulate, 4~4| lin. long; lobes short, ovate, produced into filiform 

 tail^ 2-3 in. long ; throat-scales triangular, 1-1| hn. long, puberulous. 

 Anthers included, 1| lin. long, with fine setaceous tips 1 lin. long, 

 densely tomentose on the back. Ovary hairy. — Franch. in Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. Paris, 3 ser. v. 279, t. xi. A. ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 155. 



Upper Guinea, Lagos : interior, Rowland ! Abeokuta, Barter, 3346 ! 



13. S. bracteatus, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vii. 324. A 

 perfectly glabrous climbing shrub ; branches very slender and long, 



