178 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACE.E (stapf). [Strophunthics. 



reddish-brown, scantily dotted with small lenticels. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, obtuse at the base, 2J-4 in. long, 

 1-1|- in. broad, papery, firm, whitish beneath ; secondary nerves 6-7 

 on each side, faint ; veins inconspicuous ; petiole 2-2J lin. long. 

 Cymes terminal, dichotomous, very loose, few-flowered ; branches 1-2 

 in. long, multi-bracteate ; bracts foliaceous, whitish or yellowish, 

 ovate, o-oj lin. long; pedicels up to 4 lin. long. Calyx foliaceous, 

 5-0 lin. long; sepals very unequal, outer ones ovate-lanceolate, 

 f^-t^ lin. broad near the base, inner ones much narrower, all 

 acute. Corolla white, with violet veins minutely puberulous on both 

 sides ; infra-staminal part of the tube 8-3 J lin. long, supra-staminal 

 part tubular-cam panulate, 4 lin. long ; lobes ovate, produced into filiform 

 tails 4-4^ in. long ; throat-scales very short, ovate, rounded, pulveru- 

 lent. Anthers included, densely pubescent on the back, distinctly 

 acuminate. Ovary hairy. Follicles slender, 8 in. long, 7^ lin. thick, 

 brown, glabrous, with oblong or linear lenticels. Seeds fusiform, 

 scantily silky, grey, glabrescent, B lin. long; awn plumose almost from 

 the base, with the plume 10 lin. long. — Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 

 Paris, :> ser. v. 280, t. xii. ; Payrau, Strophanthus, 104-106, 102, with 

 figs. 



'XiO'wer Guinea. Freneli Congo: by the River ()fi;o\ve, above Obombi, 

 ThoUon, 745, on rocks at Boue, Thollon, 744. 



Gilt? (ill Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 159) considers this as identical with S. Preussii. 

 I have not seen an authentic specimen. 



Fr.mchet (in Journ. de Bot. viii. 204) states that Pobegnin collected this species 

 near Grand Bassam, on the Ivory Coast ; but his additional remai-ks make it almost 

 certain that Pobeguin's plant belongs to a distinct species. 



14. S. erythroleucus, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxxii. 100. A 

 perfectly glabrous shrub; branches climbing or pendulous, blackish- 

 brown. Leaves more or less oblong, acutely and obliquely long acumi- 

 nate, rounded at the base, 2|-4J in. long, 1^-'>J in. broad, sub- 

 chartaceous ; secondary nerves 7-9 on each side, somewhat oblique, 

 slightly prominent on both sides ; veins loosely reticulating, incon- 

 spicuous ; petiole IJ lin. long. Flowers in loose 3-7-flowered cymes at 

 the end of the branches and branchlets; peduncle 7-12 lin. long; 

 bracts linear, 3J-4 lin. long, J-J lin. broad ; pedicels J-2J lin, long. 

 Calyx 5 lin. long ; sepals linear or lanceolate-linear, narrow acute or 

 obtuse. Corolla whitish, beautifully marked with red ; tube narrow, 

 cylindric to 4J-5 lin. from the base, then suddenly widened into a 

 saucer-shaped portion 1 lin. high ; lobes ovate-oblong, up to ?y lin. 

 long, not quite 2 lin. broad, with filiform tails 10-11 lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Batanga, in clearings, DinMage, 841, 1401 ! 



15. S. parvifloniSy Franch. in rfourn. de Bot. vii. 324. A 

 graceful, usually perfectly glabrous rambling and climbing shrub ; 

 branches very slender and long, reddish-brown; lenticels minute. 

 Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, abruptly acuminate (acumen up to 

 lin. long), rounde<i or snbcordate at the base, 2~?>\ in. long, 1 J-1 J in. 



