Strophanthns.'] Lxxxiv. apocyxace.e (staff). 179 



broad, thin, membranous ; secondary nerves 5-G on each side, faint ; 

 veins quite inconspicuous ; petiole almost or up to 1 lin. long. Cymes 

 terminal, peduncled, few-flowered; peduncle 4-10 lin. long, slender ; 

 bracts foliaceous, linear, obtuse, up to 4 lin. long ; pedicels slender, up to 

 4 lin. long, sometimes pubescent. Calyx foliaceous, spreading, T)-!! lin. 

 long ; sepals linear-oblong or linear, outer ones broader, more or less 

 obtuse. Corolla white turning yellow, with purple streaks in the throat : 

 infra-staminal part of the tube 4-5 lin. long, supra-staminal part very 

 suddenly widened, wide-cupshaped, 2 lin. long; lobes triangular, 2 lin. 

 long, produced into filiform tails 2 in. long, yellowish-green ; throat- 

 scales triangular or linear-obtuse, 1-1 i lin. long, scarlet. Anthers 

 included, almost reaching the mouth, glabrous, mucronate. Ovary 

 glabrous. — Franch. in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, :> ser. v. 281 ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. G70 ; De Wild, k Durand, Contrib. Fl. 

 Congo, i. 41 ; Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 155. S. Deicevrei, De Wild, 

 in De Wild. & Dumnd, Contrib. Fl. Congo, ii. 40 and Reliq. Dewevr. 

 154; Gilg I.e. 



^ower Guinea. Angola: Gohing-o Alto; Queta Mountains, rare, Welwitsch, 

 5994 ! 



South Central. Congo Fi*ee State : Luebo, on the Lulna River, Laurent .' 

 Nyangwe, on the Kiver Lualaba, Detvevre, 1058. 



U"). S. arnoldianus. Be Wild, d- Durand in Coniptes-rendits Soc. 

 Hot. Bely. xxxviii. 20G. A rambling, perfectly glabrous shrub ; branches 

 slender, dark reddish-brown, sparingly lenticellate. Leaves ovate 

 or broad-elliptic, abruptly and more or less obtusely acuminate, rounded 

 at the base, 2|-3^ in. long, 1 J-2J in. broad, chartaceous ; secondary 

 nerves 4 on each side ; petiole 2J lin. long. Inflorescences terminal, 

 dichotomous ; bracts linear, membranous, b-ij lin. long, less than J lin, 

 broad ; pedicels slender, 7-10 lin. long. Calyx ^| lin. long ; sepals 

 subsimilar, lanceolate, |-1 lin broad, acute. Corolla very minutely 

 puberulous on both sides ; tube funnel-shaped, 3-3 J lin. long ; lobes 

 ovate, l|-2 lin. long, abruptly produced into filiform tails 2-2 J in. 

 long ; throat-scales ovate, rotundate, very short. Anthers acuminate, 

 IJ lin. long, glabrous on the back. Follicles brown, lenticellate. Seeds 

 ovate -elliptic, brown, silky, lin. long, 2 lin. broad. — Gilg in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxxii. 156. 



Xiower Guinea. Lower Congo: Kitobola, in the Cataract district, Kindt. 



17. S. wildemanianus, Gilg in Engl. Jahrh. xxxii. 159. A 

 perfectly glabrous climbing shrub ; branches slender, Leaves oblong, 

 narrowly acutely and obliquely long acuminate, rounded at the base, 

 3J-4 in. long, IJ in. broad, papery; secondary nerves 11— ] 2 on each 

 side, sub-horizontal, like the loosely reticulating veins slightly promi- 

 nent on both sides; petiole 4-4J lin. long. Flowers (only known in the 

 young state) in loose, few-flowered cymes on the ends of the branches ; 

 peduncle and pedicels slender, the latter 4-4| lin. long; bracts small, 

 narrow, linear. Calyx 3J-4 lin. long; sepals hnear, very acute, 



