180 Lxxxiv. APOCYNACEJE (stapf). [Strophanthus. 



yellowish, J lin. broad. Corolla (in bud) with the tails not quite 1 in. 

 long ; tube shorter than the calyx. 



Itovfer Cvuinea. Lower Cougo : Kimuenza, Gillet, 2083. 



Closely allied, according to Gilg, to S. arnoldianus. 



18. S. sarmentosus, A. P. DC. m BuU. Soc. Philoni. Paris, iii. 

 1 28, t. viii. Jiy. 1. A tall, climbing shrub, quite glabrous ; branches 

 brown, rough, conspicuously dotted with lenticels. Leaves opposite or 

 ternate, ovate to oblong, more or less acuminate, acute or obtuse at the 

 base, 2-4 lin. long, l:j-2j lin. broad, firm, jjapery ; secondary nerves 

 •i-5 on each side, faint in young, prominent below in old leaves ; veins 

 rather distinct ; petiole 2-4 lin. long. Cymes terminal, sessile, few- to 

 1-flowered on short lateral branches, which are for the most part leaf- 

 less, or with young leaves or young leafy shoots ; bracts ovate or oblong, 

 2-4 lin. long, acute or obtuse ; pedicels very short. Calyx 4-7 lin. long ; 

 sepals lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Corolla white, 

 with pink marks inside, glabrous without, minutely puberulous within ; 

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

 wide, funnel-shaped or campanulate, 6-9 lin. long ; lobes ovate or 

 lanceolate, produced into linear tails 2-2 J in. long ; throat-scales purple, 

 subul9.te from a broader base, 3-4 lin. long. Anthers 2 J lin. long, 

 terminating in a bristle about J lin, long, glabrous. Follicles spread- 

 ing horizontally, spindle-shaped, 8-12 in. long, 10 lin. thick, glabrous, 

 almost smooth above, with lenticels in the lower part. Seeds spindle- 

 shaped, brown, silky, 5-6 lin. long ; awn 2-3 in. long, naked for |-2 in., 

 hairs up to \\ in. long. — A. P. DC. in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 

 i. 410, t. 27, fig. 1, and Strophanthus, ii. 2, 3, t. 1 ; Poiret in Diet. Sc. 

 Nat. li. 149; A. DC. Prod. viii. 418; Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, 

 4.")1; Christy, New Com-m. Plants and Drugs, No. 10 (1887), 27; Pax 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 374 (vars. eusaimientosus and pendulus) ; Franch. in 

 Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 ser. v. 282. and in Journ. de Bot. viii. 204 ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182 partly, and in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 319 ; L. Planch. Prod. Apocyn. 79; Durand & 

 Scbinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 191 ; De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. 

 Congo, ii. 40 ; K. Schum. in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 

 307; Payrau, Strophanthus, 85-87, 163, with figs.; Gilg in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxxii. 156, 161. Yar. major, Dewevre in Journ. Pbarm. Anvers, 

 1894, 5-7 (of abstract). .S'. Senegambice, A. DC. Prod. viii. 418. 

 S. pendulus, Kumm. & Hook, in Gray & Dochard, Trav. West Afr. 

 392, t. C. ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 419 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 451. 

 /S'. laurifolius, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 375 (Perrottet's plant, also of 

 DC. ? ) ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 451 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl. 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 182. S. Paroissei, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. vii. 

 320, and in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 ser. v. 290, t. xvi. ; L. Planch. 

 Prod. Apocyn. 58, 83; Payrau, Strophanthus, 88-91, 163, with figs. ; 

 De Wild, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2 ser. i. 35. 



Vpper Guinea. Senegambia : Richard Toll, Leprieur ; Cayor, Zeprieur, and 

 without precise locality, Leprieur, 457, 467. Heudelot, 337 ! Boivin ! Gambia, 



