iStrojyhcmtkus.] lxxxiv. apocynace^ (staff). 181 



Sknes ! Ingram ! £roiv n- Lester, S6 I Perroitet I French (Iniiici : Lahny;!, Prt-row*^. 

 Sierra Leone : Scott-]£lliot, 4512 ! 5657 ! Kirk, 39 ! Don ! Smeathman I Hntfon ! 

 WJiiifield ! Barter I Mann, SI Ivory Coast : Grand Kassaiu, Poi^^w/n. Gold Coast : 

 Abuvi Hills, Johnson, 288 ! Ashanti : Akroful, Cummins, 23 ! Togo, Bmtmann, 

 93! Agome Mountains, ScMechter, 12962! Lagos: Ebu Metta, Millen, 25! 

 Abeokuta, Irving ! Ikirun, Millson / and without precise locality, Moloney ! 

 Niger Protectorate : Nupe, Barter, 1325 ! . Old Calabar, Mann, 2246 ! Thomson, 

 16! 



^ow^er Cirvinea. Lower Congo: Kisantu, Chillet ; near Lemba, Denietise, 

 194 ! (exclusive of the seeds ?), and without precise locality, Lajtrenf. 



10. S, ogovensis, Franch. in Joiirn. de Bnt. vii. 324. A ramb- 

 ling or climbing shrub, quite glabrous ; branches brown, dotted with 

 lenticels, the flowering ones rather stout. Leaves mostly ternate, 

 elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, obtuse at the base, 3-3J in. 

 long, l|-2 in. broad, firm, papery, glossy ; secondary nerves r)-6 on each 

 side, raised below; reticulation distinct; petiole 7-10 lin. long. 

 Cymes terminal, few- to 1-flowered, subsessile, produced with the mature 

 leaves ; bracts' numerous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Calyx 

 5-6 lin. long ; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 

 large, purple without, whitish within ; infra-staminal part of the tube 

 3-4 lin. long., siipra-staminal part wide, funnel-shaped, |-1 i'^^- l^n^ ; 

 lobes ovate gradually passing into a linear tail, 2-2J in. long; throat- 

 scales lanceolate-subulate, glabrous, 3 lin. long. Anthers included, 

 glabrous, shortly acuminate. Ovary glabrous. — Franch. in Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, 3 ser. v. 284, t. xv. ; Payrau, Strophanthus, 131. 



Iiower CS-uinea. French Congo : by the Boue Cataracts, on the River Ogowe, 

 ThoUon, 144, 746. 



Giig, in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 162, considers S. ogovevsis as identical with the 

 preceding species. 



20. S, verrucosus, Stajjf. An erect shrub, 0-10 ft. high, quite 

 glabrous ; branches brown or dark grey, dotted with lenticels, more or 

 less rough, with a ring of large thick corky triangular protuberances 

 or ridges below the nodes when old. Leaves ova,te to elliptic, acumi- 

 nate, obtuse at the base, 2J-2J in. long, 1-1 J in. broad, firmly mem- 

 branous ; secondary nerves 3-5 on each side, faint ; reticulation rather 

 obscure ; petiole 4-6 lin. long. Cymes terminal or pseudo-axillary, on 

 leafy branches, subsessile, few- to 1-flowered ; bracts subulate, 2 lin. 

 long; pedicels up to 21 lin. long. Calyx 5-6 lin. long; sepals subu- 

 late-acuminate from a broa.der base, spreading or with the tips recurved 

 when in flower. Corolla wide, funnel-shaped, glabrous or minutely 

 puberulous within ; infra-staminal part of the tube 2-3 lin. long, suprn- 

 staminal part 7-10 lin. long ; lobes ovate or lanceolate, produced into 

 filiform tails, 3i-5l in. long ; throat-scales subulate from a triangular 

 base, 3 lin. long. Anthers included, glabrous, 3 lin. long, produced 

 into a fine bristle, not quite a line long. Ovary glabrous. — S'. peterfn,-^ 

 anus, var. grandi/fo7-^is, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1802, 12() 

 (excluding the Delagoa Bay plant). *S'. sarmentosHS, K. Schum. in Engl. 



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