1S4 Lxxxiv. APOCYXACE/E (stapf). [^Strophanthus. 



Marques:! Huilla ; Morro de Loi)oll(>, WeUvUsch,^^^\ Chitanda Kiver, between 

 (foudkonjc and Katzele, 4000 ff., Baum, Yl"! ! 



BiKoxamb. ]Dist. IJritish Central Africa : Uniii<ju ; Stevenson Road, Carsotiy 

 Iv Herh. Scott- Elliot, 83] 6! 



A hi)ecinien from Fwambo collected l)y Carson in 1889, ditfers from 8316 of 

 Scott-Elliot's collectioji in having smaller flowers on long slender shoots, which 

 spring direct from the ground. There is no other difference, and I suppose it 

 represents merely a starved state. 



24. S. Schucliardti, Pax i7i Engl. Jahrh. xv. 371. A shrub 

 4-5 ft. high, with a hemispheric top, very much branched ; branches 

 tomentose when young, dark brown, dotted with lenticels. Leaves 

 ovate, obtuse or very obscurely acuminate, truncate or subcordate at 

 the base, about 1-1| in. long, |-1 in. broad, thick, softly tomentose on 

 both sides ; secondary nerves o-G on each side, faint ; veins incon- 

 spicuous; petiole 1-2 lin. long. Cymes terminal, sessile, few- to 

 1 -flowered, tomentose; bracts lanceolate, 1-2 lin. long, early deciduous; 

 pedicels up to G lin. long. Calyx tomentose, 2^-^) lin. long ; sepals 

 lanceolate or linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute. Corolla bright purple 

 outside ; limb orange inside, finely puberulous without ; infra-staminal 

 part of tube 1^-2 lin. long, supra-staminal part tubular-campanulate, 

 4—") lin. long; lobes caudate-linear from an ovate base, lin. long; 

 throat-scales small, lanceolate-linear, glabrous. Anthers shortly 

 acuminate. Ovary hairy. — Franch. in Kouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, o ser. 

 V. 27G ; K. Schum. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 1^*2; Hiern 

 in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. G71 ; Payrau, Strophanthus, 1)7-100, 16:), 

 with figs. ; Gilg in EngL.Jahrb. xxxii. ir>4. 



XiOiBi/'er Cruinea. Angola : Hnilla ; Lopollo and between Ferrao da Sola and 

 Xene, Wehcitsch, 5992 ! 



Payrau describes and figures the seeds as lanceolate-oblong, rounded at tlie base, 

 gradually tapering at the upper end, slightly reddish-drab, velvety, 5A-6.] lin. long, 

 with an awn 5 in. long of which one half or slightly more forms the plume. 



25. S. Demeasei, A. I)ev:evre in Journ. Pharm. Anvers, 1894, 8 

 {of the reprint). A climber, quite glabrous (except the corolla) ; branches 

 brown, dotted with lenticels. Leaves ovate, :)J-4 in. long, li-2| in. 

 broad, rounded at the base, subacuminate, thin, membranous ; secondary 

 nerves 5-G on each side, not raised ; reticulation faint; petiole 4-6 lin. 

 long. Cymes terminal (or subterminal ?) on lateral branches, peduncled, 

 2-4-flowere(l ; peduncle slender, often curved, 3-4 lin. long; bracts 

 small, early deciduous ; pedicels 2-4 lin. long. Calyx 'i-'l^ lin. long; 

 sepals ovate, subacuminate. Corolla puberulous outside ; infra- 

 Staminai part of tube 2 lin. long, supra-staminal part tubular, 4 lin. 

 long ; lobes attenuate into linear tails from a lanceolate base, 1— 1| in. 

 long ; throat-scales linear from a broader base, 1 lin. long. — Durand & 

 Schinz, Etudes Fi. Congo, i. 101 ; Gilg in Jahrb. xxxii. 156. 



Xiower Guinea. Congo Free State : Bnana, 1960 ft., Demev.se, 518 ! 



A' cry closely allied to S. iniermedkis^ Pax, and perliaps not specifically distinct. 



