Strophanthiis.^ Lxxxiv. apocyxace^ (stapf). 187 



Gilg says that this species occupies an isohited position in the frenus. Not 

 liaving seen it myself when the key was drawn np, I placed the si)ecies here. 

 Since tlien I have been ahle to exanjine an authentic sju'cinien, and have no donht 

 that it comes nearest to S. gracilis. 



32. S. sp.) Heckel in Ann. Inst. Colon. Marseille^ iv. 201 -2(»«, icith 

 plate. Follicles cylindric, obtuse, subemarginate, B in. long, 1-I|in. 

 in diam. when closed, almost smooth. Seeds oblong, shortly acumi- 

 nate, velvety, reddish-brown, (5-7 lin. long, 2-2^ lin. broad ; awn 

 l-|-li- in. long, naked part 2-2^ lin. long; hairs Ij-H in. long. — 

 Strophanthus cVAutran, Heckel, I.e. ; Payrau, Strophanthus, 1 011-110, 

 with figs. 



£ower Guinea, (laboon : (Tiirgue, near Libreville, Ant ran. 



P>:1 S. sp., Fax in Enyl Jahrh. xv. o84. Follicles 7-10 in. 

 long, 2\ in. broad, greyish-brown to brown, very hard. Seeds brown, 

 obtuse at the base or subobtuse, O-G^ lin. long; awn 2},-2h in. long, 

 the naked part longer than the plumose. — Karzfriichti'ger Strophcmt/ms, 

 Pax, I.e. 



A dru<^ imported, according to Pax, from West Africa, Lake Victoria, Kili- 

 manjaro and the Mozambique Coast. 



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34. S. sp., Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 3^."). Follicles lO-l:^ in. long 

 slender, brownish, moderately iiard. Seeds greenish-brown, very acute 

 at the base, 10 lin. long; awn plumose from the base, 10 lin. long; 

 hairs lO-lo lin. long. — Senegal Stroj^hanthas, Pax, I.e. 



Upper Guinea. Upper Senegal. 



35. S. sp., Helbing in Pharm. Journ. xvii. (.18S7), 74S. Seeds 

 similar to those of S. Komhe, but more densely covered with looser, 

 longer, almost white silky hairs. — " White StropJumthus," Helbing, I.e. 



nXozamb. Dist. Sliire Highland?. 



31. ISONEMA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 712. 



Calyx small, subcoriaceous ; sepals 5, almost free, imbricate, acute, 

 alternating with large 2-3-partite glands. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 

 naked at the mouth, cylindric ; lobes with a lateral crisp lobe on the 

 inner (left) side, inflexed in bud, overlapping to the right. Stamens 

 inserted near the mouth of the corolla ; anthers conniving in a 

 cone, exserted, lanceolate, sagittate, wings thin with thick incurved 

 margins ; tails slender, acute ; foot of connective rather flat with a dense 

 tuft of hairs in the centre ; filaments filiform, short, passing into long 

 thin much projecting hairy ridges on the corolla-tube. Disc o. Carpels 

 2, free ; style filiform, long ; stigma capitate, 5-grooved, viscous, with a 

 reflexed frill at the base, and a small 2-lobed apiculus, agglutinated to 

 the hair-tuft of the anthers; ovules numerous, multiseriate. Moricarps 

 follicular, cylindric, slender, divaricate; placenta much intruding. 



