670 Lxxxii. APOCYNACE^. [TaberncBmontaua 



sightly tree, with white very fragrant flowers and orange-shaped 

 fruits. In forests ; seeds March 1857. Coll. Cakp. 730. 



Island of St. Thomas.— Inflorescence terminal or sub-terminal, in 

 opposite drooping or nodding cymes ; unexpanded flowers 1^ in. long. 

 Local name " Cata grande." Fl. Dec. 1860. Apparently this species. 

 No. 5988. 



According to Welwitsch, I.e., the seeds are wrapped in corky mem- 

 branes. The plant in St. Thomas, mentioned by Henriques, Bol. Soc. 

 Brot. X. p. 140, as having the native name of " Catta grande," and 

 described by him under the name of '■'■ Orchipeda, n. sp. ? ", is quite 

 different from this. 



The following No. is apparently an undescribed species of 

 Taherncemontana : — 



PuNGO Andongo. — A lactescent tree with obpyramidal subcordate 

 fruit. In forests at the river Tangue ; fr. May 1857. No. 5952. 



11. STROPHANTHUS DC; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 714. 

 Zygo7ierion Baill. in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Par. i. p. 758 (1888). 



1. S. Preussii Engl. & Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 369 

 (1892) ; Franchet in Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat., ser. 3, v. 

 p. 279 (Nov. 1893). 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A shrub, climbing far and widely, not lactescent ; 

 branches dusky-purple, scattered with small white warts; leaves 

 herbaceous, membranous, soft, opaquely green and marked with black 

 spots above, pallid and without spots beneath ; calyx 5-partite, the 

 segments unequal, the 2 outer ones broadly cordate, the 3 inner ones 

 lanceolate ; corolla orange-red, marked inside with 15 purple vertical 

 lines, one-third larger than in S. ecaudatus Rolfe, funnel-sbaped ; the 

 limb 5-cleft : the lobes with very long tails, 5 in. long ; throat- 

 appendages 10, not arched, semicircular ; throat and tube pilose- 

 tomentose ; stamens 5, connivent in a pyramid around the stigmatose 

 part of the style ; anthers sagittate, densely pilose as are also the upper 

 parts of the filaments ; ovary bilobed, densely and shortly pilose ; 

 hypogynous scales 10, approximated in pairs, pale yellowish. In 

 secondary woods between the river Delamboa and the Capopa spring ; 

 fl. end of Dec. 1855. No. 5996. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An evergreen shrub, subscandent or scarcely 

 decumbent upon other shrubs ; corolla from deep sulphur to orange 

 colour ; the tails or appendages of the lobes of the limb green-yellowish ; 

 scales of the throat su Iphur-coloured . In elevated wooded bushy places, 

 in the shade of the gigantic rocks of the prjesidium at Santo Antonio ; 

 fl. middle of Oct. 1856 and Feb. 1857. No. 5995. 



The following No. is doubtfully refei-red to *S'. Preussii : — 



Pungo Andongo.— a robust, bushy shrub ; follicles nearly a foot 

 long. In Mata de Quilanga ; scarcely ripe fr. Dec. 1856. The seeds 

 are ^ to 1 in. long by \ to W in. broad, glabrous, rugose and minutely 

 pitted, comose at the apex with spreading silky sHghtly coloured hairs 

 of about 2 in. in length ; cotyledons plicate. No. 5998. 



2. S. parviflorus Franchet in Journ. de Bot. vii. p. 303 (16 Aug. 

 1893), &^.c., p. 281, t. 11 B. 



GoLUNGO Alto.— A slender, widely climbing shrub ; juice rather 

 viscid, watery, not milky ; branches sarmentose, very slender, long ; 

 branch lets opposite ; leaves membranous, opaquely green and scarcely 



