Strophanthus] lxxxii. apocynace.-e. 671 



shining above, paler beneath, shghtly wavy on the margin ; flowers 

 very elegant, not clustered ; calyx 5-partite, green, spreading at the 

 time of the open flower ; corolla funnel-shaped : the tube and quinque- 

 fid limb whitish, quickly turning to a sulphur colour, with purple 

 streaks inside ; the segments of the limb from a broad base caudate : 

 the tails very long, yellowish green ; scales of the corolla-throat 10, 

 scarlet, erect, obtuse, approximated in pairs, with 10 purple lines pro- 

 ceeding from their base towards the bottom of the internally naked 

 corolla-tube ; stamens 5, inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube, 

 exserted, not reaching the level of the top of the corolla-limb ; anthers 

 sagittate, mucronate (the mucro and basal appendages empty), closely 

 connivent around the stigma and thus forming a pyramid completely 

 covering the apex of the style ; carpels 2, coalescent on the sides, 

 smooth ; style 1, cylindrical, thick, soft, white ; stigma sub-cylindrical, 

 pressed by the anthers ; hypogynous scales 0. At the outskirts of 

 primitive forests on the northern side of the Queta mountains, rare ; 

 fl. 2b Dec. 1855. No. 5994. 



3. S. Schuchardtii Pax in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xv. p. 371 (1892); 

 Franchet, l.c.^ v. p. 276. 



HuiLLA. — A shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high ; head hemispherical ; branchlets 

 crowded, verrucose with the scars of fallen leaves : leaves velvety- 

 pubescent, lepidote between the nerves ; calyx greenish purple ; corolla- 

 tube sanguineous-purple. In elevated rocky places near Lopollo, not 

 plentiful, fl. 1 and 2 Dec. 1859 : in rocky places between Ferrao da 

 Sola and Nene ; fl. April 1860. '' Gazellenjugi." No. 5992. 



4. S. intermedins Pax, I.e., p. 375 ; Franchet, I.e., p. 287. 

 GoLUNGo Alto. — A subscandent lactescent shrub, with the habit of 



Cnjptolepis trkuKjulurls N.E. Br. ; corolla-lobes purple beneath, whitish 

 towards the base, inside as well as the corolla-tube deep yellow, almost 

 orange-coloured ; follicles obtusely conical, hard-woody ; at the out- 

 skirts of the forest near the Capopa spring, sporadic, fl. and fr. Oct. 

 1854. A tree-shaped shrub, in old age scandent, called by the negi-oes 

 " Mosua " ; seeds with very elegant coma ; among the Alto Queta 

 mountains ; fr. Nov. 1854. No. 5999. A climbing shrub, called 

 " Bella " in Quilombo, " Mosua " in Bumba and Mussengue, and 

 " Fuco-hamoxi " in Alto Queta ; at Sange, without either fl. or fr. 

 May 1855. No. 5999^. A shrub, standing erect, to 8 ft. high, with 

 a trunk tree-like at the base, and then divided into branched or, if 

 the plant grows solitary, with numerous lax branches from the base, 

 climbing to a great height ; flowers campanulate, handsome, from 

 orange to purplish in colour ; corolla-lobes with very long tails. 

 Among the mountains of Alto Queta ; fl. and fr. Nov. 1854 Coll. 

 Carp. 719. Capopa ; fr. Coll. Carp. 725. 



The negroes cut tubes for their tobacco-pipes from this shrub. In 

 PuNGo Andongo the name Musica is applied to the long cylindrical 

 legumes of Cas.^m Stcbeviana DC. (Welw. herb. n. 1740). 



5. S. ecaudatus Rolfe in Bol. Soc. Brot. xi. p. 85 (1893) 

 {ecaiulatus). 



Zygonerion Welwitschii Baill. in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Par. i. 

 p. 758 (1888). 



PUiNGo Anuongo. — A slender twining shrub, climbing to a great 

 height, copiously lactescent with a yellowish resinous milk ; flowers 

 handsome, whitish-purplish ; follicles about a foot long, green-purplish, 



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