TAXONOMY 



latex tubes which ramify through the cortex and mesophyll tissues. 

 Leaves alternate, opposite or verticillate, simple, entire, deciduous 

 or evergreen. Inflorescence cymose. Flowers regular, pentamer- 

 ous, rarely tetramerous; sepals five, gamosepalous, green, rarely sub- 

 petaloid to petaloid; petals five, slightly to deeply gamopetalous, in 



PIG. 225. Strophanthus hispidus Branch and seed with comose awn. (Sayre.) 







shape varying from open tubular, stellate, to elongate tubular to 

 elongate funnel-shaped, in color varying from greenish-yellow to 

 white or from yellow to yellow-red to crimson to crimson-purple to 

 nearly purple-blue; stamens five, epipetalous; pistil usually bicarpel- 

 late; ovary two-celled with central placentation; style more or less 



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