STROPHAN’THUS DIVER’ GENS, 
— ‘STROPHANTHUS, : 2 = 
EXOGEN 2, ie Sak; es a ais 
* “Natural het “iy 
3 this adele eae 
NATURAL ORDER, APOCINACER, 
- Artificial divisions PENTANDRIA, 
SS, to which * MONOGYNIA 
ih 
i | this Plant belongs. i a OF LINNEUS. 
No, 150. 
COROLLIFLORE 
OF 
DECANDOLLE, 
ENUS. Srropuantaus. Decanpotte. Coroxta infundibuliformis, Faux 
coronata . s 10 indivisis. Limsr lacinie caudate. Stamina medio 
tubo rta. ANTHERE so aristate vel mucronate. — 2 
Serie av pee sre paints Stigma subcylindraceum. Sevama 5, 
Fottic — CES sarmentosi (semper?) Pee: optaibe 
pogyn 
Brown: Trans. Went: Soc. 1 
SPECIES. Srropr PHANTHUS DIVERGENS. sess Bieta: agen: rami 
ia, sae 
oppositis, patentissim ras verr’ ulatis; 
stipulis parvulis, acu aatbil pene terminalibus, ‘Maohouag segmentis 
calycinis bracteisque iia subulat 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, STROPHANTHUS. Corouta funnel- 
shaped; throat crowned with ten undivided scales; segments of the 
limb long and slender. Stamens inserted into the middle of the 
tube. ANTHERS sagitate, awned or mucronate. GERMENS two. 
Sryte one, filiform, dilated at the apex. Stigma subcylindrical. 
Sca.es five, hypogynous. FOLLIcLes unknown. 
_ DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, STROPHANTHUS DIVERGENS. SHRUB 
little more than two feet high, erect, and in no degree sarmentose or 
climbing. BrancHEes numerous, as well as all the subdivisions, 
spreading at right angles. Bark brown, and thickly sprinkled with 
light coloured warts. Leaves crowded on the extremities of the 
branches, suberect on short petioles, opposite, lanceolate-oblong, or 
sometimes inclining to ovate, dark green, shining, undulate, midrib 
prominent, veins strong, nearly transverse, united in arches near the 
edges of the leaf, mucronulate. STripuLes very small, pointed, rigid, 
connivent, one at each side of the axils of the leaves, and several on 
the outside of the bud within the axil. PEDUNCLEs terminal, once, 
twice, or rarely oftener guest: often three — gig “ the end 
of the peduncle, the centr t expands, an othe 
but not very frequently two at a time unless ‘the peduncle is frequcelly 
