Stropfianthiis] lxxxii. apocynacEjB. 671 



shining above, paler beneath, slightly 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 ooroUartube, 

 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. 25 Dec. 1855. No. 5994. 



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

 Franchet, I.e., 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 LopoUo, not 

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

 Sola and Nene ; fl. April 1860. " GazeUenjugi." No. 6992. 



i. S. intennedius Pax, I.e., p. 375 ; Franchet, I.e., p. 287. 



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

 Cryptolepis triangularis 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 negroes 

 " M6sua " ; seeds with very elegant coma ; among the Alto Queta 

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

 "Bella" in Quilombo, "M6sua" in Bumba and Mussengue, and 

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

 May 1855. No. 69996. A shrub, standing erect, 6 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. 

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



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

 PuNGO Andongo the name Mosua is applied to the long cylindrical 

 legumes of Cassia Sieberiana DC. (Welw. herb. n. 1740). 



5. S. ecaudatns Eolfe in Bel. Soc. Bret. xi. p. 85 (1893) 

 (ecaudatus). 



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

 p. 758 (1888). 



PuNGO Andongo. — 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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