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STROPHANTHUS dichotomus; @. chinensis. 
Chinese Strophanthus. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. APOCYNEE. Brown in Wern. trans. 1. 59.  Ejusd. prodr. 
aE Sect. J. Semina comosa. Fructus bifollicularis, nunc Capsula. bilo- 
cularis. ; ; ; 
STROPHANTHUS. Cor. infundibuliformis. Faua coronata squa- 
mulis 10 indivisis. Limbi laciniw caudate. Stamina medio tubo inserta. 
Anthere sagittate, aristate v. mucronate. Germina 2. Stylus 1, filifor- 
mis, apice dilatato. Stigma subcylindraceum. Squame 5, hypogyne. 
Folliculi *****, Frutices sarmentosi. Folia opposita. Brown in wern. 
trans. 1. 72. . i 
S. dichotomus, ramis pedunculisque dichotomis, foliis mucronato-acuminatis. 
Persoon syn. 1. 299. 
Strophanthus dichotomus. Decand. in ann. du mus. 1.408. Id. in bulletin 
des se. par la soc. philom. n. 64. 123. Lamarck encyc. 7. 471. Smith in 
Rees’s cyclop. in loco. 
Nerium cordatum. Lamarck encyc. 3. 458. Roxburgh flor. ind. ined. 
Nerium scandens. Loureiro cochin. 116. 
Echites dichotoma. Carey beng. 20. 
Echites caudata. Lin. mant. 52. Burm. ind. 68. t. 26. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 
1240. 
(«) cochinchinensis, segmentis calycinis erectis brevissimis transyersé latiori- 
bus. 
(@) chinensis, segmentis calycinis bracteisque erectis transyerst magnoperé 
angustioribus. 
(y) coromandelianus, segmentis calycinis bracteisque recurvatis. | 
Frutex scandens? rami oppositi cortice fusco verruculoso-scabrato. Fol. ° 
opposita, in summis ramis numerosa approximata, oblongo-v. obovato-lanceo- 
lata, saturate viridia, nitida; pet. brevis: stipule collaterali-gemine, 
parvule, virides, intraaxillares, semiovato-lanceolate. Flores inter folia 
ad finem ramorum, plures, dichotomo-cymost, chloroleuci, biunciales v. 
ultra; bractew anguste, lanceolate, erecte. Cal. campanulatus, $ uncie 
vix adequans, virens, 5-fidus segmentis lineari-acuminatis erectis canalicu- 
latis forma moleque fere bractearum; squamule 5 hypogynw virentes subor- 
biculate. Cor. infundibuliformis, estivatione contorta: tubus cum Sauce 
turbinato-contractus subsemuncialis angulosus, solus vix excedens calycem 
constrictus striato-rugatus, faux angulosa intds velutina punctis striisque 
dense consitis punicans; limbus maximus, sesquiuncialis, @qualis, recur- 
vato-patens, lacintis stellato-distantibus, caudato-attenuatis, convoluto- 
canaliculatis, inferne intus colore faucis: corona faucis € squamis 5 cuti- 
ceulosis coloratis bifidis basi divisurarum limbi adnatis, lobis dentifor- 
mibus obtusissimis.. Fil. pallida, brevitér intra faucem libera, indé infra 
omnind adnata fauct ad orificium tubi usque, forma obverse clavatd, pro- 
minentia, lanuginosa: anth. erecte, sagittate, aristato-elongate, conniventes, 
ochroleuce. Germ. viride, subrotundo-didymum, quadrilobo-sulcatum, gla- 
brum, fundo glanduloso calycis incubans: stylus fereé NER, albus, clavato- 
Siliformis, pruinosus, sutura utrinqgue notatus, ut si ex bints conferruminatis: 
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