Strophanthus gracilis K.Schum. & Pax

HERBARIUM OF THE
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
Plants of Africa
No. Brass and Woodward 20852
Strophanthus gracilis
French Camerouns; Nov. 50, 1949.
Upjohn-Penick Expedition, l9h9-$0
Vine climbing to ca, 7 m* in second growths
of a small clearing in tall riverine rain
forest near coast* Branches & branchlets
dark-purplish, scabrid, with scattered
pale lenticels mostly on underside« Leaves
scabridulous above, less so below; apex
recurred; margins slightly re curved;
upper surface dark dull green, lowar pale
yellowish-green; nerves raised at^bve,
somewhat impressed below; veins obscure;	i
axillary glands reddish. Calyx lpbes spreading,!
reddish-orange with green margins at apex;
glands yellow. Corolla tube &. throat reddish-
orange, throat thickly streaked ¿'with purple-
brown within & without; lobes^ yellow-orange,
mottled & streated with purple-brown; Tails
pale orange-yellow, pendent, easily broken,
ca, 19-22 cm. long. Glands of corolla dark
purple brown. Of two 1-follicular fruits
on vine, one had recently ripened and shed
its seeds, and the other was unripened«
Unripened follicle $0 cm. long x 1*6 cm.
in greatest diameter, straight, tapered to
terminal swellings at both ends, somewhat
flattened laterally, deeply grooved below,
obscurely’grooved above, purplish-brown,
copigusly mottled and somewhat streakBd	i
with pale lentic^Is. Sap not miljky.
Nov. 30, 19Ü9
det. H. J. Beentje
Herbarium Vadense (WAG)
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
04191707
Brass & Woodward No. 20832
Strophanthus gracilis
French Camerouns: Bois des Singes
04191707