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Travels in Western Africa, in the years 1818, 19, 20, and 21, from the river Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the river NigerGray, William, Major

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Travels in Western Africa, in the years 1818, 19, 20, and 21, from the river Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the river Niger

Name: Travels in Western Africa, in the years 1818, 19, 20, and 21, from the river Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the river Niger
Author: Gray, William, Major

Gray, William, Major

Sudan (Region) -- Description and travel

_Stamina_ quinque, versus medium tubi corollæ inserta. _Filamenta_
alba, breviuscula, curvata. _Antheræ_ sagittatæ, basi intus stigmati
adherentes, apice aristata.

_Pistillum_: _Germen_ ovato-rotundatum, biloculare: _Stylus_
filiformis, cylindraceus. _Stigma_ incrassatum, cylindraceum,
apice truncatum.

_Fig._ 1. Portion of a plant, _natural size_. _Fig._ 2. View of the
mouth of the corolla and the nectary. _Fig._ 3. Stamen. _Fig._ 4. Two
of the stamens, shewing the point of adhesion of the anthers with the
stigma. _Fig._ 5. Back view of a stamen. _Fig._ 6. Front view of the
same. _Fig._ 7. Section of the germen. _All more or less magnified_.

Of this plant Mr. Kummer has given but an unsatisfactory account,
as he only saw the specimen from which the drawing was made, and
which, in his journal, he says that the Cherif Sidi Mahommed (of
Foota Jallo), procured for him.

This species of _Strophanthus_ seems to offer a peculiar character
in its drooping flowers. I am also unable to find that the remarkable
circumstance of the anthers adhering by their base within, and being
firmly attached to the stigma, is mentioned by any author as existing
in other individuals of this curious genus.

Most of the species of _Strophanthus_ inhabit equinoctial Africa. The
_S. dichotomus_ which is a native of China, is the only one of
the genus, as far as I know, which has yet been introduced to our
gardens. There is an excellent representation of it in the _Botanical
Register_, tab. 469.

[Illustration: _G. Scharf Lithog:_

_Printed by C. Hullmandel._

_Strophantus pendulus._

_London. Pub: by J. Murray, Albemarle Stt. 1825._]


                                TAB. D.

                   PTEROCARPUS AFRICANUS. GUM KARI.
                 CLASS AND ORDER—DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
                      _Natural Order—Leguminosæ._

GEN. CHAR. _Calyx_ quinquedentatus. _Legumen_ falcatum, foliaceum,
varicosum, ala cinctum, non dehiscens. _Semina_ aliquot solitaria.
_Willd._

Pterocarpus _Senegalensis_; foliis pinnatis, foliolis ovalibus
fructibus lunato-orbiculatis pubescentibus.

HAB. Prope Kacundy et aliis locis montanis, vulgaris. Fl. mense
Decembri.

_Arbor_ mediocris, ramis diffusis, cortice pallida.

_Folia_ pinnata, decidua, foliolis ovalibus alternis integerrimis,
glabris, superne nitidis nervosis, nervis parallelis approximatis,
petiolis partialibus brevissimis.

_Racemi_ compositi, terminales.

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Travels in Western Africa, in the years 1818, 19, 20, and 21, from the river Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the river NigerGray, William, Major

History

Travels in Western Africa, in the years 1818, 19, 20, and 21, from the river Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the river Niger

Gray, William, Major

Sudan (Region) -- Description and travel

_Stamina_ quinque, versus medium tubi corollæ inserta. _Filamenta_
alba, breviuscula, curvata. _Antheræ_ sagittatæ, basi intus stigmati
adherentes, apice aristata.

_Pistillum_: _Germen_ ovato-rotundatum, biloculare: _Stylus_
filiformis, cylindraceus. _Stigma_ incrassatum, cylindraceum,
apice truncatum.

_Fig._ 1. Portion of a plant, _natural size_. _Fig._ 2. View of the
mouth of the corolla and the nectary. _Fig._ 3. Stamen. _Fig._ 4. Two
of the stamens, shewing the point of adhesion of the anthers with the
stigma. _Fig._ 5. Back view of a stamen. _Fig._ 6. Front view of the
same. _Fig._ 7. Section of the germen. _All more or less magnified_.

Of this plant Mr. Kummer has given but an unsatisfactory account,
as he only saw the specimen from which the drawing was made, and
which, in his journal, he says that the Cherif Sidi Mahommed (of
Foota Jallo), procured for him.

This species of _Strophanthus_ seems to offer a peculiar character
in its drooping flowers. I am also unable to find that the remarkable
circumstance of the anthers adhering by their base within, and being
firmly attached to the stigma, is mentioned by any author as existing
in other individuals of this curious genus.

Most of the species of _Strophanthus_ inhabit equinoctial Africa. The
_S. dichotomus_ which is a native of China, is the only one of
the genus, as far as I know, which has yet been introduced to our
gardens. There is an excellent representation of it in the _Botanical
Register_, tab. 469.

[Illustration: _G. Scharf Lithog:_

_Printed by C. Hullmandel._

_Strophantus pendulus._

_London. Pub: by J. Murray, Albemarle Stt. 1825._]


                                TAB. D.

                   PTEROCARPUS AFRICANUS. GUM KARI.
                 CLASS AND ORDER—DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA.
                      _Natural Order—Leguminosæ._

GEN. CHAR. _Calyx_ quinquedentatus. _Legumen_ falcatum, foliaceum,
varicosum, ala cinctum, non dehiscens. _Semina_ aliquot solitaria.
_Willd._

Pterocarpus _Senegalensis_; foliis pinnatis, foliolis ovalibus
fructibus lunato-orbiculatis pubescentibus.

HAB. Prope Kacundy et aliis locis montanis, vulgaris. Fl. mense
Decembri.

_Arbor_ mediocris, ramis diffusis, cortice pallida.

_Folia_ pinnata, decidua, foliolis ovalibus alternis integerrimis,
glabris, superne nitidis nervosis, nervis parallelis approximatis,
petiolis partialibus brevissimis.

_Racemi_ compositi, terminales.

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Travels in Western Africa, in the years 1818, 19, 20, and 21, from the river Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the river Niger

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