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Rauwolfia vomitoria

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Name

Identification
Rauwolfia vomitoria Afzel. [family APOCYNACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by G.E. Wickens, 1967
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Flora

Entry for RAUWOLFIA vomitoria Afz. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
RAUWOLFIA vomitoria Afz. [family APOCYNACEAE], Stirp. Guin. Med. Sp. Nov. 1. —Spreng. Syst. i. 834; DC. Prod. viii. 341; Hook. Niger Fl. 446; L. Planchon, Prod. Apocyn. 295. De Wild. Études Fl. Bas et Moyen Congo, i. 70.
RAUWOLFIA Senegambiæ DC. [family APOCYNACEAE], Prod. viii. 340; Hook. l.c.; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 154; De Wild. in Bull. Herb. Boiss, sér. 2, i. 34.
RAUWOLFIA senegambica A. DC. ex De Wild. & Durand [family APOCYNACEAE], Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 3, fasc. ii. 150.
RAUWOLFIA pleiosciadica K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], l.c., and in Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 307.
RAUWOLFIA Stuhlmannii K. Schum. [family APOCYNACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 318
RAUWOLFIA congolana De Wild. & Durand [family APOCYNACEAE], in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxviii. 204, and Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo Bot. sér. 3, fasc. ii. 150.
Information
A shrub or small tree, up to 20 ft. high, glabrous except the inflorescences; young branches quadrangular. Leaves in whorls of 3–4, very variable in shape, lanceolate to elliptic, more or less acuminate at both ends, 3–7 in. long, 1–3 in. broad, thinly membranous; secondary nerves 10–16, much spreading; veins usually very obscure; petiole 3–15 lin. long. Flowers in repeatedly dichotomous finely pubescent cymes, arranged in umbels; peduncles 1/2–3 in. long; primary rays 1/2–1 in. long; pedicels slender, from less than 1/2 lin. to 2 lin. long. Calyx 1/2 to over 3/4 lin. long; segments ovate, obtuse. Corolla white; tube somewhat constricted at the very mouth, 3–3 1/2 lin. long; hairy in the mouth; lobes ovate, obtuse, 1/2– 3/4 lin. long. Carpels free; style slightly thickened and villous towards the base, 1 1/2–2 lin. long. Fruit a simple or divaricate twin drupe; drupes quite free, ovoid, subapiculate, 3 1/2–4 lin. long, red.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Klaine, 892!Congo Lower Guinea Kisantu, Gillet, 203!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 980, 3616, 3621!Congo South Central Niamniam, by the Assika River, Schweinfurth, 3246! Mobanga, on the Congo, Dewèvre, 753. Kiboubou, near Kasongo, Dewèvre, 924! Lemfu, Butaye (Hb. Gillet, 2262); Bangala, Demeuse.Senegambia Upper Guinea Rio Nunez, Heudelot, 910.French Guinea Upper Guinea near Sulimana, 3500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 5318! Duyania, Scott-Elliot, 4823!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Kambia, Scott-Elliot, 4356! Bafodeya, Scott-Elliot, 5501! Bagru River, Mann! and without precise locality, Afzelius! Don! Vogel, 103! Barter!Liberia Upper Guinea Grand Bassa, Vogel, 19!Liberia Upper Guinea interior of Monrovia, Whyte! Greenville, Sim, 5!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Burton & Cameron!Lagos Upper Guinea Ebuta Metta, Millen, 20! Abeokuta, Irving, 23! 64! between Abeokuta and Ibadan, Schlechter, 13037; near Lagos, Rowland!Niger Upper Guinea by the Nun River, Barter, 2091! Nupe, Barter, 1704! Old Calabar, Thomson, 54! 120! Cross River, Johnston!Cameroons Upper Guinea Cameroon River, Mann, 750! Preuss, 903! Batanga, Bates, 32! Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 118! 784! Zenker, 736! 800! 1736! Bipinde, Zenker, 842! 850! 1626B! 2118!

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