244 . LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). | Cryptolepis. 
Hook. Niger Fl. 457; Engler in Engl. Jahrb. x. 244; xix. 148; K. 
Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 219; Walp. Ann. iii. 69. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Curror ! Hereroland : near Salem, 1800 ft., Marloth, 
1455 (ex Engler), near Sorissoris, Gurich, 50 (ex Engler). 
The primary leaves of the main branches are not present upon the specimens | 
have seen, and they are undescribed. 
2. C. hypoglauca, A. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 320. A 
large woody climber with glabrous stems. Leaves distant, sessile, 
34-5 in. long, 241-4 in. broad, and probably larger, oblong, elliptic- 
oblong or elliptic-obovate, very broadly rounded with a reflexed short 
cuspidate point at the apex, cordate and stem-clasping at the base, 
quite glabrous, glaucous beneath. Panicles lateral at the nodes, few- 
branched and few-flowered, 5 in. or more long, including the 3 in, long 
peduncle, quite glabrous in all parts; bracts 4—} lin. long, ovate, 
acute; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, stout. Sepals 1} lin. long, ovate- 
oblong, acute. Corolla-tube 14 lin. long, funnel-shaped ; lobes 5 lin, 
long, ovate, rather abruptly narrowed into a linear, obtuse, spirally 
twisted point, glabrous; sinus-pockets minute, truncate, not ciliate. 
Coronal-lobes inserted just above the middle of the corolla-tube, their 
tips not reaching to the sinuses, rhomboidal-ovoid, thick and fleshy, 
obtusely pointed, connivent over the staminal-column, Anthers 
triangular-acuminate, connivent over the short conical apex of the 
style-—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 219. 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, Holst, 2728 ! 
3. C. apiculata, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 320. Stem 
twining, glabrous, light brown, with many pale lenticels. Leaves 
spreading, glabrous ; petiole 1-4 in. long ; blade 23-4? in. long, 1}-2} 
in. broad, oblong or elliptic-oblong, shortly and abruptly acute, 
cuneately rounded or acute at the base, narrowly revolute at the 
margin, whitish beneath. Peduncles 1-14 in. long. Cymes once 0F 
twice dichotomously branched; branches 3-4 in. long, $ lin. thick, 
racemosely many-flowered, with internodes }-} in. long, glabrous ; 
bracts 3-1 lin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous; pedicels 4 in. long, 
moderately stout, glabrous. Sepals 14-13 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous. Corolla quite glabrous ; tube 1#—2 lin. long, campanulate ; 
lobes 5 lin. long, ? lin. broad, lanceolate-linear, tapering to 4 point, 
spirally twisted; sinus-pockets truncate, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes 
+ lin. long, arising from the middle of the corolla-tube and just reaching 
to the sinuses, rhomboid-ovate, acute, thick and fleshy. Anthers 
triangular, very acute, connivent over the conical acute apex of the 
style.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 219. 
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Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Amboni, Holst, 2564: 
Very closely allied to C. capensis, Schlechter, a native of Natal, but me 
from that species in its stouter cyme-branches, shorter corolla-tube, and in 
coronal-lobes reaching to the top of the tube. 
