Cryptolepis. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 245 
4. C. triangularis, V. H. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 92. A 
glabrous climber, with blood-red resinous juice. Leaves spreading ; 
petiole 2-4 lin. long; blade 1-3 in. lung, $—1} in. broad, elliptic or 
elliptic-oblong, acuminate at the apex, acute or rounded at the base, 
deep green, not shining above, yellowish-green beneath, with the lateral 
veins slightly but distinctly prominent. Cymes terminal on short 
lateral shoots, dichotomus or trichotomus, laxly 3~—7-flowered, with 
branches }-1 in. long; bracts 14-2 lin. long, ovate, obtuse; pedicels 
3-6 lin. long. Sepals 2 lin. long, | lin. broad, ovate, subobtuse. Corolla- 
tube campanulate, 2 lin. long; lobes § in. long, lanceolate-linear, 
auricled on one side within at the base, twisted to the left in bud, 
yellow ; sinus-pockets truncate, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes inserted at 
the middle of the corolla-tube, triangular, with nearly equal sides and 
acute or rounded angles. Anthers connivent over the conical apex of 
the style—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 676. C. sanguinolenta, 
Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 308. Pergularia sanguinolenta, 
Lindl. in Bot. Mag. t. 2532; and in Trans. Hort. Soc. 1826, vi. 72; 
Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 619. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Leprieur! Sierra Leone: near Lumbaraya. Sco/f- 
Elliot, 5013! and without precise locality, cultivated specimen, Don.’ Lagos: 
Yoruba ; Abeokuta, in rocky places, Barter, 3359! and without precise locality, 
Rowland ! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1333 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; by thickets in the deep valleys of 
the rocks of the Presidium, Welwitsch, 5993! 
This plant was introduced by G. Don into the Royal Horticultural Society’s 
garden at Chiswick, where it flowered in August 1823, aud was described by Lindley 
usa Pergularia, I had not made this identification until immediately after my 
description of it was published in the Journal of the Linnesn Society or I should 
have adopted Lindley’s specitic name. The sap is described as blood-red in colour. 
Probably C. Barteri, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 1. in. 219, belongs 
here, but the description is very insufficient, and I have not seen a specimen. 
5. ©. microphylla, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1889, ii. 804 
(84 by error). A much-branched shrub, with milky juice ; stems scram- 
bling or twining, slender, glabrous, slightly rough on the youngest 
parts, becoming smooth with age, nodose from the projecting leaf-scars. 
Leaves with scaberulous petioles 1 lin. long; blade }-1} in. long, 
43-84 lin. broad, oblong-ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, or the 
lowermost obtuse and apiculate, rounded at the base, dull green and 
microscopically scaberulous (densely covered with glandular points, 
Welwitsch) above, glaucous beneath. Cymes terminal or axillary, 
2-3- (rarely more-) flowered; peduncles 4-6 lin. long, slender, gla- 
brous ; pedicels 4-3 in. long, minutely bracteate below the middle, 
glabrous. Sepals ? lin. long and nearly as broad, ovate, subobtuse, sub- 
glabrous, or very minutely puberulous. Corolla whitish, glabrous ; 
tube 14 lin. long, campanulate (swollen above the base, Welwitsch) ; 
lobes 3-3} lin. long, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, more or less wrinkled and 
crisped ; “sinus-pockets scarcely evident, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes 
