246 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Cryptolepis. 
inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube, } lin. long, rather stout, 
fleshy, terete-subulate, erect.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 676. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo ? Kimuenza, Gillet! Angola: Golungo Alto; 
Alto Queta, in shady forests, Welwitsch, 5939! Queta Mountains, Welwitsch, 
5940! 
6. C. obtusa, WV. “£. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 110. Stem 
twining, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, glabrous; petiole 2—5 lin. long; 
blade 3-3 in. long, 4-1} in. broad, oblong, obtuse, retuse or emarginate, 
mucronate, rounded or more or less cuneate at the base. Cymes 1-2 in. 
long, pedunculate, dichotomous, laxly 6-10-flowered, glabrous in all 
parts, axillary, mostly from both axils, and often arranged in elongated 
leafless narrow panicles 3-12 in. long, at the ends of the lateral shoots ; 
peduncles 4-1 in. long; bracts 3-1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute; 
pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Sepals 3 lin. long, ovate, subacute. Corolla 
acuminate, with twisted estivation in bud; tube 1 lin. long; lobes 
3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate; sinus-pockets truncate, not ciliate. 
Coronal-lobes arising from the middle of the corolla-tube, } lin. long, 
fleshy, lanceolate, acuminate. Anthers acuminate, connivent. Follicles 
3-5 in. long, 24-3 lin. thick, fusiform-terete, acuminate, smooth, 
reflexed when ripe. Seeds 3 lin. long, 3—1 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, 
flat, with a central keel on one side, convex on the other, minutely 
tuberculate, blackish-brown.—K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 424, 
and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii., 219. (C. obtusa, K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pfl, Ost-Afr. C. 320. 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: east coast of Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 
56! and without precise locality, Stuhlmann, 7827 (ex K. Schumann), Portuguese 
East Africa: Mozambique, Forbes! Lower valley of the River Shire, Meller ! 
Lower Zambesi ; between Tete and the coast, Kirk ! Zambesi Delta ; Luabo River, 
Kirk, 38! Shupanga, Kirk! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Kondowe to 
Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte! Boruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 829! 
Also at Delagoa Bay. 
I have not seen Stuhlmann’s specimen which Dr. Schumann described in 1895 
o C. obtusa, but judging from the very imperfect description, I believe it to be this 
plant. 
ote C. Hensii, V. Z. Br. Stem twining, rather slender, glabrous, 
wrinkled in the dried state, but not rough with raised points, dark 
reddish-brown, Leaves very spreading, glabrous on both sides ; petiole 
j-1 lin. long; blade 14-2} in. long, 14-34 lin. broad, linear, acute, 
rounded at the base. Cymes sublateral at the nodes 7-8 lin. long 
including the short peduncle, flat-topped, many-flowered, with ascending 
branches, compact, glabrous ; bracts 4-4 lin. long, ovate, acute ; 
pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Sepals 4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 
very minutely ciliate. Corolla campanulate, glabrous outside, pubescent 
at the base of the lobes and in the throat and around the mouth of the 
tube within, white, shortly pointed in the bud ; tube # lin. long ; lobes 
1 lin, long, $ lin. broad, oblong, obtuse and very oblique at the apex 
