248 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). | Cryptolepis.. 
Very closely allied to C. Brazza@i, Baill., but differing in having less congested 
cymes, which in outline are wedge-shaped or obconical and not subglobose, the 
flower-buds are more pointed, more twisted, and the corolla-lobes are longer and not 
ciliate. The texture and colour of the flower in the dried state are also quite 
different, that of C. Brazz@i being darker in colour and more fleshy than in 
C. Baumii. 
10. C. Brazzezei, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1889, ii. 803 
(83 by error). Stem twining, rather slender, smooth. Leaves spreading, 
glabrous ; petiole 1-2} lin. long; blade 14-23 in. long, 4-1 in. broad, 
varying from elliptic-oblong to elliptic, acute, obtusely rounded at the 
base, more or less distinctly 3-nerved. Cymes axillary, subsessile, 
small, dense, subglobose, many-flowered, glabrous; bracts } lin. long, 
ovate, acute; pedicels 1—2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals $—} lin. long, 
ovate, obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla very obtuse in bud, pube- 
scent in the throat of the tube and on the base of the lobes within, 
glabrous outside, white; tube 1 lin. long, campanulate; lobes 1 lin. 
long, 3—} lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, sparsely and very minutely ciliate ; 
margin of the sinus-pockets ciliate. Coronal-lobes arising from the 
middle of the corolla-tube, $ lin. long, fleshy, subulate, obtuse or acute, 
incurved like fish-hooks, sparsely hairy. Anthers acuminate connivent. 
—RHiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 678. C. Brazzai, Henriques in Bolet. 
Soc. Brot. xvi. 67. C. Sizenandi, Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xi. 86. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Marques, 15! 63 (ex Henriques) ; 
Pungo Andongo; plentiful in the thickets of the Presidium, Welwitsch, 4197! 
Huilla ; at Monino, Welwitsch, 4207! banks of the River Lovo, Marques, 217 (ex 
Henriques). : 
The hairs inside the corolla of this and the allied species can scarcely be seen if 
the corolla is examined in a wet state. 
11. C. Welwitschii, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 677, not of 
Schlechter. A small shrub, erect, scrambling or decumbent ; branches 
more or less flexuose, minutely scaberulous, reddish. Leaves spreading, 
glabrous ; petiole 3-1 lin. long ; blade 3-2 in. long, 1$—10 lin. broad, 
varying from linear or linear-lanceolate to elliptic, acute, rounded or sub- 
acute at the base, more or less distinctly 3-nerved. Cymes axillary, 
subsessile, small, densely many- (rarely less than 20-) flowered, minutely 
bracteate ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Sepals ? lin. long, ovate, obtuse, 
minutely ciliate. Corolla glabrous on both sides, white; tube 1 lin. 
long, campanulate ; lobes 1} lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, 
not ciliate; sinus-pockets truncate, entire or denticulate, not ciliate. 
Coronal-lobes arising from the middle of the corolla-tube, 2 lin. long; 
fleshy, subclavate, obtuse or subacute. Anthers acuminate, connivent 
in a cone.—C. myrtifolia, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 301, name 
only; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw., i. 677. Ectadiopsis Welwitschit, 
Baill. (not of Britten). Z. lanceolata, Baill. and FL. myrtifolia, Baill. 
in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1889, ii. 802-803 (82-83 by error); 
Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pilanzenfam. iv. ii. 219. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Huilla, in thickets amongst short 
grass, Welwitsch, 4203! in thickets near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 4206! 
