-250 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Cryptolepis. 
varying from narrowly lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acute or obtuse 
and apiculate, cuneate or rounded at the base, pallid beneath. Cymes 
subaxillary, subsessile, or on peduncles up to } in. long, 3-16-flowered, 
not dense, trichotomous, $—} in. in diam.; bracts }—1 lin. long, ovate, 
obtuse ; pedicels 1-14 lin. long. Sepals 3—? lin. long, oblong, obtuse, 
minutely ciliate at the apex. Corolla quite glabrous, yellowish-green, 
ovoid and rather acute or acuminate in bud; tube 2-1 lin. long, cam- 
panulate; lobes 14-1? lin. long, 3-3} lin. broad, oblong or lanceolate, 
oblong, obtuse; sinus-pockets entire or produced into a minute tooth, 
not ciliate. Coronal-lobes inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube, 
44 lin. long, subrhomboid, subterete or clavate, obtuse or acute, fleshy. 
Anthers deltoid, very acuminate. Follicles diverging at an angle of 
about 80°, 3-3} in. long, about } in. thick, narrowly fusiform, gradually 
tapering from about the middle to a subacute point, glabrous. Seeds 
about 4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, narrowly oblong, convex on one side, 
concave with a central ridge on the other, minutely scabrous.—Letadium 
oblongifolium, Meisn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1843, 542 (442 by error) ; 
Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 827; Walp. Rep. vi. 481. Secamone acutifolia, 
Sond. in Linnea, xxiii. 76; Walp. Ann. iii. 48. Hctadiopsis oblongi- 
folia, Benth. in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 471; Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 14; K.Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 219. Z. acutifolia, Benth. in Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Pl. ii. 741; 
K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 219. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Ankole; on dry grassy hills on the East side of Lake 
Albert Edward, Scott-Elliot, 8066! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: between Massi Kessi & Revue, 
Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 239! 
Also in South Africa. 
14. C. Elliotii, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 300. Stems erect, 
‘branching, scaberulous. Leaves }—1 in. long, 3-6 lin, broad, on see 
4-1 lin. long, elliptic-oblong, about equally subobtuse at both en 2% 
apiculate, margins revolute, glabrous on both sides, whitish or glaucous 
beneath. Cymes lax, terminal, corymbose, the main branches 3-10 iin. 
long, glabrous, ultimate cymules 3—4-flowered ; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, 
glabrous. Sepals 1 lin. long, 3-} lin. broad, oblong or elliptic-oblong; 
very obtusely rounded at the apex, minutely ciliate. Corolla Ceri 
ovoid, and obtuse in bud; tube 1 lin. long, campanulate ; lobes 1} lin. 
long, 1-1} lin. broad, somewhat rhomboidal-oblong in outline, obtuse 
and unequal sided, that side which is on the inside when in the bue 
being broadest and produced into a distinct angle at the middle ; ie 
pockets truncate, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes arising from the mia 
the corolla-tube, rather less than } lin. long, fusiform-clavate, acu” 
incurved. 
. wot 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Urundi Hills, Scott-Elliot, 8372 - 
: his 
Schlechter also included a specimen of C. oblongifolia, Schlechter yen par 
name, but I have retained his name for the present plant, as it is evident tha 
