252 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Cryptolepis.. 
acute, their sinus-pockets variable, truncate, emarginate or subulate. 
Coronal-lobes arising about } lin. above the base of the corolla-tube, 
3 lin. long, fleshy.—Zctadiopsis suffruticosa, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 
XXvill. 453. 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Uhehe; Iringa, 5000 ft., Goetze, 
665. 
Unknown to me. 
Imperfectly known species. 
17. C. laxa, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Lin. Paris, 1889, ii. 804 (84 by 
error). ‘Cwining, glabrous. Leaves small, ovate, acute, white beneath. 
Cymes pedunculate, lateral, lax and few-flowered. ‘The fruit is formed 
of two long follicles, slender and glabrous, divergent, fornicate. 
Tropical Africa. Brazza, 126 (cx Baillon). 
I have not seen this plant. 
18. C. Barteri, K. Schum. in Engl. d: Prantl, Pllanzenfam. iw. i. 
219. Leaves acute or acuminate, concolorous on both sides. Cymes 
few-tlowered. Pedicles long. 
West Tropical Africa, ex K. Schumann. 
I have not seen this, and the description is quite inadequate for identification, 
but, as suggested on p. 245, it may be the same as C. triangularis, N. E. Br. 
19. Ectadiopsis Buttneri, A. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Plan 
zenfam. iv. ii. 219. A twining shrub. Margin of the sinws-pockets of 
the corolla-lobes ciliate. z 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo; Leopoldville, near Stanley Pcol (ex &. 
Schumann). 
I have not seen a specimen of this plant. 
The description is insufficient for identification and applies equally to at least 
three species, 
3. STOMATOSTEMMA, N. E. Br. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube broadly campanulate ; lobes over’ 
lapping to the left in bud. Corona of 5 fleshy clavate lobes insert 
in the sinuses between the corolla-lobes. Stamens inserted near the 
base of the corolla-tube ; filaments free ; anthers united at their base to 
the dilated part of the style, connivent in a cone, triangular, with the 
connective produced into a fleshy apiculus, glabrous. Pollen granu we 
Pollen-carriers with the margins inrolled soas to nearly form an oblique- 
mouthed tube, broadly ovate when flattened out, grooved down the bac : 
Style shortly conical at the apex, shorter than the anthers. Follicles 
and seeds not seen.—A climbing or bushy shrub, with milky jue 
Leaves opposite. Flowers of moderate size, in few-flowered cyme> 
axillary form both axils and terminal. 
