Chlovocodon. | LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 255- 
broadly obcordate or obreniform, with or without an erect or incurved 
dorsal process. Stamens arising from the base of the corolla; filaments. 
very short and broad ; anthers large, triangular, adhering to the style, 
connivent in a cone, connate at the tips. Pollen granular. Style not 
exceeding the anthers, conical at the apex.—Large climbers with opposite- 
cordate leaves, well developed frill-like stipules, and axillary panicles of 
moderate sized flowers. 
Species 2, one found also in Natal. 
Allied to Tacazzia, but differing in the broad basal part of the coronal-lobes, 
and in the large frill-like stipules, which (with the exception of 7. stipularis, 
N. E. Br), are absent in Tacazzia. 
Coronal-lobes with a linear dorsal process . ‘ - 1. C. Whiteit. 
Coronal-lobes without a dorsal process . . - 2. C. ecornutus, 
_ 1. C. Whiteii, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5898. Stem climbing, 
minutely pubescent, Leaves distant, spreading ; petiole 1}—2} in. long ; 
blade 4~7 in. long, 3—5 in. broad ; cordate-ovate or cordate-elliptic, 
cuspidate, glabrous or minutely subscabrous-pubescent on both sides, or 
softly pubescent beneath. Stipules forming a reflexed toothed frill,. 
connecting the petioles. Flowers in axillary pedunculate paniculate 
cymes 2}—6 in. long, minutely puberulous on the branches and pedicels ; 
bracts 2-3 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate; pedicels 
6-9 lin. long. Sepals 2-24 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, ovate, acute, 
glabrous or puberulous. Corolla subrotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base ; 
lobes 9-6 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtuse, glabrous, very 
minutely ciliate along one margin, purple, with the margins and a short 
central stripe at the base green. Coronal-lobes very broadly obcordate, 
fleshy, white, 1 lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad, having a widely spreading, 
subulate, linear or linear-lanceolate, purple dorsal process 2-24 lin. 
long, acute or bifid at the apex. Follicles 3-4 in. long, 13-1} in. thick, 
ovoid-lanceolate, obtuse, widely divergent.—Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzen- 
fam, iv. 215 & 217, fig. 64, O-Q; Gard. Chron. 1895, xviii. 234 & 243, 
fig. 48, erroneous as to the corona; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
680; Wood & Evans, Natal Pl. i. 27, t. 31. Periploca latifolia, K. 
Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. C. 321, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 232. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker, 589! 1397! 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Bumbo; in rocky places near the River Bruco, 
Welwitsch, 4221! Pungo Andongo; Barrancos de Songue, Welwitsch, 4220! along 
streams throughout the Presidium, Welwitsch, 4218! in forests, Welwitsch, 4219 ! 
Golungo Alto; mountains of Queta, Welwitsch, 4211! 6013! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1619. 
British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 168! 
Also in Natal, where it is called by the natives “Mundi” or “ Umundi,” the 
root being used as a touic. According to Buchanan the seeds are “said to be used 
88 @n arrow poison.” 
__The flowers are represented in the Botanical Magazine as being pale greenish 
With a purple blotch at the base of the lobes, but in the dried flowers of the type 
Specimen and in all the living flowers I have seen, the colour is as described above. 
Messrs, Wood & Evans, however; describe a form with “ dull greenish-white flowers.” 
