256 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEH (BROWN). [ Chlorocodon. 
In the Gardener’s Chronicle the dorsal processes of the coronal-lobes are inaccurately 
represented as being incumbent on the backs of the anthers, instead of spreading, 
which is their natural position in the open flower. 
2. C. ecornutus, .V. £. Br. (ecornuta by error) in Kew Bulletin, 
1895, 111. Stem, leaves, stipules, and inflorescence as in C. Whiteii, 
but more glabrous. Sepals 1 lin. long and broad, orbicular or elliptic, 
very obtusely rounded, glabrous. Corolla 9-10 lin. in diam., giabrous ; 
lobes 4 lin. long, 2} lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, Coronal-lobes about } 
the length of the anthers, fleshy, transverse and subbilobed or broadly 
obcordate, no dorsal process.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Ptianzen- 
fam. iv. ii. 215, & in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 425. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ribe, near Mombasa, Wakefield ! 
The corolla is rather smaller and dries a darker colour than that of C. Whiteii. 
6. OMPHALOGONUS, Baillon in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 
1889, ii. 812. 
Sepals imbricate. Corolla rotate, ovoid in bud ; lobes overlapping to 
the left, at length spreading. Corona double, spreading, with the 
radiating lobes adnate to the corolla within ; outer lobes obtusely tri- 
gonous, obtuse ; inner lobes obovate-oblong, boat-shaped, concave in 
the middle, obcordate at the apex. Stamens 5, affixed to the bottom 
of the corolla; filaments slender, free; anthers apiculate, setose. 
Pollen granular. Pollen-carrier obovate.—A glabrous twiner. Leaves 
opposite, large, cordate, acuminate, richly penninerved. Cymes lateral 
from one axil, about equalling the petiole, pedunculate, loosely dicho- 
tomous.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. il. 221. 
Omphalagonus, Baill., Hist. des. Pl. x. 300, 
Species 1, endemic, unknown to me, but appears to be allied to Chlorocodon. 
1. O. calopbyllus, Baillon in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. 812; 
and Hist. Pl. x. 300, name only, no description beyond the above. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, ex Baillon. 
7. PERIPLOCA, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 746. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base; lobes 
overlapping and slightly twisted to the left in bud. Corona of 9, 
filiform or linear lobes, arising from the corolla at or a little above 
the insertion of the stamens and opposite to them, simple or divided, 
with or without a more or less broadly dilated base, which is often 
more or less spreading on and adnate to the base of the corolla-lobes, 
and usually two-keeled within. Stamens arising from the corolla a little 
above its base; filaments free, short; anthers adnate to the style at 
their base, hairy on the back or at the base, with the connective 
produced into an apiculus, by which they are usually connate at 
their tips. Pollen granular. Style shorter than the anthers, conve 
