Tacazzea. | LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 263 
Cymes subsessile, very lax, 3-6-flowered; pedicels 14-2} in. long, 
slender, glabrous, with one or two pairs of bracts towards the base ; 
bracts 4 lin. long, very broadly ovate, acute, with a few hairs on the 
back. Sepals $ lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, minutely ciliate, and with 
a few minute hairs on the back. Corolla lobed nearly to the base ; 
lobes 3 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, with a short subrectangular fleshy 
boss at their base. Coronal-lobes longer than the corolla-lobes, fili- 
form, erect, tortuous. Lobules alternating with the stamens about as 
long as the filaments and reaching to the gland of the pollen-carrier, 
quadrate, truncate.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iv. it. 
216; Durand & Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, i. 192. 
ae Central. Congo Free State: Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3483! 
Var. B occidentalis, N. E. Br. Stem terete or scarcely angular, greyish. 
Leaves 25-3? in. long, 1-13 in. broad, broader in proportion to their length than in 
the type; veins more conspicuous, more reticulate, primary ones more distant ; intra- 
marginal vein 3-13 lin. distant from the margin. Flowers as in the type, white. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: Eglessa, Millen, 130 of 1893 collection ! 
4. T. rosmarinifolia, V. HZ. Br. Stem erect, terete, somewhat 
woody, very minutely puberulous, with a brown bark; internodes ?-1 
in. long. Leaves in whorls of 3, spreading (or alternate and ascend- 
ing); petiole 2-24 lin. long; blade 2}~22 (3-44) in. long, 13-2 (13-4) 
lin. broad, linear, very acute and pungent-mucronate at the apex, 
cuneate or slightly rounded at the base, glabrous, with minute fleshy 
acute processes scattered along the midrib above, minutely white- 
tomentose beneath, reticulately veined on both sides, narrowly 
revolute along the margins. Cymesaxillary, usually from 2 axils of each 
whorl, ascending, puberulous, trichotomously branched, 11-15 flowered ; 
peduncle 4-1 in. long, slender; branches 3-5 lin. long; bracts 3-1 
lin. long, lanceolate, acute ; pedicels 2-4 lin. long. Sepals 3_1 lin. long, 
3-3 lin. broad, ovate, acute, puberulous. Corolla lobed to 4 lin. above 
its base, quite glabrous; lobes 2 lin. long, ¢ lin. broad, oblong, sub- 
obtuse. Coronal-lobes about } lin. long, stoutly subulate, acute or 
obtuse, very thick and fleshy, incurved, inserted with the stamens at 
the middle of the very short corolla-tube, but adnate up to the sinuses 
of the latter; ut their base are 2 small obtuse lobules embracing the 
staminal filaments. Staminal-column about % lin. long, anthers 
connivent over the apex of the style, connate at their tips, glabrous.-—- 
Zichmolepis rosmarinifolia, Decne. in DO. Prod. viii. 4938; K. Schum. 
Engl. & Prantl, Pilanzenfam. iv. ii. 220. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Amboella; at the Nambali (Kubango) River, 4000 
ft., Baum, 245! and without precise locality, Newton ! Angola, without indication of 
the collector, in Herb. Museum d’ Histoire Naturelle, Paris / 
The above description, with the exception of the few words and figures in 
brackets, is made trom the type specimen of £chmolepis rosmarintfolia, Decne., 
kindly lent by the Director of the Museum d’ Histoire Naturelle, Paris. t he few 
Words and figures in brackets are added from Baum’s specimen, which only differs in 
aving alternate and rather larger leaves, a similar difference occurs in T. Welwitschit, 
