Tacazzea. | . LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEE {BROWN). 265: 
‘ This has been distributed from Berlin as 7’. verticillata, K. Schum., from which 
it is quite distinct, the inflorescence being widely different. 
7. T. verticillata, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 115. Stems. 
puberulous, becoming glabrate. Leaves verticillate ; petiole 24-4 lin. 
long ; blade 1-24 in. long, $-14 in. broad, ovate-oblong or oblong, obtuse: 
and mucronate or shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded or truncate 
at the base, glabrous above, pale greyish-tomentose beneath, both sides 
reticulate. Panicles 3-44 in. long, very lax, in whorls of three along 
the terminal part of the stem, the lower in the axils of leaves, the 
upper with the leaves reduced to small bracts; bracts of the panicles. 
$-1 lin. long, ovate, acute, pubescent ; pedicels slender, 3-5 lin. long, 
puberulous, as are also the slender branches of the panicle. Sepals. 
? lin. long, ovate, acute, puberulous. Corolla rotate; lobes 2}—3 lin. 
long, linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, with narrowly revolute margins, 
glabrous. Coronal-lobes filiform, erect, 3-3} lin. long, adnate at their 
base to the lower half of the filaments, which are united with the alter- 
nating shortly bifid lobules into a ring or short tube.—K. Schum. 1n 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 216. 
Lower Guinea. Near Kitamba, Buchner, 612! 
Kitamba is stated to be in Gaboon in the original description, this appears to be: 
anerror, and probably Kitamba on the River Kuango, in Angola, is intended. 
8. T. nigritana, V. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 248, Stem 
glabrous. Leaves spreading ; petiole } lin. Jong; blade 24-3 in. long, 
10-13 lin. broad, oblong, slightly narrowing towards the shortly cuspi- 
date-acute apex, obtuse at the base, glabrous above, covered with a 
short close pubescence beneath. Panicles 2 in. long, pedunculate, quite 
glabrous in all parts; peduncles $—} in. long ; pedicels 2-3} lin. long 5 
bracts 1-3 lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, deciduous. Sepals 4 lin. 
long, broadly ovate, subacute, glabrous. Corolla lobed nearly to the 
ase ; lobes 2—24 lin. long, glabrous. Coronal-lobes 3 lin. long, filiform, 
erect, tortuous, adnate at the base to the lower half of the filaments, 
which are united with the alternating shortly bifid lobules into a 
short tube. 
Upper Guinea. Lower Niger: Aboh, Barter, 486 ! 
_9. 'T. conferta, V. H. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 247. Stem 
minutely puberulous on the younger parts, becoming glabrous. Leaves 
Spreading, petiolate; petiole } in. long, puberulous ; blade 24-4 in. long, 
1-13 in. broad, oblong or oblong-lanccolate, acuminate, subacute or 
rounded at the base, quite glabrous on both sides. Panicles corymb- 
like, subsessile or with a peduncle up to } in. long; branches 1-2} in. 
ong, ending in a raceme of 3-7 secondary peduncles $—1 in. long, 
Which bear small clusters of 6-8 flowers; bracts 3-1 lin. long, broadly 
Ovate, acute, brown, glabrous ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, and, like the 
peduncles and branches of the panicle, minutely puberulous. Sepals 
4-1 lin, long, broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute, minutely ciliate. 
