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266 LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEE (brown). [ Tacazzea. 
Corolla lobed nearly to the base; lobes 2-24 lin. long, broadly oblong, 
very obtuse with a small apical notch. Coronal-lobes 24-25 lin. long, 
rather stout, filiform, inrolled in the upper part, very shortly connate 
at the base. No lobules alternating with the filaments. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Efat, Roth (154) 407! 
10. 'T. Barteri, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. (1889) 808 (88 
by error). Stem twining, more or less pubescent. Leaves spreading, 
petiolate ; petioles 1} in. long; blade 13-3 in. long, 3-14 in. broad, 
almost exactly oblong, obtuse, shortly apiculate, subcordate at the base, 
quite glabrous on both sides. Panicles 1-2} in. long, pubescent at 
the base of the peduncle, otherwise glabrous ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, 
glabrous ; bracts ? lin. long, ovate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, glabrous. 
Sepals } lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, glabrous. Corolla lobed 
nearly to the base; lobes 3-3} lin. long, narrowly oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous, pale yellow. Coronal-lobes 4 lin. long, filiform, erect, 
tortuous, adnate at the base to the lower half of the filaments. 
Lobules alternating with the stamens, nearly as long as the filaments, 
subquadrate, shortly bifid. Follicles 2 in. long, 4 in. thick at the base, 
tapering to a rather stout point. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Territory: Nupe, Barter, 1086! 
Baillon describes the leaves as “not cordate, rounded at the base,” but ia the 
specimen at Kew they are decidedly more or less deeply notched at the base. 
11. T. Tholloni, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. (1889) 807 (87 
by error). * Entirely glabrous. Leaves oval-cordate, often apiculate, 
pale and strongly veined beneath. The lateral inflorescences are very 
compound, with the principal divisions opposite, 4-8 in. long. The 
subulate scales of the corona are very long and very narrow, folded 
upon themselves in the bud, united intu a ring at the base. The 
summit of the style, above the pentagonal dilation, presents a capitellate 
and two-lobed cone.” 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Brazza, 507. 
T have not seen this species, the above is a translation of the description give™ 
from which it would appear to be something like 7. apiculata, but glabrous. 
12. T. floribunda, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 381. Stem 
twining, puberulous in the young state, minutely tuberculate. Leaves 
petiolate, spreading ; petiole 3-13 in. long, with a pair of glands of 
fleshy processes at its apex; blade 4-6 in. long, 24-4 in. broad, elliptic 
or elliptic-ovate, shortly cuspidate-acute or apiculate, broadly rounde 
at the base, glabrous or with a few minute scattered hairs above, pubert- 
lous or downy beneath, scarcely tomentose; midrib without fleshy 
processes along its upper side. Stipulary line very distinct, thick a? 
projecting, with short stout reflexed and erect teeth. Panicles axillary; 
5-7 in. long (or larger ?), rather lax, with very spreading branches e 
4 in. long, somewhat trichotomously divided, tomentose or minutely 
