Tacazzea. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 267 
velvety and minutely tuberculate ; bracts }-1} lin. long, lanceolate, 
acute, puberulous; pedicels 2-4 lin. long, minutely tomentose. 
Sepals 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, broadly ovate, acute, minutely tomen- 
tose and ciliolate. Corolla rotate, lobed nearly to the base; lobes 
2-24 lin. long, 14-1} lin. broad, oblong, obliquely bilobulate at the 
apex, glabrous, minutely papillose on the inner face. Coronal-lobes 
23-3 lin. long, 4 lin. broad at the base, stout, lanceolate-linear tapering 
to a filiform tortuous apex ; alternating lobules subquadrate, emar- 
ginate, inflexed. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Ruwenzori district ; Kiv 
Scott-Elliot, 7688 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usafua; on the Ngosi or Poroto 
Mountains, 7200 ft., Goetze, 1289! 
Allied to 7. apiculata, Oliv., but with larger leaves, well marked stipules, a 
different pubescence, and much stouter and shorter coronal-lobes. 
13. T. apiculata, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 108, #. 72. 
Stem twining, more or less pubescent or tomentose. Leaves spreading ; 
petiole 3-14 in. long; blade 2-5 in. long, 1-3} in. broad, oblong or 
elliptic-oblong, obtuse, broadly rounded or emarginate and shortly 
cuspidate-apiculate at the apex, emarginate or cordate at the base, 
glabrous above, whitish and densely puberulous or very minutely tomen- 
tose beneath. Panicles 24-6 in. long, more or less pubescent on the 
lower part of the peduncle, elsewhere glabrous ; bracts 1-1 lin. long, 
ovate, obtuse, glabrous; pedicels 3-9 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 
4 lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, brick-red, glabrous. Corolla lobed 
nearly to the base; lobes 3 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, red, glabrous. 
Coronal-lobes 5 lin. long, filiform, erect, tortuous in the upper part, 
adnate at the base to the lower half of the filaments, which are 
united with the alternating shortly bifid lobules into a short tube. 
Follicles 24-3 in. long, 5 lin. thick at the base, tapering gradually to a 
point, glabrous, horizontally diverging, not reflexed. K. Schum. in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 217, fig. 64, L; in. Engl. Pfl. 
Ost.-Afr. ©. 320; in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 454 ; and in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma, vii. 36. 7’. apiculata, Oliv. var. glabra, K. Schum. in Engl. 
ia xvii. 116 ina note, and in Eng!. & Prantl, PAfanzenfam. 1v. 11. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: near the River Genom, Riva, 1093 (ex Schumann). 
White Nile: near Gondokoro, Speke & Grant / at Kana, Schweinfurth, 961! and 
at Fashoda, Schweinfurth, 1070! Blue Nile, Muriel, L,17! Jur: Jur Ghattas, 
Schweinfurth, 1958! Bongo: Ngoli (Nyoli), Schweinfurth, 4075! Uganda: 
Madi; on the banks of the Madi Stream, Speke & Grant, 711 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Ukami; in South Uluguru, 3000 ft., 
Goetze, 223 (ex K. Schumann). 
f Var. 8, benedicta, Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn, Soc. xxx. 91. Leaves varying 
Tom oblong-lanceolate or ovate and acute or acuminate, to elliptic-oblong and very 
obtusely rounded and shortly mucronate at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base, 
glabrous above, whitish-tomentose beneath with much longer hairs than in the type. 
P anicle rather more compact than in the type. Calyx sometimes with some minute 
'rs on the basal part. 
ata, in forest, 6000-8000 ft., 
