Raphionacme.] LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 271 
3. R. splendens, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 301. Stem 
erect, simple, 6-8 in. high, minutely puberulous. Leaves distant, the 
two or three lower pairs reduced to mere rudiments or scales, the upper- 
broken off in the specimens seen, their short remains (petioles ?) linear, 
subterete, velvety. Flowers few (3-4 on the specimens seen), large, 
arranged in a lax terminal cyme, erect; pedicels about 1 in. long, 
puberulous. Sepals 1-14 lin. long, ? lin. broad, ovate, acuminate,. 
puberulous, minutely ciliate. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base; tube- 
exceedingly short, #-1 lin. long; lobes 9-104 lin. long, 3-53 lin. 
broad, oblong, obtuse, reflexed, puberulous outside, glabrous within, 
bright rosy-purple with whitish margins. Coronal-lobes arising from 
the base of the staminal filaments, 1 in. long, erect, filiform, very 
shortly and broadly dilated at the base, simple or bifid at the apex, 
glabrous. Filaments of the stamens 21 lin. long, abruptly dilated at 
the base, where they are transversely oblong, thick, fleshy, and com- 
plicately 2-keeled on the inner side, glabrous ; anthers 3 lin. long, 
linear, glabrous, connivent over the tapering angular apex of the 
style, and connate at their tips. Pollen-carriers with a deeply bifid 
lanceolate blade. 
East Tropical Africa. Without locality, Scott-Elliot ! 
This species is remarkable for its very few leaves, and large flowers. There are- 
no lateral lobules to the coronal-lobes as described by Schlechter, who has evidently 
mistaken the base of the staminal filaments for coronal-lobes, the latter are quite 
simple, or occasionally bifid at the apex. 
_ 4. R. globosa, A. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 118. Stem erect, 
simple, puberulous, leafy nearly to the apex. Leaves distant, 
2451 ae long, ple in. broad, on petioles 12 lin: long, elongate- 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, minutely pubescent and slightly rough 
to the touch. Flowers in terminal globose heads { in. in diam., 
on peduncles 3-11 in. long; bracts 1-2} lin. long, subulate or 
filiform ; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 2-23 lin. long, 
subulate from an ovate base, puberulous, ciliate. pare ted 
2-21 lin, long, campanulate, with 5 small pockets within at the base, 
lobes 24 lin. long, spreading, very minutely puberulous outside, white. 
Coronal-lobes arising at the mouth of the corolla-tube, divided into 
three filiform segments, the middle one 2 lin. long, the lateral about 
1 En. long.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1. 679.  Raphiacme 
globosa, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 221. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Malange, Mechow, 327! Huilla; in thickets near 
Lopollo, Wel witseh, 4178: 
). R. angolensis, V. Z. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 248.. Stems 
1-2 ft. high, branching or simple, erect, or decumbent in the lower part, 
purplish, pubescent with short curved hairs, as are also both sides of 
the leaves, peduncles, pedicels, bracts, calyx and outside of the corolla. 
Leaves 1-23 in. long, 1-13 in. broad, on petioles 2-7 lin. long, elliptic 
or elliptic-oblong, about equally obtuse at both ends, or sometimes sub- 
acute at the base, “somewhat fleshy” (Welwitsch). Cymes terminal, 
