Raphionacme. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 278 
about 1} lin. broad, linear, subobtuse, narrowed at the base into a 
petiole 4-1 lin. long, nearly glabrous above except along the midrib 
and margins, puberulous beneath. Peduncles lateral and terminal, 
+1} in. long, compressed, puberulous, dichotomously 2-flowered, form- 
ing a terminal lax corymbose inflorescence; pedicels }—} in. long, 
puberulous. Sepals 2 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, very acute, sparsely 
puberulous. Corolla-tube 1 lin. long, subglobose, constricted at the 
mouth, with 10 depressions on the upper half (2 at the base of each 
lobe), glabrous ; lobes 34 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, 
obtuse, glabrous on both sides, minutely rugulose outside, apparently 
longitudinally folded. Coronal-lobes 3 lin. long, filiform, erect and 
tortuous or somewhat incurved at the apex, arising from the very 
shortly dilated fleshy base of the staminal filaments, Stamens about 
1} lin. long. 
East Tropical Africa. Without locality. Scott-Elliot ! 
The original description of this plant is very inaccurate, I find that the coronal- 
lobes have no lateral inflexed lobules whatever. 
8. R. Brownii, Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 91. 
Rootstock tuberous. Stem branching, a foot or more high, with long 
internodes, minutely puberulous. Leaves sessile, 1-11 in. long, 4-3 
lin. broad, linear-filiform, subobtuse, the uppermost reduced to very 
short subulate bracts. Inflorescence terminal, lax, composed of 2-3 pairs 
of opposite cymes on each branch, which are 4—6 flowered, unilateral, 
and ultimately elongate into racemes 1-1} in. long, minutely papillose- 
puberulous in all parts; bracts }—1 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 4-7 
lin. long, slender. Sepals }#-1 lin. long, $ lin. broad, ovate, acute. 
Corolla campanulate; tube 14 lin. long; lobes 2-2} lin. long, 1-1} 
lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse and more or less cochleate at the 
apex, glabrous inside, pink. Coronal-lobes arising at the base of the 
Stamens, 24-3 lin. long, subulate, papillate-puberulous. Stamens 
1 lin. long, with the basal half of the filaments very broad, trans- 
versely oblong, very abruptly contracted into the short filiform upper 
part; anthers ovate-triangular, connivent, with minute cylindric free 
appendages at the apex about 1} as long as the anthers. Follicles erect, 
not at all divergent, 5-6 in. long, about 2 lin. thick, linear-terete, sub- 
torulose, with a slender attenuate apex, minutely puberulous. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: on dry schistose rocks near Falaba, Scott- 
Elliot, 5179! 
Raphiaeme browneana, Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 308, from hills 
near Quamikrum, in Togo, Schlechter, 12956, may be intended for the above species. 
ave not seen it, and there is no description. 
9. R. Welwitschii. Schlechter & Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 97. 
Tuber depressed-hemispherical, 3-5 in. in diam. Stems 2-24 ft. high, 
‘rect or twining, puberulous. Leaves in 5-6 distant pairs on eae 
stem; petiole 2-31 lin. long; blade 1-1} in. long, 5-10 lin. broad, 
obovate-oblong, very obtuse, rounded or subcuneate at the base, softly 
velvety on both sides, whitish beneath. Flowers In dense agar! 
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