Secamone. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 279 
3. S. retusa, V. LY. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 248. A scrambling 
or climbing: shrub, glabrous in all parts. Leaves coriaceous, pale 
beneath, 1-22 in. long, 7-10 lin. broad, oblong or obovate-oblong, retuse 
or emargina‘ce, with a short apiculus ; base subcuneate; margins revolute ; 
petioles 1-1/} lin. long. Cymes few, axillary, pedunculate, laxly 2-3 
times dichotomously branched ; branches t-# in. long, slender, distantly 
2-3-flowered ; bracts } lin. long, ovate, acute; pedicels | 3-2 lin. long, 
slender. Sepals 4 lin. long, elliptic, obtuse. Corolla 2 lin. in diam., 
rotate-campanulate, lobed to 7 of the way down; lobes oblong, obtuse. 
Coronal-lobes minute, deltoid-subulate, spreading, shorter than the 
Stamens. Style protruded much beyond the anthers; apical part broadly 
obconic, truncately 2-lobed. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Kirk / 
4. S. Alpini, Schult. in Roem. &: Schult. Syst. Vey. vi. 125 (excl. syn. 
Secamone, Alpin. dgypt. (ed. 1640) 133, and 134 fig.). A scrambling 
shrub, Stem woody, glabrous or with a rust-coloured deciduous pubescence 
on the very young parts. Leaves subcoriaceous; petiole 1-4 lin. long ; 
blade 3-2} in. long, 4-1 in. broad, oblong, elliptic or lanceolate, obtuse, 
acute, or shortly acuminate, acute or cuneately rounded at the base, gla- 
brous on both sides in the adult state, rusty-puberulous when very young. 
Cymes in terminal or axillary, pyramidal or corymobose panicles, }—1} 
in. long and broad, and excluding the corolla rusty-puberulous or sub- 
glabrous in all parts; peduncles }-} in. long; bracts } lin. long, 
ovate, acute ; pedicels 14-2} lin. long. Sepals } lin. long, ovate, obtuse 
or subacute. Corolla 13-2 lin. in diam., glabrous outside, pubescent 
with white hairs inside; tube scarcely } lin. long; lobes spreading, 
$-} lin. long, $ lin. broad, oblong-ovate, subacute or minutely and 
obliquely emarginate at the apex. Coronal-lobes about 4} lin. long, 
subulate, incurved over the tips of the anthers. Style about equalling 
or slightly exceeding the anthers, apical part stout, truncate. — Follicles 
widely divergent or slightly reflexed, 3—4 in. long, about 14 lin. thick, 
subterete, tapering to a rather long point. Seeds } in. long, { lin. 
broad, linear-lanceolate, channelled down the face, very convex on the 
k, blackish-brown, glabrous, crowned with a tuft of long white hairs. 
—S. Thunbergii, E. Mey. Comm. 224; Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 501; 
\; Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 263. Periploca 
Secamone, Linn. Mant. Alt. 21 6, excl, both synonyms ; Thunb. Prodr. 47, 
and Fi, Cap. ed. Schult. 233. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Malosa, 4000- 
6000 ft., Whyte / Mount Zomba, 4000-5000 ft., Whyte ! 
Also in South Africa. 
a As the above quoted specimens are without fruit, the fe 
aetna from South African examples. The species is easi 
Owers being pubescent inside. . b 
The Egyptian plant described and figured by Alpino has been ee 
wuthors. Linnaeus & Schultes wrongly refer it to this gga ores + to 
Sccur north of the Ec dw known to Alpino. 
“quator and was ul ee rs no 
stelma Alpini, Decne., a somewhat remarkable error, as Alpino’s figure bea 
ollicles and seeds are 
ly recognised by the 
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