Secamone. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE& (BROWN). 281 
Jahrb, xxiii, 234. Apocynum frutescens, Afzel. Remed. Guin. 28. 
Ichnocarpus Afzelii, Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. iv. 399. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Mbidjem, Thierry, 58! Gold Coast: Aburi 
Hills, Johnson, 442! Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 29! Lagos: Abeokuta, Irving, 12! 
Ikiri, Millen, 51! and without precise locality, Millen, 121! Cameroons: Bipinde, 
Zenker, 1052! Yaunde, Zenker, 1495! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon River, Wann, 937! 
_7. S. micrandra, K. Schum. in Kngl. Jahrb. xvii. 142. Stem. 
climbing, slender, glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, 4-1} in. long, 
1}-6 lin. broad, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or rarely ovate, acute, 
obtuse or rounded at the base. Cymes numerous, small, }—}in. in diam., 
pedunulate, axillary and terminal on short lateral glabrous shoots, 
several-flowered, rusty-pubescent on the 3-5 lin. long peduncle and its 
widely-spreading branches ; bracts 4_} lin. long, ovate, acute; pedicels 
#1 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals } lin. long, ovate, obtuse, glabrous. 
Corolla 2-24 lin. in diam., rotate-campanulate, 5-lobed to 3 of the way 
down, “ bright yellow, sweet-scented ” (Monteiro). Coronal-iobes arising 
towards the base of tne staminal-column and about half as long, com- 
pressed. Anthers not bearded at the apex. Style distinctly protruded 
beyond the anthers; apical part slightly clavate.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 681. 
_ Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambriz, Mouteiro ! Golungo Alto; in dense forests 
in Sobato Quilombo, Welwitsch, 5942 ! 
8. S. leonense, V. “. Br. Stem climbing, glabrous, with the 
exception of sume minute red hairs in the axils of the leaves. Leaves 
spreading, shortly petiolate, 1-1} in. long, 5—9 lin. broad, ovate, acute 
or acuminate, cuneately rounded at the base. Cymes axillary, or 
terminal on short lateral glabrous shoots, or in small panicles 1-1} 
in. long, usually about # in. in diam., trichotomous, with widely spread- 
ing branches, which are minutely reddish-pubescent ; peduncles 3-6 
- long; bracts 4—} lin. long, ovate, obtuse ; pedicels 1} lin. long. 
Sepals + lin. long, ovate, obtuse. Corolla 24-3 lin. in diam., glabrous, 
apparently yellow; tube not longer than the sepals; lobes 1} lin. long,. 
oblong, obtuse, spreading. Coronal-lobes minute, } as long as the 
staminal-column. Anthers slightly hairy at the apex. Style protuded 
jin, beyond the anthers ; apical part very slightly thickened upwards, 
divided nearly to the middle into 2 subulate acute lobes.— 7owocarpus 
eonensis, Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 92. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Sugar Loaf, Scott -Elliot, 5773! 
9. S. usambarica, V. Z. Br. Stem twining, glabrous. Leaves 
Spreading, thinly coriaceous ; petiole 1}—-2 lin. long ; blade }-14 in. long, 
10 lin. broad, oblong or oblong-ovate, acute, rounded at the base, 
glabrous on both sides; secondary lateral veins scarcely or not at all 
Visible on either side. Cymes axillary, about 4 in. in diam., lax, few- 
flowered, with ascending branches; peduncles 2-3} lin. long, glabrous ;. 
