282 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE® (BROWN). | Secamone. 
bracts about } lin. long, ovate, subobtuse, ciliolate; pedicels 1} 
lin. long, glabrous. Sepals } lin. long, elliptic, obtuse, minutely 
ciliate. Corolla about 2 lin. in diam., glabrous ; tube about + lin. long ; 
lobes { lin. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Coronal-lobes minute, com- 
pressed, falcate-oblong, obtuse, reaching to about 3 the height of the 
staminal-column. Style shortly exserted beyond the anthers; apical 
part cylindric, obtuse, not at all dilated at the top.—. emetica, var. 
glabra, K. Schum. in Engl. Pf, Ost.-Afr. C. 324. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Masheua, Holst, 3555! 
Probably Stuhlmann, 7356, collected in German East Africa, should be referred 
to this species ; it closely resembles Holst’s specimen in leaves and flowers, but the 
young shoots and peduncles are thinly covered with minute adpressed hairs, which 
are not present in S. usambarica, 
10. S. sansibariensis, A. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 325. 
Branches slender, glabrous. Leaves very shortly petiolate, 3-2 in. long, 
33-7 lin. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 
papyraceous. Cymes axillary and terminal on short lateral shoots, lax, 
3-4 in. in diam., with spreading branches, several-flowered, glabrous. 
Sepals } lin. long, and nearly as broad, oblong-ovate, obtuse, glabrous, 
minutely ciliate. Corolla about 21 lin. in diam., rotate-campanulate; 
lobes {-1 lin. long, twice as long as the tube, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. 
Coronal-lobes minute, linear, subobtuse, reaching to about the middle 
of the anthers, which are glabrous and not bearded or laciniate at the 
apex. Style protuded for } lin. beyond the anthers, apical part 
abruptly dilated into a large, fleshy, subbilobed head, nearly } lin. 
-diam. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Stuhlmann, Coll, i. 533! 490! 573! 572 and 72 
(ex Schumann), 
11. S. floribunda, V. /. Zr. Stem more or less twining, pubes 
-cent on the young branches with short spreading rust-coloured mere 
Leaves shortly petiolate, 1-11 in. long, 4-6 lin. broad, pie 
Shortly acuminate at the apex, acute at the base, glabrous on both sides 
-or with a few hairs on the underside of the midrib ; somewhat glaucous 
beneath. Cymes shortly pedunculate, corymbose, }-1 in. in on 
many-flowered, not dense, clothed in all parts (except the corolla), vine 
a short rust-coloured villous pubescence; bracts $ lin. long, ovale; 
acute; pedicels 1}-2 lin. long. Sepals } lin. long, ovate, ete 
ciliate. Corolla rotate or rotate-campanulate, 2 lin. in diam., 5-10 
to { of the way down, glabrous. Coronal-lobes minute, compr' - 
falcate-subulate, arising from the basal half of the staminal-column- 
Style not produced beyond the anthers. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usmawo ; Kageyi on t 
Lake Victoria, Fischer, 396! 
he south of 
r, different in 
This is similar to $. Whytei, N. E. Br., but the leaves are smalle * ‘the anthers 
texture and glaucous beneath whilst the style is not produced beyon 
-as it isin S. Whytei. 
