284 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEA (BROWN). | Secamone. 
compressed-quadrate, adnate to and scarcely half as tall as the staminal- 
column. Style truncate, just exserted beyond the anthers, like a 
minute cushion. Follicles 3 in. long and about } in. thick, subterete, 
acuminate, smooth, glabrous.—Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx., Beibl. 
51, 12; K.Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. il. 262. 
Mozamb. Dist. Tropical Transvaal; mountains near Tsacoma (Jacoma?), 
3600 ft., Schlechter, 4540. 
Described from South African specimens, I have seen no Tropical example. 
15. S. punctulata, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 502. Stem elimbing, 
slender, glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, 1-2} in. long, 4-10 lin. 
broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse and apiculate, 
rounded or sub-cuneate at the base, glabrous on both sides. Cymes small, 
axillary and terminal on short lateral shoots, which often become leaf- 
less at the flowering nodes, shortly pedunculate, }—} in. in diam., mode- 
rately compact, with very short subumbellate branches ; peduncles 
1-4 lin. long, nearly glabrous or with a few minute spreading reddish 
hairs; bracts 3 lin. long, ovate, obtuse, minutely ciliate ; pedicels. 
4-1 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals } lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse. 
Corolla 1} lin. in diam., sub-campanulate, 5-lobed to 2 the way down, 
glabrous. Coronal-lobes erect, reaching to the base of the anthers. 
Style exserted much beyond the anthers; apical part clavate-obconic 
or broadly dilated at the top. —K. Schum. in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 324. 
Mozamb. Dist. Pemba Island, Bojer! German East Africa: Zanquebar, 
Kirk! 
: Var. 8 stenophylla,N. E. Br. Leaves 14-21 in. long, 13-3 lin. broad, linear or 
linear-oblong, acute, rounded at the base.—S. stenophylla, K. Schum. in Engl. Pal. 
Ost-Afr. C. 325. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Masheua, Holst, 3510! 
I find no distinction besides the form of the leaves between S. stenophylla and 
S. punctulata, and the Zanquebar specimen is intermediate between the two. 
The name punctulata refers to the dots often visible in the leaves ; they are formed 
by crystals of lime. 
16. S. mombasica, V. £. Br. Stem climbing, with slender 
straight flowering-branches, glabrous. Leaves spreading, thin; petiole 
13-2 lin. long; blade #-Ih in. long, 24-6 lin. broad, lanceolate, more or 
less acuminate, glabrous on both sides. Cymes axillary, small, 3—4 lin. 
in diam., umbellately 3—6-flowered ; peduncles 1-2 lin. long, glabrous ; 
bracts minute, ovate, obtuse, ciliate ; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, glabrous. 
Sepals about } lin. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla 2 jin. 
in diam., glabrous, white ; tube }lin. long ; lobes spreading, 1 lin. long, 
oblong, obtuse. Coronal-lobes compressed, broadly falcate, obtuse, 
reaching to the middle or 3 of the height of the staminal-column. Style 
shortly exserted beyond the anthers ; apical part cylindric, obtuse. 
Wile Land. British East Africa : near Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 1979! 
143- 
17. S. Schweinfurthii, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. te 
a 
Stem twining, glabrous. Leaves thin; petiole 3-1} lin. long; 
