Toxocarpus. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE4 (BROWN). 287 
1. T. racemosus, .V. /. Br. Glabrous in all parts. Stem twining. 
Leaves spreading ; petiole 5-9 lin. long; blade 24-4 in. long, 1-1} in. 
broad, coriaceous, oblong, rather abruptly contracted into a somewhat 
obtuse cusp about } in. long, rounded or cuneately rounded at the base. 
revolute along the margins; midrib acutely prominent in a channel 
above, prominent and rounded beneath; veins almost horizontally 
spreading, straight, parallel, indistinct. Racemes axillary, }—6 in. long, 
leafless, with 1-3 distant pairs and a terminal flower or occasionally 
with more flowers, and bearing leaves at the lowest nodes; bracts #-1 
lin. long, ovate, acute or obtuse, disarticulating just above the base ; 
bracteoles similar to the bracts, persistent; pedicels 4—7 lin. long, with 
4-5 pairs of bracteoles. Sepals 1 lin. long, oblong or ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, minutely ciliate. Corolla 3 in. in diam.; tube 14-2 lin. long, 
turbinate-campanulate, with 2 small thickened bosses alternating with 
the lobes at the top; lobes 2 lin. long, recurved-spreading, oblong, 
obtuse, with revolute margins, minutely ciliate at the apex. Coronal- 
lobes 1} lin. long, erect, much exceeding the anthers, linear, more or 
less channelled down the face, obtuse, truncate, incurved and slightly 
hooded or slightly dilated at the apex. Style exserted for 1} lin. 
beyond the anthers; apical part slender, attenuate.—Rhynchostigma 
racemosum, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xii. 77, t. 1189; K. Schum. in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 283, fig. 85, R—S, and 287. 
Upper Guinea. (Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 4500 ft., Mann, 1273! 
2.T. brevipes, V. £. Br. Stem twining, covered with short 
retrorsely spreading rust-coloured hairs on the young parts. Leaves 
spreading; petiole 2-3 lin. long, at first rusty-pubescent, becoming 
glabrous; blade 14-3 in. long, 4-14 in. broad, lanceolate-oblong or 
elliptic-oblong, apiculate, broadly or acutely cuneate at the base, glabrous 
on both sides, drying blackish above and brown or tawny- brown beneath. 
Cymes subaxillary, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, dichotomous, with 
ranches 8-74 lin. long, all parts except the corolla covered with an 
adpressed rusty pubescence; peduncles 0-3 lin. long ; pedicels 2-6 
lin. long; bracts 1 lin. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute. Sepals 1-1} 
lin. Jong, oblong-ovate or lanceolate, subacute. Corolla 5-6 lin, in 
diam., white, glabrous, with the exception of a few retrorse hairs within 
the very short tube; lobes very spreading, twisted in bud, 24-34 lin. 
long, 5 times as long as the tube. Coronal-lobes 4—} lin. long, erect, 
* Scarcely or not at all exceeding the anthers, linear, obtuse or subacute, 
flat or slightly channelled down the face. Style exserted for 3-1 lin. 
yond the anthers; apical part conoid, cylindric, fusiform or subclavate, 
obtuse.— Rhynchostigma brevipes, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xii, 78, sub. t. 
1189; K, Schum. in Engl. & Pranti, Pflanzenfam, iv. ii. 287. kh. Layer, 
De Wild. & Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxviii. 208. 
“amone rubiginosa, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 233. 
Upper . ! ‘oer Delta : Nun River, Mann, 484! 
Barter” ee oe aye a sth 365! Batanga, Bates, 329! 
Bipinde, Zenker, 1955! and without precise locality, Prewss, 446 ! 
