388 LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [| Deemia. 
a long beak, varying from densely echinate to nearly or quite free from 
tubercles or processes, pubescent. Seeds 4 in. long, ovate, plano- 
convex, marginate, dentate or crenulate at the broad end, pubescent on 
both sides.—Deene. in DC. Prod. viii. 544; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 
ii. 35; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 343 ; Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 54 ; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 690; Penzig in Atti del Congr. 
Internaz. 1892, 348; De Wild. & Durand, Pl. Thonn. 33, and 
Reliq. Dewevr. 159. D. ethiopica, Decne., and D. angolensis, Decne. in 
DC. Prod. viii. 544; Hook. Niger Fl. 454. D. bicolor, Sweet, Hort. 
Brit. ed. 2, 361. D. scandens, G. Don ex Loud. Hort. Brit. 94. D. 
guineensis, G. Don, Syst. iv. 156. D. barbata, Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 43, not of Klotzsch. D. cordifolia, K. Schum. in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 324, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 257, fig. 
74, and 258, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 40, not of R. Br. 
Cynanchum extensum, Jacq. Miscell. ii. 353, and Ic. Rar. i. t. 54. C. 
cordifolium, Retz. Obs. Bot. ii. 15. C. bicolor, Andr. Bot. Rep. ix. 
t. 562. OC. echinatum, Thunb. Obs. in Cynanch. 8. C. pendulum, 
Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii. 429.  Asclepias scandens, Beauv. Fl. Oware 
et Benin, i. 93, t. 56. A. convolvulacea, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1269;. 
Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 152. A. muricata, Schumach. 
& Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 153. Raphistemma ciliatum, Hook. f. Bot. 
Mag. t. 5704. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! banks of the River Fasena, Dol- 
linger! River Gambia, Don,8! Gold Coast: Accra, Moloney! Vogel, 15! 
Aquapim, Thonning, Larte, Johnson, 821! Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 36! Lagos: 
Lagos, Moloney! Yoruba, Millson! Waro, Punch, 38! Niger Territory, Vogel, 
17! 178! Barter, 1820! Ansell! Cameroons, Preuss, 762 ! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 226, near Suakin, 
Schweinfurth, 228! coast region, Bent! Eritrea: Ailet Gorge, Schweinfurth re 
Riva, 424! Pass of Maigerghebit, Penzig (ex Penzig) ; Bogos, Hildebrandt (ex 
Engler), Beccari, 106! Abyssinia : Tacazze Valley, Schimper, 1631! Sennar,. 
Kotschy, 249! Kordofan, Kotschy, 400! Darfur, Purdy, 75! Somaliland, Miss 
Edith Cole! Mrs. Lort Phillips! James & Thrupp! Riva, 894, and Robeccht 
Bricchetti, 51, 319 (ex Schumann). Uganda: Unyoro, Speke & Grant / British 
East Africa: between Lake Navaisha and Baringo Valley, Gregory, 63! 
Lower Guinea, Loango, Soyaux,94! Angola: Golungo Alto; near Muria,. 
Welwitsch, 4244! Mossamedes; banks of the River Bero, Welwitsch, 4246! 
German South-west Africa : Amboland, Schinz! Damaraland, Zen-! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Usambara, Holst, 2337! Tanga, 
Holst, 2065! British Central Africa: Nyasaland! by the River Shire, Meller! 
Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 263! Zomba Rock, Whyte! Ngamiland; Botletle 
Valley, Lugard, 200! Kwebe Hills, 3300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 202! 
Extends into South Africa and Madagascar, and through Arabia into India. 
I cannot in any way distinguish the various species enumerated in the above 
synonymy: the follicles are immensely variable in their amount of echination, and 
the flowers vary from white or whitish-green, with or without a red blotch at the: 
base of the lobes, to pale yellowish-green or lurid green with a red blotch at the 
base of the lobes. 
4. D. barbata, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 274. 
Stem twining, and together with the petioles, peduncles, pedicels and. 
