404 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). | Tylophoropsis. 
peduncles 1-1} in. long, pubescent, bearing 1-2, 4—9-fiowered umbel- 
like cymes; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, more or less pubescent. Sepals 
2 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous, ciliate. Corolla 5-lobed 
nearly to the base, probably rotate; lobes 2-2} lin. long, oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse and somewhat cochleate at the apex, glabrous out- 
side, puberulous inside, with one margin glabrous. Corona of 5 oblong 
fleshy gibbosities on the basal half of the staminal-column, and with 
or without 5 very minute lobules alternating with them at the base of 
the column, where they are connected in a ring. Anther-tips inflexed 
over the 5-rayed dilated part of the style, the apex of which is slightly 
raised into a button-shaped knob having a depressed line across it and 
not exceeding the level of the anther-tips.—Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2373; 
K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 255. Tylophora 
heterophylla, A. Rich, Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 41, t. 71; Walp. Ann. iii. 61; 
Penzig in Atti del Congr. Bot. Internaz., 1892, 349. Vincetoaicum 
heterophyllum, Vatke in Linnea, xl. 212; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr. 342. Gymnema longepedunculata, Schweinf. in Héhnel, Rudolph-See 
und Stephanie-See, Sonderabdr. 8: K. Schum. in Engl. PA. Ost-Afr. 
C. 325. Spherocodon longipedunculata, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 
Afr, C. 326, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 285. T'ylophora 
longipedunculata, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 338. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: by the River Anseba, the torrent Aibaba, in the Valley 
of Belta and at Geleb, Penzig (ex Penzig). Abyssinia: Tigre; Mount Semayata 
9300 ft., Schimper, 471 (ex Vatke); Wojerat ; Mount Goumassa, 8000 ft., Petit (ex 
Richard) ; and without precise locality, Schimper, 394! 833! Uganda: Ruwen- 
zori; Butagu, in forest, 8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7973! Without locality, Hohnel. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro ; above Marangu, 9100 ft. 
Votkens, 1884! 
The flowers appear to be of a dark purple-brown, with a whitish pubescence 
inside. 
33. TYLOPHORA, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 770. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla very deeply 5-lobed, rotate or rotate- 
campanulate ; lobes more or less overlapping to the left, and sometimes 
twisted in bud. Corona of 5 small or minute tubercles, adnate to oF 
radiating from the filament part of the staminal-column and arising 
near to or at its base. Staminal-column arising from the base of the 
corolla; anthers erect, opening by crescent-shaped transverse slits, 
tipped with a small membranous appendage which is often reduced to a 
mere hyaline margin, their fertile part seated in slight cavities under 
the margin of the dilated apex of the style. Pollen-masses very minute, 
erect, suberect, or horizontal, attached by their middle or near their 
base to very slender caudicles, by which they are affixed in pairs to be 
pollen-earriers. Style pentagonal or 5-lobed at the depressed, fates 
ov convex apex, rarely slightly exceeding the anthers. Follicles smoot ’ 
sometimes winged. Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs.—Twining oF 
erect perennials. Leaves opposite, petiolate. Inflorescence sublate 
