406 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEEZ (BROWN). [ Zylophora. 
flowered racemes, }-} in. long and }—} in. distant ; pedicels 3-4 lin. 
long, pubescent. Sepals 2 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent, 
minutely ciliate. Corolla rotate, 7-8 lin. in diam., 5-lobed to rather 
more than half-way down, apparently dark purple-brown ; lobes 23 lin. 
long and the same in breadth, obliquely orbicular-oblong, very obtusely 
rounded, with a fold at the apex. Coronal-tubercles stout, ovoid, 
arising } lin. above the widened base of the 1 lin. long staminal-column, 
reaching to the base of the anthers and entirely adnate, dark coloured 
in the dried state. Anthers erect, subtruncate, scarcely appendaged. 
Style depressed a little below the anthers at the apex, with a convex 
tubercle in the centre.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 1. 691. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Aburi, Johnson ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; forests of Sobato Mussengue and 
near Sange, Welwitsch, 4212! 4213! 4214! forests by the River Delamboa, Wel- 
witsch, 4215! and without precise locality, Welwitsch, 4216 ! 
When I first described this I had only seen very young inflorescences, where the: 
flowers appeared to be subumbellate on the branches of the cyme, but later, the 
branches elongate and the flowers become racemose, The flowers, according to 
Johnson, are dark and have a disagreeable odour. 
2. T. oculata, V. ZL. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 112. Stem 
twining, slender, glabrous. Leaves spreading; petiole 4~7 lin. long ; 
blade 2-3} in. long, 10-15 lin. broad, oblong or ovate-oblong, acuminate, 
cordate with small rounded lobes at the base, glabrous on both sides, 
except for a minute pubescence along the upper side of the midrib 
and petiole. Inflorescence axillary, sometimes from both axils of the 
leaf-pairs, 2-3 in. long, simple or more usually dichotomously 
2—branched 2-3 lin. above the base, unbranched part thinly and very 
minutely pubescent; branches 13-3 in. long, glabrous, each bearing 
2 umbel-like flower-clusters, 4-1] in. distant, the lower one sometimes 
shortly pedunculate; bracts minute, broadly ovate, with a border of 
minute white hairs; pedicels 4-7 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals about 
+ lin. long and broad, deltoid-ovate, subacute, minutely ciliate. Corolla 
+ in. in diam., rotate, pale greenish, with a purple ring around the 
staminal-column ; lobes about 2 lin. long and the same in breadth, 
obliquely oblong, shortly lacerate-fimbriate at the apex, more Or lene 
recurving along the margins, glabrous. Coronal-tubercles radiately 
spreading from a little above the base of the staminal-column, } lin. 
long and broad, fleshy, subquadrate, flat above, very convex beneath, 
obtusely rounded at the apex, dark purple. Staminal-column not- 
widened at the base, about 4 lin. long; anthers broader than long, 
rounded, faintly purplish, with a narrow hyaline margin. Btyle 
exceeding the anthers, pyramidally convex at the apical part, very 
pale greenish. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot ! 
Described from a living plant cultivated at Kew, which was raised from seed 
brought from Sierra Leone by Mr, Scott-Elliot in 1892. 
