408 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE% (BROWN). [ Zylophora. 
on the other, with a winged margin, toothed at the broad end, both 
sides with a minute tufted pubescence, light brown.—DC. Prod. viii. 
610; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 455; K.Schum. in Bull. Soe. Bot. 
Belg. xxxvii. 123; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 691. 7’. silvatica, 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 325; Schlechter, Westafr. 
Kautschuk-Exped. 309; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 286, and 
283, fig. 85, OP, the pollen incorrectly. represented as pendulous. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia (816! from Paris Herbarium, collector not 
stated). Sierra Leone: near Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 5455! Liberia: Cape Palmas, 
Vogel, 3! Gold Coast: Aburi Gardens, Johnson, 770! Togo: Misahdhe, 
Baumann, 511! Lagos: Efe, Millen, 166 ! Interior, Rowland ! by the river at 
Odo Onon, Dawodu, 173! Niger Territory: Jeba and Nupe, Barter, 1321! River 
Nun, Mann, 479! Akassa, Everett Dutton, 29! Cameroons: Batanga district, 
near Bapu, Bates, 197! Fernando Po, Vogel, 237! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Bingila, Dupuis (ex Schumann). Angola: 
Golungo Alto; near Sanches, Welwitsch, 4230! Sange district, Welwitsch, 4231! 
South Central. Congo Free State: near Coquilhatville, Schlechter, 12610 
(ex Schlechter). 
Mozamb. Dist. Germen East Africa, see Engler Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. Th. C., 
325, no localities or collectors quoted. 
Occurs also in Madagascar, but I have not seen it from intermediate localities. 
Probably T. bojeriana, Devaisne in DC. Prod. viii, 607, is this species. 
6. T. oblonga, NV. 2. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 257. A slender 
twiner, glabrous in all parts. Leaves spreading or somewhat deflexed ; 
petiole }-? in. long; blade 24-3 in. long, 1-13 in. broad, oblong to 
elliptic-obovate, shortly cuspidate-acuminate, rather broadly cuneate or 
cuneately rounded at the base. Inflorescence lateral or sublateral, 
consisting of a simple axis 2-3 in. long, bearing 3-4 distant sessile 
several-flowered racemes 13-3 lin. long scattered along it; pedicels 3-4 
lin. long, slender. Sepals 3-3} lin. long, ovate, acute, more or less 
slightly ciliolate. Corolla rotate, about 3 lin. in diam., white ; _lobes 
14 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong, obliquely produced on one side in the 
upper part, very broadly rounded and minutely fimbriate-laciniate on 
one side at the apex. Coronal-tubercles minute, spreading from the 
base of the } lin. long staminal-column, transverse, broadly rounded, 
fleshy, flattened above, very convex beneath, dark coloured in the dried 
state. Style truncate, with 5 decurved rays at its apex. Follicles 
3 in. long, } in. thick, lanceolate, acuminate, winged on each side, 
smooth and glabrous. Seeds (unripe) elongate-ovate, winged, concavo- 
convex, minutely tuberculate on both sides. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 277! 
By some error the diameter of the corolla as stated in my original description 1s 
too great. 
7. 'T. anfracta, V. FE. Br. Stem twining, about 1 lin. thick, 
glabrous. Leaves glabrous ; petiole }—} in. long ; blade 1?-4} in. long, 
1{-23 in. broad, elliptic, rather abruptly and shortly acuminate to a 
very acute point, usually rounded or sometimes cordate at the base. 
