Tylophora.]| LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 409 
Axis (or branch ?) of the inflorescence 6—7 in. or more long, zigzag, 
with internodes 7-1} in. long, glabrous, bearing 10-12  several- 
flowered racemes 14-2 lin. long, scattered along it; pedicels 4—5} 
lin. long, very slender, thickened at the apex. Sepals $—% lin. long, 
§ lin. broad, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous, sparsely and most minutely 
ciliate. Corolla rotate, about 44-5 lin. in diam., lobed to about half- 
way from the margin; lobes 14 lin. long, 13-1? lin. broad, obliquely 
produced on one side, very broadly rounded. Coronal-tubercles seated 
near the base of the staminal-column, horizontally projecting for about 
t lin., convex above, concave beneath, rounded. Staminal-column ? 
lin. long, constricted under the anthers, 5-grooved ; anther-appendages 
thick and fleshy, broadly transversely oblong, very obtuse, erect, over- 
topping the pentagonal style-apex, which is depressed and bears a small 
-central tubercle. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 1823! 
8. T. tenuipedunculata, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 144. 
A very slender twiner, glabrous in all parts. Leaves spreading ; 
petiole 3-44 lin. long; blade 1-1} in. long, 4~9 lin. broad, ovate, 
-oblong-ovate, or lanceolate-ovate, tapering to an acute or subobtuse 
point, mucronate, base rounded or subtruncate. Peduncles sublateral, 
1-2 in. long, filiform, bearing two distant clusters of small, dark- 
coloured flowers; pedicels 6-8 lin. long, hair-like. Sepals % lin. long, 
lanceolate, acute. Corolla rotate, 4 lin. in diam.; lobes 2 lin. long, 
narrowly lanceolate-attenuate, acute. Coronal-tubercles minute, 
fleshy, transverse-oblong, seated at the base of the staminal-column, 
which is rather more than 4 lin. long. Style truncate, depressed at the 
pex. 
Lower Guinea. Loango: Chinchocho district, on the border of a mountain 
forest near Povo Zala, Soyaux, 163 ! 
9. T. stenoloba, WV. #. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 257. Stems 
‘slender, twining, pubescent. Leaves probably fleshy; petiole 13-2 
lin, Jong; blade #-1} in. long, 4—8 lin. broad, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 
very obtuse, mucronulate, obtuse or cuneately rounded into the petiole 
at the base, glabrous on both sides, midrib puberulous above, margins 
sparingly ciliolate when young. Flower-clusters sessile at the nodes, 
-several-flowered, pubescent on the exceedingly short axis ; pedicels 7-8 
din. long, hair-like, glabrous. Sepals 4 lin. long, lanceolate, acum- 
inate, glabrous. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base; lobes 24 
lin, long, linear from a widened base, slightly dilated at the apex, 
spirally twisted to the right in bud, glabrous. Coronal-tubercles adnate 
to the filament part of the staminal-column from near its base up to 
the anthers, fleshy, truncate at their base, narrowing upwards. Anther- 
appendages reniform, inflexed over the truncate apex of the style, 
which does not project beyond them.—Astephanus stenolobus, K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 321; and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
li. 223, fig. 65, C, D, and 224. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Doda, Holst, 7977a! 
