416 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Anisopus.. 
1. A. Mannii, V. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 259. Stem 
twining to a height of 12-15 ft., about 1 lin. thick in the flowering 
part, glabrous, marked with stipulary lines between the bases of the 
petioles. Leaves spreading; petiole }—} in. long, bearing a distinct 
gland at the apex; blade 2}-3 in. long, 14-1} in. broad, elliptic or 
elliptic-oblong, abruptly acuminate into a 5-6 lin. long point, 
broadly rounded, subtruncate or emarginate at the base, glabrous on 
both sides, herbaceous. Umbels globose, many-flowered, distinctly 
axillary and from both axils; the umbel from one axil is pedunculate 
and bracteate, or the peduncle elongates into a bracteate branch up to 
2 in. long (or longer ?), with 2-4 (or perhaps more) nodes, bearing a 
sessile umbel at each node ; whilst the opposite umbel is sessile in the axil 
and developes later; peduncles 4-3 in. long, glabrous ; bracts of the 
pedunculate umbels leafy, }-1 in. long, 14-3 lin. broad, lanceolate, 
acuminate, shortly petiolate or subsessile, glabrous ; of the sessile umbels 
often minute; pedicels 34-6 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals about } lin. 
long and nearly as broad, elliptic-ovate, obtuse, with a few very minute 
hairs on the back, minutely ciliate. Corolla 54-6 (in the dried state 43) 
lin. in diam. ; tube 1-1} lin. long, campanulate; lobes 2 (in the dried 
state 14) lin. long, 14 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtuse, very 
spreading, glabrous outside, pubescent all over within. Outer coronal- 
lobes (?) or thickened sinus-angles } lin. long, } lin. broad, fleshy, 
broadly rounded, pubescent ; inner coronal-lobes arising from the base 
of the staminal-column and as long as it, 1-1} lin. long, adnate up to 
the base of the anthers, thick and fleshy, channelled down the back, 
with acute margins, incurved over the anthers at the apex, acute, obtuse 
or minutely bifid. Anther-appendages ovate, acuminate, erect, adpressed 
to the apical part of the style, which is shortly exserted beyond them, 
moderately stout and conical and sometimes bifid at the apex. Follicles 
6—8 in. long, 4-43 lin. thick (or larger 2), terete, tapering to a shortly 
hooked point, widely divergent, smooth, glabrous. Seeds (very imma- 
ture) 6-64 lin. long, 13-2 lin. broad, narrowly oblong, smooth.—Hook. 
Tc. Pl. t. 2453; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr- 
mum ii-iv, 288. Marsdenia rhynchogyna, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 
Xxill. 234. 
Upper Guinea. Southern Nigeria: Akass:, Everett Dutton, 32! Cameroons 
Lolodorf, Staudt, 376, 356! 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Gabcon: Corisco Bay, Mann, 1862! 
This is the African plant mentioned by Bentham and Hooker f. in Genera 
Plantarum, ii. 777, under Hoya! 
2. A. bicoronata, V. Z. Br. Stem climbing; branches slender, 
with a spreading pubescence on the youngest parts. Leaves spreading ; 
petiole 24-7 lin. long; blade 3-3 in. long, 44-164 lin. broad, oblong, 
acute or somewhat obtuse, acute at the base, glabrous on both sides. 
Umbels 7-10-flowered; peduncles up to 4} lin. long, puberulous ; 
pedicels 5-6 lin. long, filiform, glabrous; bracts minute, lanceolate, 
pilose. Sepals } lin. long, narrowly subulate, pilose. Corolla 2 lin. 
long ; tube semiglobose; lobes spreading, ovate, Outer corona @ 
