420 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Marsdenia.. 
3. M. zambesiaca, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 338. Stem 
twining, at first more or less puberulous, with the tips and unexpanded: 
leaves reddish-tomentose, becoming glabrous, with a pale brown bark. 
Leaves spreading; petiole }-1} in. long; blade 3-3} in. long, }-2} 
in. broad, sublanceolate, ovate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, acute or 
acuminate, often rather abruptly so, varying from cuneate to subcordate 
at the base, quite glabrous on both sides when fully developed. Cymes 
umbel-like, pedunculate, lateral at the nodes, several-flowered ; peduncles 
4-4 in. long, rusty-pubescent or subtomentose ;_ bracts leafy, deciduous,. 
4-4 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, oblanceolate or obovate, acute, glabrous ; 
pedicels }—} in. long, reddish-pubescent. Sepals large, 24—44 lin. long,. 
14-2 lin. broad, varying from oblong to elliptic-oblong, subacute, thin, 
glabrous, very minutely ciliate. Corolla creamy-white; tube 14-1? 
lin. long, campanulate ; lobes rotately spreading, 4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad,. 
oblong, obtuse or emarginate, glabrous on the back, pubescent within,. 
ciliolate along one margin. Coronal-lobes 1—2 lin. long, as long as or 
slightly exceeding the staminal-column, reaching to the mouth of the 
corolla-tube, linear-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, with 
their free tips incurved over the apex of the style and with narrow 
free margins to their adnate part. Anther-appendages deltoid-ovate, 
acute or obtuse. Style truncate, with a convex disc at the apex. 
Follicles abcut 3 in. long, 14 in. thick, ovoid, narrowed to an obtuse 
point, somewhat fleshy, smooth, glabrous, olive-brown. — Dregew 
macrantha, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 272; K. Schum. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 460, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 326. 
Periploca petersiana, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 1876, 147. 
TT aedeagal Guinea. Angola: Amboella; by the River Kubango, 3200 ft., Baum, 
OU. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uhehe; by the River Lukosse, 2600 ft.,. 
Goetze, 481 (ex K. Schumann). Portuguese East Africa: Raza Island, Forbes! 
Lower Zambesi ; Tete, Kirk ! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Chiromo, Scott~ 
Elliot, 2791 (not 3791 as originally quoted)! Boruma on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 
802! Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, 3000-3500 ft., Lugard, 60! Mrs. Lugard,17! 
Sir John Kirk states on his label that the flowers are “of a faint yellowish colour 
aud have a most offensive smell, unlike anything else I know. If this remains mear 
reed “ed a short time it produces pain in the forehead with all the feelings of cold in. 
the head.” 
_ 4. M. spissa, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1901, 260. A woody 
climber or shrub; young shoots } in. or more in thickness, at first 
reddish-puberulous or subtomentose, becoming glabrous. Leaves 
rather ascending or spreading; petiole 3-1} in. long; blade 13-4 
in. long, }-24 in. broad, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate or cuspidate 
into an obtuse point, varying from cuneately-rounded to subtruncate or 
slightly emarginate at the base, at first with a reddish pubescence, 
becoming glabrous on both sides. Cymes lateral or sublateral, peduncu- 
late, subumbellately and densely many-flowered, minutely reddish- 
tomentose on all parts except on the corolla; peduncles }-1 in. long + 
bracts 1-3 lin, long, linear-oblong to oblanceolate, acute, deciduous }- 
