Marsdenia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 421 
pedicels } in. long. Sepals 14 lin. long and nearly as broad, very 
broadly ovate, acute. Corolla rotate-campanulate, 5-6 lin. in diam. ; 
lobes 13-2} lin. long, 14 lin. broad, oblong or ovate-oblong, very 
obtuse, tomentose along the more or less revolute margins and at the 
apex within. Coronal-lobes barely 1 lin. long, thick and fleshy, 
obliquely truncate at the apex, arising from the base of the staminal- 
‘column, adnate to it in their lower half, and a little shorter than it. 
Anther-appendages inflexed or connivent over the shortly conical style- 
apex. Follicles 3-34 in. long, 14-1} in. in diam., elongate-ovoid, 
acuminate, with numerous broad frill-like wings.—Pterygocarpus 
abyssinicus, Hochst. in Flora, 1843, 78; Walp. Rep. vi. 491. Hoya 
africana, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 639; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 
46; Vatke in Linnea, xl. 217. Dregea africana, Martelli, Florul. 
Bogos. 55; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 1892, 349. Dregea 
abyssinica, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 326; and in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 293 and 294, fig. 90, B. D. rubicunda, 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 693, not of K. Schum. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: Abeokuta, Barter, 3369 ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Ginda Valley, 2800-3300 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 
2186! Keren, Beceari, 48! Galabat : region of Matamma, Schweinfurth, 239! 
Abyssinia: near Sabra, Schimper, 1294! 1366! Medschara (Mejara) Region, 
Schimper, 1573! and without precise locality, Quartin Dillon 4 Petit, 27! 
Sennar: Fazokl, Kotschy, 566! Jur: Wau, Schweinfurth, 1696! British East 
Africa: near Lake Marsabit, Zord Delamere! near Lake Baringo, 3400 ft. 
Johnston ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith! Angola: Cazengo; forests of 
Muxaulo, Welwitsch, 4226! Libongo; forests by the River Litune, Welwitsch, 
4227! Bumbo; in the Chella Mountains, Welwitsch, 4248! MHuilla; near the 
Banza, Welwitsch, 4249! 
Barter notes the flowers as cream-coloured, Welwitsch as greenish-yellow outside, 
whitish inside. 
5. M. rubicunda, V. £. Br. A stout woody climber, with the 
tips of the shoots, young leaves, inflorescence (except the corolla), and 
young fruit more or less covered with a salmon-red tomentum. 
Leaves 11-3} in. long, }-3 in. broad, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, acute, 
obtuse or subtruncate, apiculate, varying from broadly cuneate to cordate 
at the base, glabrous or pulverulent beneath in the adult state. Cymes 
asin M. abyssinica ; pedicels 3 lin. long. Sepals 1 lin. long, lin. broad, 
elliptic-oblong or elliptic-ovate, obtuse. Corolla about } in. in diam. ; 
tube short, 1 lin. long; lobes rotate, 24 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, oblong, 
obliquely retuse at the apex, glabrous on the back, pubescent within. 
Coronal-lobes 14-13 lin. long, much longer than the staminal-column, 
ovate, with broad free margins to the adnate part, tapering above 
into free subulate or linear tips, that are incurved and acute, 
emarginate or bifid at the apex, channelled down the face. Staminal- 
column arising near the bottom of the corolla-tube, 1-14 lin. long; 
anther-appendages ovate, acute, inflexed over the convex apex of the 
style. Follicles 3-3} in. long, lanceolate, tapering to a blunt point, 
broadly 4-winged; Wings more or less crenate or obtusely toothed. 
