Orthanthera.]} LXXXY. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). ‘435 
between the sepals) at the base,,cylindric and 1 lin. in diam. above; 
lobes 24-6 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, more or less spreading, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, recurved along the margins, glabrous on the inner 
face. Coronal-lobes } lin. long, adnate to the staminal-column, deltoid, 
with broad free outstanding wing-like margins, widely diverging down- 
wards, glabrous. Anthers connivent-erect, ? lin. long, linear, apiculate. 
Style shorter than the anthers; apical part slender, conical, acute. 
Follicles 4 in. long, $ in. thick, fusiform, tapering into a long beak.— 
K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 266 and 264, fig. 77, 
D-E, inaccurate. 0. browniana, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. 
Brandenb. xxx. 264; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 
266. Barrowia jasminiflora, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 630; Delessert, 
Ie. v. 37, t. 88 (inaccurate as to fig.1). Pergularia ? jasminiflora, 
Burch, ex Deene. in DC. Prod. viii. 630. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Amboella; by the Kubango River above Kabindere, 
3700 ft., Baum, 362! and near Kubulo, 3600 ft., Baum, 429! German South- 
west Africa: Amboland; Oshiheke, Sehinz! Olukonda, Schinz! Omulongo, 
Schinz, 144! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; near Lake Ngami, 
Lugard, 23! 
Also in South Africa. 
The Amboland specimens collected by Schinz and described as a distinct species 
(O. browniana), differ from typical O. jasminiflora only in their smaller flowers, 
the corolla-tube being 33—4 lin. long and the lobes 24-3 lin. Jong. The specimens 
‘collected by Baum and Lugard, however, completely connect the two extreme forms, 
‘so that we must regard O. browniana as merely a small-flowered condition of O. 
Jjasminiflora. The foliage of this plant varies very much. 
44, CEROPEGIA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 779. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla tubular, usually more or less inflated at 
the base, straight or curved, 5-lobed ; lobes free or more or less connate 
at their tips, valvate in bud. Corona double, arising from the 
-staminal-column ; outer corona cup-shaped, entire or 5-10-toothed, or 
of 5 bifid or bipartite lobes more or less adnate to the inner coronal- 
lobes and often appearing to form one series with them, or reduced 
to minute pouches alternating with the stamens ; inner corona of 5 
‘short or long lobes opposite the anthers and incumbent on them, or 
erect, dorsally adnate at their base to the cup of the outer corona, or 
laterally to its lobes; in the latter case, the corona appears to be formed 
-of 5 lobes with a tooth on each side at their base. Staminal-column 
arising a little above the base of the corolla, very short and with the 
‘corona included in the inflated part of the corolla; anthers erect, 
ascending or incumbent on the top of the style ; oblong or subquadrate, 
unappendaged ; pollen-masses erect, ascending or subhorizontal, solitary 
in each anther-cell, attached in pairs by very short caudicles to the 
pollen-carriers, or subsessile upon them. Style not longer than the 
anthers, truncate or shortly ‘conical at the apex. Follicles lanceolate 
‘or linear-fusiform, acuminate, smooth. Seeds crowned with a tuft of 
