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very acute, hairy outside. Corolla-tube terete, straight, scarcely subinflated at the 
base, 4 times as long as the sepals, pubescent ; lobes short, lanceolate, obtuse. In 
habit it resembles C. abyssinica, Decne., but is easily distinguished by its irregularly 
sinuate leaves, and especially by its corolla, in which the tube is 4 times as long as. 
the calyx and the lobes very short and obtuse.” 
My description is made exclusively from Schimper’s specimen, which was re- 
ceived from the Paris Herbarium under this name and bears the same number (451) 
as the specimen at Paris, named C. sinuata by Decaisne; but it may not be the 
same as Quartin Dillon’s plant, which I have not seen, and upon which A. Richard 
based his description, according to which, his plant differs from Schimper’s in having 
only 2-3 flowers in an umbel, and a corolla with a straight tube and very short 
obtuse lanceoiate lobes. Vatke quotes Schimper’s number as 491 for this plant. 
8. C. tentaculata, V. H. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 261. Tuber de- 
pressed, 1}—5 in. indiam. Stem twining, slender, growing to 6-10 ft. in 
length, branching, glabrous. Leaves succulent; petiole 1—3 lin. long ; blade 
Z-2 in. long, 4-11 in. broad, linear, oblong, ovate-lanceolate, ovate, or 
spathulate-ovate or spathulate-oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, mucronulate, 
varying from cuneate-acute to subtruncately rounded atthe base, glabrous, 
often undulate on the margins. Umbels sessile, one- to many-flowered ; 
bracts } lin. long, subulate; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals 
1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla slightly curved, sometimes 
drying nearly or quite straight; tube 7-9 lin. long, inflated-ovoid and 
about 4 in. in diam. at the base, cylindric and about 1 lin. in diam. above, 
slightly funnel-shaped at the mouth, glabrous outside, with a few minute 
scattered hairs inside (base of the tube rosy-purple, the rest yellowish, 
Welwitsch) ; lobes free, widely spreading, 5-6 lin. long, tapering from a. 
deltoid base to fine hair-like points, with a few minute hairs on the basal 
part (dull yellowish or greenish, Welwitsch). Outer corona arising } lin. 
above the base of the staminal-column, not produced into teeth, but 
forming 5 truncate pouches alternating with the stamens ; inner coronal- 
lobes 4 lin. long, erect, linear-spathulate, slightly cohering at their tips 
(always ?), the entire corona glabrous (greenish, Welwitsch). Follicles 
4—6 in. long, } in. thick, linear-terete, acuminate into a beak, Seeds 
2 lin. long, oblong-ovate, plano-convex, with a thickened margin, 
glabrous.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 694. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; in dry hilly places, Welwitsch, 4277! in 
the grass plains in Mnceques, near Loanda, Gossweiler, 90! Amboland: Omatope 
and Ondonga, Schinz ! 
Var. puberula, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. i. 695. Stems and leaves more or 
less puberulous. Flowers dull violet-greenish. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in rocky thickets in Morro de Lopollo,. 
Welwitsch, 4268! in sandy thickets near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 4269 ! 
9. C. distincta, V. L. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 262. Stem pro- 
bably twining, stout, 2-24 lin. thick, hollow, glabrous. Leaves probably 
fleshy, thin in the dried state ; petiole 5—8 lin. long; blade 2—3 in. long, 
1-2 in. broad, oblong, ovate-oblong, ovate-lanceolate, broadly elliptic- 
ovate or elliptic-oblong, shortly and abruptly cuspidate-acute or acute 
or acuminate, cordate, with short broadly rounded lobes at the base, 
