528 ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). [Cryptolepis. 
The flowers are stated by Mr. Wood on one label to be white, on the other 
yellow, so they probably vary. 
2. C. obtusa (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 110); stem 
twining, glabrous; leaves thinly coriaceous, glabrous; petiole 2-5 
lin. long; blade $—3 in. long, 43-16 lin. broad, oblong, subtruncately 
obtuse, retuse or emarginate, mucronate ; cymes 1~2 in. long, pedun- 
culate, dichotomous, laxly 6—10-flowered, glabrous in all parts, 
axillary, often from both axils, and often arranged in elongate 
leafless (leaves fallen away?) narrow panicles 3-12 in, long, at the 
ends of the lateral shoots; peduneles 1-1 in. long; bracts 4-1 lin. 
long, lanceolate, acute; pedicels 1-2 lin. long ; sepals % lin. long, 
ovate, subacute; buds acuminate, twisted; corolla-tube 1 lin. long; 
lobes 3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous; corona- 
lobes arising at the middle of the corolla-tube, } lin. long, fleshy, 
lanceolate, acuminate; anthers acuminate, connivent ; follicles 3-5 
in. long, 21~3 lin. thick, fusiform-terete, acuminate, glabrous, smooth, 
reflexed when ripe; seeds 3 lin. long, 2-1 lin. broad, oblong-lanceo- 
late, flat with a central keel on one side, convex on the other, 
minutely tuberculate, blackish-brown. N. HE. Br. in Dyer, Fil. 
Trop. Afr. iv. i. 246; Schlechter in Journ. Bof. 1896, 815; K. 
Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 320. 
Eastern Reeion: Delagoa Bay, Speke, 12! Monteiro! Schlechter ! 
Katasari Reaion: Transvaal; Komati Poort, 600 ft., Rogers, 900! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
3. C. delagoensis (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 26); stem 
twining, branched, glabrous; leaves spreading; petiole }—1 lin, 
long; blade 6-10 lin. long, 2-31 lin. broad, elliptie or lanceolate- 
elliptic, acute or mucronulate, glabrous on both sides, pallid beneath, 
papery in texture ; cymes many times shorter than the leaves, 2—4- 
flowered, glabrous; pedicels }—% lin. long, glabrous; sepals scarcely 
1 lin. long, ovate, subobtuse, glabrous ; corolla 11 lin. long, lobed to 
below the middle, campanulate, glabrous; lobes oblong, obtuse ; 
corona-lobes inserted below the corolla-throat, oblong, obtuse, 
glabrous; filaments of the stamens very short; anthers hastate- 
lanceolate, subacute, glabrous, without an appendage; style-apex 
shortly conical. 
Eastern Recion: Delagoa Bay; near Lourenco Marquez, Schlechter. 
4. C. transvaalensis (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 315); a 
woody climber, glabrous in all parts ; leaves spreading, subcoriaceous ; 
petiole 2-4 lin. long ; blade $—1+ in. long, 3—1 in. broad, elliptic or 
elliptic-obovate, obtusely rounded and shortly cuspidate-apiculate at 
the apex, broadly cuneate at the base; apiculus more or less re- 
curved ; undersurface rather pale, densely reticulate ; eymes axillary 
or sublateral, many-flowered, small, about 3 in. long including the 
short peduncle, 6-8 lin. broad, trichotomously or dichotomously 
_ branched, glabrous, including the flowers ; bracts opposite, spreading, 
