Stomatostemma.} AsctePtIADEx (Brown). 531 
purple-brown in the tube, or pink spotted with brown (Gadpin) ; 
tube 2-3 lin. long; lobes 5-6 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, margins 
revolute ; corona-lobes inserted at the sinuses of the corolla, 1 lin. 
long, clavate, fleshy, dark purple-brown or blackish ; anthers acumi- 
nate, connivent over the short conical apex of the style, whitish or 
yellowish. Cryptolepis Montetroe, Oliv. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xvi. t. 
1591; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii., Beibl. 45, 14, and Journ. 
Bot. 1896, 315. , 
Katanari Recion: Transvaal; Avoca, near Barberton, 1900 ft., climbing 
over trees 20 ft. high, Galpin, 1250! Bush Veld, near Warm Bath, 3500 ft., 
Bolus, 12156! 
Eastern REGIon: Delagoa Bay, Mrs. Monteiro! 
Also in Tropical Africa near Lake Ngami., 
Ill. ECTADIUM, E. Meyer. 
Calyx 5-partite; sepals erect. Corolla hypocrateriform; tube 
cylindric ; lobes overlapping to the left and slightly twisted in bud. 
Corona of 5 subulate lobes at the mouth of the corolla-tube, alternat- 
ing with the corolla-lobes. Stamens inserted at the bottom of the 
corolla-tube ; filaments very short, free; anthers adnate at their 
base to the dilated part of the style, produced above into a long 
erect appendage, hairy; pollen granular; pollen-carriers spathulate- 
oblong, emarginate at the apex. Style very much shorter than the 
stamens ; apex rather slender, bifid. Fotlicles widely divergent. 
Shrubby plants, with erect, virgate stems, opposite leaves, and lateral, forked 
cymes. 
Distris. Two species, endemic. 
Leaves 1-2 lin. broad, not pitted in the adult stage ... (1) virgatum. 
Leaves 5-7 lin. broad, pitted in the adult stage... ... (2) latifolium. 
1. E. virgatum (E. Meyer, Comm. Pl. Afr.-Austr. 188) ; stems 
erect, simple or sparingly branched, 1-1} lin. thick, minutely 
puberulous or glabrous; leaves ascending, 1}~3 in. long, 1-2 lin. 
broad, linear, acute, narrowed at the base into a petiole 1-2 lin. 
long, microscopically puberulous or glabrous; cymes 3-6 to a stem, 
bifureate, lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, whitish-tomentose, many 
flowered ; peduncles 2-1 in. long, ascending; bracts 1-2} lin. long, 
subulate; sepals 2-21 lin. long, 3~2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, 
tomentose, ciliolate ; corolla hypocrateriform ; tube 2-2} lin. long, 
about 11 lin, in diam., cylindric, minutely pubescent outside ; lobes 
about 21 lin. long, 2-1 lin. broad, obliquely oblong, spathulate- 
oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, usually somewhat twisted, 
glabrous on both sides; corona-lobes 3-1 lin, long, erect, subulate, 
with a shortly decurrent keel at the base; stamens with filaments 
{ lin. long; anthers deltoid-sagittate at the base, produced into a 
filiform, densely hairy appendage about 1} lin. long, connivent- 
ereet; apex of the style deeply bifid, + lin, long ; follicles widely 
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