534 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). { Raphionacme. 
1-2 lin. long; blade 2~14 in. (11-23 in. ex Oliver) long, 33-7 lin. 
broad, oblong-ohovate, obtuse, shortly apiculate, thinly puberulous 
above, softly pubescent beneath ; cymes from one axil, few-flowered ; 
peduncle and branches of the cyme each about 2-3 lin. long, pubes- 
cent; bracts 1-2 lin. long, ovate, acute, brown, pubescent ; pedicels 
11-2 lin. long, pubescent; sepals 1 lin. long, 3—{ lin. broad, ovate, 
acute, pubescent ; corolla about 1 in. in diam., minutely pubescent 
outside, glabrous within, green; tube about 3 lin. long and broad, 
campanulate, internally with 5 decurrent broadly 2-winged nectaries 
alternating with the stamens; lobes ascending, 5-6 lin. long, 23-3 
liv. broad, ovate-oblong, obliquely subemarginate at the obtuse © 
apex, strongly revolute along the margins ; corona-lobes inserted at 
the sinuses of the corolla, very broad at the base, and laterally 
adnate to the base of the corolla-lobes, 8-fid; lateral teeth about 
1 lin. long, deltoid-oblong, obtuse, incurved, middle tooth 2 lin. 
long, subulate, incurved over the anthers ; staminal filaments 2 lin. 
long; anthers 18-2 lin. long, oblong, apiculate, connivent and 
connate at the tips; pollen-carriers 1} lin. long; blade broadly 
ovate or cordate, obtuse; stalk slender, dilated towards the base ; 
gland large, rectangular; style broadly and obtusely conical at the 
apex, shorter than the anthers. Chlorocyathus Monteiroe, Oliv. in 
Hook. Ic. Pl. xvi. t..1557 ; Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 1896, 314. 
Eastern Region: Delagoa Bay, cultivated specimen, Mrs. Monteiro / 
Described from a plant sent to Kew in 1882 by Mrs. Monteiro, which 
flowered in July, 1886. 
2, R. Flanagani (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii., Beibl. 45, 2) ; 
stem twining, puberulous on the young parts; leaves spreading, 
petiolate; petiole 13-6 lin. long; blade 2-32 in. long, 3-15 in. 
broad above the middle, elongate-oblong, oblong-oblanceolate or 
obovate, acute, or obtuse and apiculate or very shortly cuspidate, 
more or less cuneate at the base, flat or wavy along the margins, 
rather thinly puberulous and dark green above, velvety puberulous 
and pale brown or pale greyish beneath in the dried state; cymes 
subaxillary, subsessile or on peduncles 1-6 lin. long, 3-1 in. in 
diam., many-flowered; bracts 1-2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
pubescent; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; sepals 2-1 lin. long, ovate, acuce 
or subobtuse, pubescent; corolla velvety-pubescent outside ; tube 
1 lin. long, campanulate; lobes spreading, 21-32 lin. long, }-1; lin. 
broad, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or subacute ; corona-lobes 
tripartite, middle segment 2-31 lin. long, tortuous, lateral segments 
4_] lin. long, all subulate or filiform; anthers oblong, apiculate ; 
follicles about 2 in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, very minutely 
puberulous. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 302, and 1896, 315. 
R. scandens, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 111. 
Coast Recion: Komgha Div.; among shrubs along the Kei River, 1800 it., 
Flanagan, 118! : 
Eastern Reoion: Natal; Tugela, Gerrard. 1312! near the Umkomapzi 
River, 8000 ft., Schlechter, 6691 ! ; 
