542 ASCLEPIADEH (Brown). | Chlorocodon. 
1. C. Whyteii (Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5898) ; stem climbing, 
minutely pubescent ; leaves petiolate, stipulate ; petiole 1-2} in. 
long, puberulous ; blade 4-7 in. long, 3-5 in. broad, ovate or elliptic, 
shortly cuspidate, broadly rounded or cordate at the base, glabrous 
or minutely pubescent on both sides, or softly pubescent beneath ; 
upper surface of midrib with a few deciduous membranous scales ; 
stipules forming a reflexed toothed frill connecting the bases of the 
petioles; panicles 23-6 in. long, minutely puberulous ; bracts 2-3 
lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate ; pedicels 6-9 lin. 
long; sepals 2-2} lin. long, 1-12 lin. broad, ovate, acute, glabrous or 
puberulous ; corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, subrotate ; lobes 
5-6 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate or ovate-oblong, subobtuse, glabrous, 
very minutely ciliate along one margin, purple, with the margins and 
a short central stripe at the base green ; corona-lobes very broad, 
obcordate, white, fleshy, 1 lin. long, 13~2 lin. broad, with a subu- 
late, spreading, purple dorsal process 2-21 lin. long, acute or bifid 
at the apex; follicles 3-4 in. long, 14-14 in. thick, ovoid-lanceo- 
late, obtuse, widely divergent. N. E. Br. in Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. 
i. 255; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 217, f. 64, O-Q; Gard. 
Chron. 1895, xviii. 234 and 243, fig. 48; Wood § Evans, Natal 
Pl. i. 27, t. 8315 Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 314; Hiern, Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 680. Periploca latifolia, K. Schum. in Engl. 
Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C. 321, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 232. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Wentworth, near Durban, Wood! Karkloof 
. 
Forest, and Inanda, near Mr. Groom’s Farm, ex Wood, and various cultivated 
specimens! Zululand; Ungoya Forest, ex Wood. 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
This plant is known by the native name of “ Mundi” or  Umondi” and is 
used asa tonic. In the Botanical Magazine the flowers are represented as being 
of a pale greenish-white, but in the type specimen from which that drawing 
was made, and in every other that I have seen, the flowers are coloured as above 
described. Messrs. Wood & Evans, however, describe a form with “dull 
greenish-white flowers.” In the Gardeners’ Chronicle the dorsal processes of 
the corona-lobes are inaccurately represented as incumbent on the backs of 
= anthers, instead of spreading, which is their natural position in the open 
ower. 
VII. SECAMONE, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla small, rotate or campanulate, 5-lobed to 
the middle or beyond ; lobes variably overlapping in bud, with fleshy 
submarginal ridges and often a central one on their basal half, which 
are decurrent on the tube within. Corona of 5 small or minute 
simple lobes arising from and more or less adnate to the staminal 
column, variable, but often laterally compressed. Stamens arising 
from the bottom of the corolla, united with the dilated part of the 
style but scarcely connate with each other, or only at the very 
base ; anthers minute, erect or connivent around the dilated part of 
the style, terminated by fimbriate membranous appendages, which 
are sometimes connate. Pollen-masses 20 (10 in all other genera 
