764 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). [ Emicocarpus. 
triangular, with 3 spreading spines at the top, probably indehiscent. 
Seed solitary, curved, subterete, without a tuft of hairs at either 
end. 
A procumbent herb; leaves palmately divided; flowers small, in small 
pedunculate umbels lateral at the nodes, 
Distris, Species 1, endemic. 
This very remarkable Asclepiad, by its palmately lobed leaves, 1-ovuled carpels, 
3-horned and 1-seeded follicles, and the curved seed without hairs, is quite 
unique in the Order. In the structure of its corona it is closely allied to Lustegia. 
K. Schumann and Schlechter describe and figure the carpels as having 2 ovules in 
each, but I have only been able to find one. 
1. E. fissifolius (K. Schum. and Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxix. 
Beibl. 66, 21, 22, with fig.); plant branching at the base ; stems 
prostrate, 2-4 ft. long, rather slender, unifariously puberulous ; 
leaves petiolate, palmately 5—7-lobed, cuneately narrowed into the 
4-4 in. long petiole, glabrous, with the exception of a few minute 
hairs on the midrib beneath and sometimes about the basal part ; 
middle lobe }-1} in. long, linear, acute ; lateral lobes very much 
shorter, linear or attenuate from the base to an acute point, all 
spreading and the upper pair falcately incurved ; umbels lateral at 
the nodes and terminal, pedunculate, 5-8-flowered ; peduncle 5-10 
lin. long, unifariously puberulous ; bracts minute ; pedicels 14—2 lin. 
long, unifariously puberulous ; Sepals } lin. long, lanceolate or ovate- 
oblong, obtuse (not acuminate as originally described), glabrous ; 
corolla-lobes widely spreading, 1-1} lin. long, } lin. broad ; oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely pointed, glabrous on both sides ; outer 
corona-segments erect, the 5 alternating with the corolla-lobes 3 lin. 
long, linear or subspathulate, obtuse; the 5 opposite the corolla- 
lobes } lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, with the infolded side 
lobes standing in front of them 2 lin. long, linear, obtuse ; inner 
corona-lobes erect, }—1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse or notched at the 
apex ; staminal column 2 lin. long; style produced into a beak $—} 
lin. beyond the erect anther-tips ; follicles usually solitary, 3-43 
lin. long, obtriangular, with 3 spreading spines at the subtruncate 
top, glabrous. Lobostephanus palmatus, N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Fi. 
XXxvii. ¢. 2692. 
Eastern Region : Delagoa Bay, Junod, 502! near Lourenco Marques, Schlechter, 
11535 ! 
XXVII. TYLOPHORA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla lobed very deeply or nearly to the base, 
rotate or campanulate-rotate ; lobes overlapping and sometimes 
twisted in bud. Corona usually of 5 tubercles adnate to or radiating 
from the staminal column at or above its base and usually not 
exceeding the filament part of it, rarely with free tips or of entirely 
free flat lobes and attaining to the level of the anther-tips. Staminal 
