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antlieris anguste oblongis, margiuibus cartilagineis subfalcatis 

 angustis, loculos vix excedentibus, appendice hyalino rotundato 

 apice in stigma iucurvo, margiuibus loculorum ad medium usque 

 excisis; polliniis oblique rhomboiileo-lanceolatis obtusis valde com- 

 pressis, caudiculis brevibus divaricatis, glaudul^e minutse anguste 

 ovoideas basi dilatata dimidio inferiore affixis. 



East side of Albert Edward Nyanza, on dry grassy hills, Aug., 

 No. 8088 ; dry plateaux, Buddu, Febr., No. 7443. 



An ally of the South African A. Drei/eana Schltr. {Gom pilocarpus 

 manjinatm E. Mey.), from which the corona at once distinguishes 

 it. The very remarkable dark ochre-red indumentum occurs in the 

 genus only in these two allied species, but is also found in some few 

 other genera, amongst which Dreyea E. Mey. may be mentioned as 

 the best known. 



WooDiA Schltr. 



Woodia trilobata Schltr., n. sp. Herba simplex, erecta, 

 valida ; caule stricto, subtereti, satis dense foliato; foliis patenti- 

 bus vel erecto-patentibus ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, margine plus 

 minus undulatis, utrinque scabris subtus costa villosis, basi sub- 

 cordatis, breviter petiolatis, 7-12 cm. longis, supra basin 2-5-5 cm. 

 latis ; umbellis erecto-patentibus extra-axillaribus alternantibus, 

 phirifloris, quam folia brevioribus ; pedunculo tereti erecto villoso, 

 pedicellis filiformibus pilosis, quam pedunculus brevioribus ; calycis 

 segmentis lanceolatis acutis villosis, corollam paulo superantibus, 

 0*8 cm. longis, erecto-patentibus ; corolla subcampanulata, lobis 

 oblongis obtusis intus glabris, extus dimidio superiore sparsim 

 pilosis; coronte foliolis carnosis, quam gynostegium plus quam duple 

 brevioribus trilobulatis, lobulis suborbicularibus obtusis, subasqui- 

 magnis, intermedio erecto, lateralibus divaricatis ; antlieris oblongis, 

 margiuibus cartilagineis semirhombeis, loculis subnsquilongis, ap- 

 pendice hyalino ovato-lauceolato, apice breviter excise, marginibus 

 loculorum usque ad medium excisis ; polliniis compressis oblongis, 

 more generis verruculosis, caudiculis basi valde dilatata glandulam 

 oblongo-ovoideam amplecteutibus. 



Wet places, Nandi (Nile), 7000-8000 ft., Dec, No. 6877. 



The third species of the genus. It differs from both the otl ers 

 by the habit and the corona-scales ; in the latter the three parjs 

 are rounded, whereas in Woodia trifurcata Schltr. and W. verru- 

 culosa Schltr. they are acute or subacute, and lanceolate. As in 

 both South African species, the calyx is here also longer than the 

 corolla, the pollinia are verruculose, and the glandula is embraced 

 by the subhyaline widened base of the caudiculae. The plant 

 has more the habit of some species of Asclepias of the section 

 Xysmalohium, as, for instance, A. Stockenstromensis (Scott Elliot) 

 Schltr., but the floral characters are those of Woodia. 



Cynanchum L. f. 



Cynanchum altiscandens K. Sch. in Engl. FL Ost-Afr. (1895), 324. 



Dry hills, Karagwe, 4000-5000 ft., Aug., No. 8168; Usoga, 

 common climber, Jan., No. 7227. 



Cynanchum mossambicense K. Sch. ? in Engl. Flor. Ost-Afr. 

 (1895), 324. 



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