Oryptolepis LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADE. 677 
Yproce? 
There is in the study set a unique follicle, probably young, which 
is narrow, hooked at the tip, 1 in. long, and sparingly lepidote- 
puberulous. 
— 3. C. Welwitschii Schlechter in Journ, Bot. xxxiii. p. 301 (1895). 
Ectadiopsis Welwitschit Baill. l.c., p. 82 (802); K. Schum. in 
Engl. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 219 (1895). 
Huiitia.—aA shrublet, 15 to 24 ft. high, with white flowers. In 
thickets amongst short grass ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 4203. 
Var. luteola. 
A subsarmentose shrublet, } to 1} ft. high, with yellowish flowers. 
Hviiia.—In thickets near Huilla; fl. 14 Nov, 1859. No. 4205. 
4. C. angolensis Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 
A decumbent-sarmentose or rarely twining shrub, 2 to 4 ft. 
high, lactescent ; rootstock woody ; young radical shoots erect or 
ascending, virgate, orange-purplish or sub-cinereous, muriculate- 
puberulous, rather slender, leafy; leaves opposite, narrowly 
elliptical, narrowed towards both ends, subsessile, pointed at the 
apex, softly and thinly subcoriaceous, glaucescent at least beneath, 
pulverulent-puberulous along the veins and margin or subglabrous, 
entire on the narrowly revolute margin, | to 2 by 3 to 4 in. broad 
or rather more; lateral veins rather conspicuous, slender, arching 
and anastomosing near the margin, reticulate ; nodes tumid ; cymes 
dense, many-flowered, sessile or subsessile, in one axil each of the 
terminal and upper pairs of leaves; bracteoles small, rounded, 
ciliolate ; flowers about {4 in. long, subsessile or on short rather 
thick pedicels, very agreeably fragrant like jessamine, blunt in 
the bud; calyx 54, in. long, deeply 5-lobed; the segments oval, 
rounded at the apex, membranous on the margin, minutely 
pulverulent-puberulous, ciliolate, imbricate in estivation; the 
short tube with 5 shorter trifid glands at the top inside alternating 
with the segments ; corolla } in. long, white, not quite glabrous 
outside ; the tube short ; the lobes oval, thin along the margin ; 
corona-scales subulate, filiform, arising from near the top of the 
corolla-tube, scarcely as long as its lobes; stamens glabrous, 
inserted below the corona-scales on the corolla-tube, distinct ; 
filaments compressed, rather shorter than the deltoid subulate- 
tipped anthers. 
Huiiia.—In sandy thickets near Lopollo ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4204. 
According to Welwitsch’s ms. the plant is also met with near Pungo 
Andongo. A plant, collected by Schweinfurth, 10 July 1870, No. 4050, 
in Bongo-land, with narrowly lanceolate conical follicles 3 to 3: in. 
long and said to be a shrub of 2 to 4 ft. with yellow flowers, perhaps 
belongs to this species. 
™ 5. C. myrtifolia. 
Ectadiopsis myrtifolia Baill., U.c., p. 83 (803). 
HuILia.—A low, sarmentose, twining shrub, or occasionally standing 
erect, lactescent, with white flowers. In thickets near Lopollo, 
plentiful; fl. No. 4206. 
