Cnjptolejns.] Lxxxv. asclepiade.e (brown). :>45 



4. C. triangularis, X. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 02. A 

 glabrous climber, with blood-red resinous juice. Leaves spreading ; 

 petiole 2-4: lin. long; blade 1-:J in. long, ;,-l^ in. broad, elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, acuminate at the apex, acute or rounded at the base, 

 deep green, not shining above, yellowish-green beneath, with the lateral 

 veins slightly but distinctly prominent. Cymes terminal on short 

 lateral shoots, dichotomus or trichotomus, laxly 3-7-tlowered, with 

 branches ^-1 in. long ; bracts ]l-2 lin. long, ovate, obtuse ; pedicels 

 :>-G lin. long. Sepals 2 Hn. long, I lin. broad, ovate, subobtuse. Corolla- 

 tube campanulate, 2 lin. long; lobes h in. long, lanceolate-linear, 

 auricled on one side w^ithin at the base,"" twisted to the left in bud, 

 yellow ; sinus-pockets truncate, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes inserted at 

 the middle of the corolla-tube, triangular, with nearly equal sides and 

 acute or rounded angles. Anthers' connivent over the conicjil apex of 

 the style. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. (17(1. C. sanyuinolevta, 

 Schlecnter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 308. Peryidaria samjainolenta, 

 Lindl. in Bot. Mag. t. 2bo'2 \ and in Trans. Hort. fSoc. 1H2G, vi. 72; 

 Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. GIO. 



Upper Guinea. Gambia, Leprieur ! Sierra Leono : near Luinbamya. Scoft- 

 Elliof, oUl3 ! and witliont preci>e locality, luUivatoil spec-inieu, Don.' Lafjos : 

 Yoruba; Abeokuta, in rocky places. Barter, 3359! iiiul witliout precise locality, 

 Ron-land .' Xiirer Territory : Xupe, Barter, 1333 ! 



liOiver Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; by thickets in the deep valleys of 

 the rocks of the Praisidiuni, Welwitsch, 5993 ! 



This i)lant was introduced by G. Don into the Royal Horticultural Society's 

 garden at Chiswick, where it tiowered in Aug-tist 3 823, and wis dt smbed by Lindley 

 ns \i Ferqularia. 1 had not made this iilentitication until immediately after my 

 tlescriptiou of it was j^ublished in the Journal of the Linnem Society or I should 

 have adopted Lindle-y's s})ecitic name. The ?ap is described as blood red in colour. 

 Probably C. Barteri, K. Sclium. in Engl. & Prantl, I*Haiizenfain. iv. ii, 219, belong:* 

 here, but the description is very insufficient, ami I have noi seen a specimen. 



5. C. microphylla, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1S80, ii. S()4 

 (H4 bi/ error). A much-branched shrub, with milky juice; stems scram- 

 bling or twining, slender, glabrous, slightly rough on the youngest 

 parts, becoming smooth with age, nodose fi-om the projecting leaf-scars. 

 Leaves with scaberulous petioles 1 lin. long; blade -4-H- in. long, 

 4;V-8i^ lin. broad, oblong-ovate, acute or .shortly acuminate, or the 

 lowermost obtuse and apiculate, rounded at the base, dull green and 

 microscopically scaberulous (densely covered with glandular })oints, 

 Welwitsch) above, glaucous beneath. Cymes terminal or axillary, 

 2-t)- (rarely more-) flowered ; peduncles 4-0 lin. long, slender, gla- 

 brous ; pedicels h-^ in. long, minutely bracteate below the middle, 

 glabrous. Sepals I lin. long and nearly as broad, ovate, subobtuse, sub- 

 glabrous, or very minutely puberulous. Corolla whitish, glabrous ; 

 tube 11- lin. long, <:ampanulate (swollen above the base, Welwitsch); 

 lobes i\-'dl lin. long, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, more or less wrinkled and 

 crisped ; sinus-pockets scarcely evident, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes 



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