246 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). [CryptoUpis, 



inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube, \ lin. long, rather stout, 

 Jieshy, terete-subulate, erect. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 676. 



Xiower Guinea. Lower Congo ? Kimuen/a, Gillet-! Angola: GolungoAlto; 

 Alto Quota, in shady forests, Welwitsch, 5939 ! Quota Mountains, WelwitscJi, 

 6940! 



6. C. obtnsa, i\^. £J. Br. in Kew Bulletin^ 1895, 110. Stem 

 twining, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, glabrous ; petiole 2-5 lin. long ; 

 blade |-3 in. long, J-lJ in. broad, oblong, obtuse, retuse or emarginate, 

 mucronate, rounded or more or less cuneate at the base. Cymes 1-2 in. 

 long, pedunculate, dichotomous, laxly 6-10-flowered, glabrous iu all 

 parts, axillary, mostly from both axils, and often arranged in elongated 

 leafless narrow panicles 3-12 in. long, at the ends of the lateral shoots ; 

 peduncles ^-1 in. long ; bracts J-1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute ; 

 pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Sepals J lin. long, ovate, subacute. Corolla 

 acuminate, with twisted aestivation in bud ; tube 1 lin. long ; lobes 

 3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate ; sinus-pockets truncate, not cihate. 

 Coronal-lobes arising from the middle of the corolla-tube, J lin. long, 

 fleshy, lanceolate, acuminate. Anthers acuminate, connivent. Follicles 

 3-5 in. long, 2J-3 lin. thick, fusiform-terete, acuminate, smooth, 

 reflexed when ripe. Seeds 3 lin. long, §-1 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, 

 flat, with a central keel on one side, convex on the other, minutely 

 tuberculate, blackish-brown. — K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 424, 

 and in Engl, k, Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii., 219. C. obtusa, K. Schum. 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 320. 



nXozamb. I>lst. German p]ast Africa : east coast of Lake Xjiasa, Johnson, 

 56 ! and without precise locality, Stuhlmann, 7827 (ex K. Schumann), Portugue^o 

 East Africa : Mozambique, Forbes ! J^ower valley of the liiver Shire, Meller ! 

 Jjower Zambesi ; between Tete and the coast. Kirk ! Zambesi Delta ; Luabo River, 

 Kirk, 38! Shupanga, Kirk! British Central Africa : Nyas^-land ; Kondowe to 

 Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! lioruma, on the Zambesi, Menyharth^ 829 ! 



Also at Delagoa Bay. 



I have not seen Stuhlmann's specimen which Dr. Schumann described in 1895 

 as C. ohtusa, but judging from the very imperfect descrijition, 1 believe it to be this 

 plant. 



7. C. Hensii, N. E. Br. Stem twining, rather slender, glabrous, 

 wrinkled in the dried state, but not rough with raised points, dark 

 reddish-brown. Leaves very spreading, glabrous on both sides ; petiole 

 |-1 lin. long; blade 1J-2J in. long, 1J-3J lin. broad, linear, acute, 

 rounded at the base. Cymes sublateral at the nodes 7-8 lin. long 

 including the short peduncle, flat-topped, many-flowered, with ascending 

 branches, compact, glabrous ; bracts J-J lin. long, ovate, acute ; 

 pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Sepals J lin. long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 

 very minutely ciliate. Corolla campanulate, glabrous outside, pubescent 

 at the base of the lobes and in the throat and around the mouth of the 

 tube within, white, shortly pointed in the bud ; tube J lin. long ; lobes 

 1 lin. long, ^ lin. broad, oblong, obtuse and very oblique at the apex 



