248 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (browx). [Cryptolepis. 



Very closely allied to C. Brazzcei, Baill., but differinpf in liaviiig less congested 

 cymes, wliich in outline are wedge-shaped or ohc^iiical and not snbglohose, the 

 riower-buds are more pointed, more twisted, and the corolla-lobes are longer and not 

 eiliate. The texture and colour of the flower in the dried stite are also quite 

 different, that of C. Brazzcei being darker in colour and more fleshy than iu 

 C. Bmimii. 



10. C. Brazzaei, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1889, ii. 803 

 (8o by error). Stem twining, rather slender, smooth. Leaves spreading, 

 glabrous; petiole l-^i lin. long; blade IJ-^^ in. long, \~1 in. broad, 

 varying from elliptic-oblong to elliptic, acute, obtusely rounded at the 

 base, more or less distinctly o -nerved. Cymes axillary, subsessile, 

 small, dense, subglobose, many-flowered, glabrous ; bracts h lin. long, 

 ovate, acute ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals |-J lin. long, 

 ovate, obtuse, minutely eiliate. Corolla very obtuse in bud, pube- 

 scent in the throat of the tube and on the base of the lobes within, 

 glabrous outside, white; tube 1 lin. long, campanulate; lobes 1 lin. 

 long, r'-J lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, sparsely and very minutely ciliafe ; 

 margin of the sinus-pockets eiliate. Coronal-lobes arising from the 

 middle of the corolla-tube, h lin. long, fleshy, subulate, obtuse or acute, 

 incurved like fish-hooks, sparsely hairy. Anthers acuminate connivetit. 

 — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. (uX. C. Brazzai, Henriques in Bolet. 

 Soc. Brot. xvi. 07. C. Sizenandi, Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xi. 86, 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: ]\ralange, ^larques, 15! 63 (ex Henriques)', 

 Pungo Andongo; jdentiful in the thickets of the Pnesidium, Welwitsch, 41971 

 Huilla ; at Monino, Welwitsch, 4207! banks of the Kiver Lovo, Marques, 217 (ex 

 Henriques). 



The hairs inside the corolla of this jmel the allied si)ecies can scarcely be seen if 

 the corolla is examined in a wet state. 



1 I. C. "Welwitschii, Iliem in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 677, not of 

 Schlechter. A small shrub, erect, scrambling or decumbent ; branches 

 more or less flexuose, minutely scaberulous, reddish. Leaves spreading, 

 glabrous; petiole J-1 lin. long ; blade |-2 in. long, lJ-10 lin. broad, 

 varying from linear or linear-lanceolate to elliptic, acute, rounded or sub- 

 acute at the base, more or less distinctly o-nerved. Cymes axillary, 

 subsessile, small, densely many- (rarely less than 20-) flowered, minutely 

 bracteate ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Sepals J lin. long, ovate, obtuse, 

 minutely eiliate. Corolla glabrous on both sides, white ; tube 1 lin. 

 long, campanulate ; lobes 1;^ lin. long, J-1 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, 

 not eiliate ; sinus-pockets truncate, entire or denticulate, not eiliate. 

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

 fleshy, subclavate. obtuse or subacute. Anthers acuminate, connivent 

 in a cone. — C. myrtifolia, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 301, name 

 only; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw., i. 677. Ectadiojysis Wehcitschii, 

 Baill. (not of Britten). E. lanceolata, Baill. and P. onyrtifolia, Baill. 

 in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1889, ii. 802-803 (82-83 by error) ; K. 

 Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 219. 



ZiO^xrer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; near Huilla, in thickets amongst short 

 grass, Weitoitsch, 4:20^ \ in 'thickets near Lopollo, WeUvitsch, 4:20Q\ 



