2o'2 Lxxxv. ASCLEPIADE.E (brown). [Cryptolepis. 



acute, their sinus-pockets variable, truncate, emarginate or subulate. 

 Coronal-lobes arising about J lin. above the base of the corolla-tube, 

 J lin. long, fleshy. — Ectadlopsis suffritticosc:, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 45;». 



X^ozamb. Sist. (rerinan East Africa: Ulielio ; Iringa, 5000 ft., Goetze, 

 66.-5. 



Uiikiiow u to ine. 



Imperfectly Icnoivn species. 



17. C. laxa, BailL in Bull. Soc. Lin. Paris, 1889, ii. 804 (84 hy 

 error). Twining, glabrous. Leaves small, ovate, acute, white beneath. 

 Cymes pedunculate, lateral, lax and few -flowered. The fruit is formed 

 of two long follicles, slender and glabrous, divergent, fornicate. 



Tropical Africa. Brazza, 126 (ox Bailloti). 

 I have not seen this plant. 



18. C. Barter!, K. Sclmm. in Engl. cO Frantl, Pflanzenfam.iv. ii. 

 ^19. Leaves acute or acuminate, concolorous on both sides. Cymes 

 few-flowered. Pedicles long. 



IVest Tropical Africa, ex K. Sc?nimann. 



I have not seen this, and tlie description is quite inadequate for identification, 

 but, as sugirested on p. 245, it may be tlie same as C. triangularis, X. E. Br. 



19. Ectadiopsis Biittneri, A'. Schum. in Engl, d- Praiitl, Pflan- 

 zenfmn. iv. ii. 219, A twining shrub. Margin of the sinus-pockets of 

 the corolla-lobes ciliate. 



Iio-wer Guinea. Lower Congo ; Leopoldville, near Stanley Pcol (ex K. 

 Schumann). 



1 have not seen a specimen of this plant. 



The description is insufficient for identification and applies equally to at least 

 three species. 



3. STOMATOSTEMMA, N. E. Br. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube broadly campanulate; lobes over- 

 lapping to the left in bud. Corona of 5 fleshy clavate lobes inserted 

 in the sinuses between the corolla-lobes. Stamens inserted near the 

 base of the corolla-tube ; filaments free ; anthers united at their base to 

 the dilated part of the style, connivent in a cone, triangular, with the 

 connective produced into a fleshy apiculus, glabrous. Pollen granular. 

 Pollen-carriers with the margins inrolled so as to nearly form an oblique- 

 mouthed tube, broadly ovate when flattened out, grooved down the back. 

 Style shortly conical at the apex, shorter than the anthers. Follicles 

 and seeds not seen. — A climbing or bushy shrub, with milky juice.. 

 Leaves opposite. Flowers of moderate size, in few-flowered cymes,, 

 axillary form both axils and terminal. 



