Chlorocodon.] lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 255 



broadly obcordate or obreniform, with or without an erect or incurved 

 dorsal process. Stamens arising from the base of the corolla ; filaments 

 very short and broad ; anthers large, triangular, adhering to the style, 

 connivent in a cone, connate at the tips. Pollen granular. Style not 

 exceeding the anthers, conical at the apex. — Large climbers with opposite 

 cordate leaves, well developed frill-like stipules, and axillary panicles of 

 moderate sized flowers. 



Species 2, one found also in Natal. 



Allied to Tacazzia, but differing in the broad basal part of the coronal-lobes, 

 and in the large frill-like stipules, which (with the exception of T. stipularis, 

 X. E, Br.), are absent in Tacazzia. 



Coronal-lobes with a linear dorsal process . . . 1. C. Whiteii. 



Coronal-lobes witliout a doi'sal process . . . 2. C. ecornutus. 



1. C. Whiteii, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5898. Stem climbing, 

 minutely pubescent. Leaves distant, spreading ; petiole IJ-^J in. Ion*' ; 

 blade 4-7 in. long, 3-5 in. broad ; cordate-ovate or cordate-elliptic, 

 cuspidate, glabrous or minutely subscabrous-pubescent on both sides, oi- 

 softly pubescent beneath. Stipules forming a reflexed toothed frill, 

 connecting the petioles. Flowers in axillary pedunculate paniculate 

 cymes 2h-(^ in. long, minutely puberulous on the branches and pedicels ; 

 bracts 2-3 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate ; pedicels 

 (5-9 lin. long. Sepals 2-2h lin. long, l-lh Hn. broad, ovate, acute, 

 glabrous or puberulous. Corolla subrotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base ; 

 lobes 5-G lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtuse, glabrous, very 

 minutely ciliate along one margin, purple, with the margins and a short 

 central stripe at the base green. Coronal-lobes very broadly obcordate, 

 fleshy, white, 1 lin. long, lf-2 lin. broad, having a widely spreading, 

 subulate, linear or linear-lanceolate, purple dorsal process 2-2\ lin. 

 long, acute or bifid at the apex. Follicles 3-4 in. long, H-1 J in. thick, 

 ovoid-lanceolate, obtuse, widely divergent. — Engl, tfc Prantl, Pflanzen- 

 fam. iv. 215 k 217, fig. 64, 0-Q ; Gard. Chron. 1895, xviii. 234 cfe 243, 

 fig. 48, erroneous as to the corona; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 080 ; Wood & Evans, Natal PI. i. 27, t. 31. Periploca lati/olia, K. 

 Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost.-Afr. C. 321, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 232. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker, 589 ! 1397 ! 



Xtower Guinea. Angola : Bumbo ; in rocky places near the River Br'ico, 

 Wehoifsch, 4221 ! Pungo Andongo ; Barrancosde Songue, Welicitsch, 4220 ! along 

 streams throughout the Pra3sidium, Wehoifsch, 4218! in forests, Welwitsch, 4219! 

 Golungo Alto; mountains of Queta, Welv)itsch, 4211 ! 6013 ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa: Karagwe; Bukoba, Sltthlmann, 1619. 

 British Central Africa: Xyasaland ; Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 168! 



Also in Natal, where it is called by the natives "Mundi" or *' Umundi," the 

 root being used as a touic. According to Buchanan the seeds ai'c " said to be used 

 as an arrow poison." 



The flowers are represented in the Botanical Magazine as being p;ile greenish 

 with a purple blotch at the base of the lobes, but in the dried flowers of the typo 

 specimen and in all the living flowers I have seen, the colour is as described above. 

 Messrs. Wood & Evans, however, describe a form with " dull greenish-white flowers." 



