'2^)C) Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE.?^: (brown). [Chlorococlou. 



Ill the Gardenor^s Chronicle the dorsal processes of the coroual-lohes are inaccurately 

 re]n"eseiite(i as bein^ incumbent on the backs of the antliers, instead of spreadinsr, 

 uliirh is their natural ])ositiun in the open flower. 



2. C. ecornutus, N. E. ]h\ {ecornuta by error) in Kev Bulletin, 

 1805, 111. Stem, leaves, stipules, and inflorescence as in C. Whiteii, 

 but more glabrous. Sepals 1 lin. long and broad, orbicular or elliptic, 

 very obtusely rounded, glabrous. Corolla 0-10 lin. in diam., glabrous ; 

 lobes 4 lin. long, 2J lin. broad, oblong, obtuse. Coronal-lobes about .V 

 the length of the anthers, fleshy, transverse and subbilobed or broadly 

 obcordate, no dorsal process. — K. Schum. in Engl. <k Prantl, Pfianzen- 

 fam. iv. ii. 215, & in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 425. 



Xrile Iiand. British East Africa : Ribe, near IMonibasa, Wakefield ! 



The corolla is rather smaller and dries a darker colour than that of C. Whiteii. 



0. OMPHALOGONUS, Baillon in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 

 1881), ii. 812. 



Sepals imbricate. Corolla rotate, ovoid in bud ; lobes overlapping to 

 the left, at length spreading. Corona double, spreading, with the 

 radiating lobes adnate to the corolla within ; outer lobes obtusely tri- 

 gonous, obtuse ; inner lobes obovate-oblong, boat-shaped, concave in 

 the middle, obcordate at the apex. Stamens 5, affixed to the bottom 

 of the corolla ; filaments slender, free ; anthers apiculate, setose. 

 Pollen granular. Pollen-carrier obovate. — A glabrous twiner. Leaves 

 opposite, large, cordate, acuminate, richly penninerved. Cymes lateral 

 from one axil, about equalling the petiole, pedunculate, loosely dicho- 

 tomous. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 221. 

 Omphakigonus, Baill., Hist. des. PI. x. ;)00. 



Species 1, endemic, unknown to me, but appears to be allied to Chlorocodon. 



1. O. calophyllus, Baillon in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. 812, 

 and Hist. PI. x. ;:>00, name only, no description beyond the above. 

 XdKozamb. 3>ista Zanzibar, ex Baillon. 



7. PERIPLOCA, L. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 740. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes 

 overlapping and slightly twisted to the left in bud. Corona of 5, 

 filiform or linear lobes, arising Jrom the corolla at or a little above 

 the insertion of the stamens and opposite to them, simple or divided, 

 with or without a more or less broadly dilated base, which is often 

 more or less spreading on and adnate to the base of the corolla-lobes, 

 and usually two-keeled within. Stamens arising from the corolla a little 

 above its base ; filaments free, short ; anthers adnate to the style at 

 their base, hairy on the back or at the base, with the connective 

 produced into an apiculus, by which they are usually connate at 

 their tips. Pollen granular. Style shorter than the anthers, convex 



