Tacazzea.] lxxxv. asclepiade.b (brown). i>(;;j 



Cymes subsessile, very lax, 3-6-flowered ; pedicels U-S^ in. long, 

 slender, glabrous, with one or two pairs of bracts towards the ba.se ; 

 bracts ^^ lin. long, very broadly ovate, acute, with a few hairs on the 

 back. Sepals | lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, minutely ciliate, and with 

 a few minute hairs on the back. Corolla lobed nearly to the base ; 

 lobes ;^ lin. long, oblong, obtuse, with a short subrectangular fleshy 

 boss at their base. Coronal-lobes longer than the corolla-lobes, fili- 

 form, erect, tortuous. Lobules alternating with the stamens about as 

 long as the filaments and reaching to the gland of the pollen-carrior, 

 quadrate, truncate. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfum, iv. ii! 

 216; Durand tt Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 11)2. 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Moubuttu; Munza, SchweinfuHh, 34^3' 

 3488 ! 



Var. j3 occidentalism N. E. Er. Stein terete or scarcely an<?ular, f,'ieyi.sli. 

 Leaves 2\-Z\ in. long, 1-1^ in. broad, broader in proportion to ilieir length tlian in 

 the type; veins more conspicuous, more reticulate, primary ones more distant ; iiitra- 

 marginal vein %-\\ lin. distant from the margin. Flowers as in the type, white. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : Eglessa, Milieu, 130 of 1893 collection ! 



4. T. rosmarinifolia, X. E. Br. Stem erect, terete, somewhat 

 woody, very minutely puberulous, with a brown bark ; internode.s J -1 

 in. long. Leaves in whorls of 3, spreading (or alternate and ascend- 

 ing) ; petiole 2-2 J lin. long ; blade ^^-'I'i (3-4|) in. long, U-2 (U-4) 

 lin. broad, linear, very acute and pungent-mucronate at the apex, 

 cuneate or slightly rounded at the base, glabrous, with minute fleshy 

 acute processes scattered along the midrib above, minutely white- 

 tomentose beneath, reticulately veined on both sides, narrowly 

 revolute along the margins. Cymes axillary, usually from 2 axils of each 

 whorl, ascending, puberulous, trichotomously branched, 11-15 flowered ; 

 peduncle \-l in. long, slender; branches 3-5 lin. long; bracts }>,-\ 

 lin. long, lanceolate, acute ; pedicels 2-4 lin. long. Sepals J-1 lin. long, 

 ^-J lin. broad, ovate, acute, puberulous. Corolla lobed to h lin. above 

 its base, quite glabrous ; lobes 2 lin. long, J lin. broad, oblong, sub- 

 obtuse. Coronal-lobes about J lin. long, stoutly subulate, acute or 

 obtuse, very thick and fleshy, incurved, inserted with the stamens at 

 the middle of the very short corolla-tube, but adnate up to the sinuses 

 of the latter; at their base are 2 small obtuse lobules embracing tiie 

 staminal filaments. Staminal-column about '^ lin. long ; anthers 

 connivent over the apex of the style, connate at their tips, glabroas. - 

 ^Echmolepis rosmarini folia, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 493; K. Shum. 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 220. 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Amboella ; at the Nambali (Kubango) Hiver. 4<.)00 

 ft., Batim, 245 ! and without precise locality, Newton I Angola, without indication of 

 the collector, in Herb. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris f 



The above description, with the exception of the few words and figures in 

 brackets, is made from the type specimen of Mchmolepis rosmarinifolia, Decnc, 

 kindly lent by the Director of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The few 

 words and figures in brackets are added from Baum's specimen, which only differs in 

 having alternate and rather larger leaves, a similar diflFerence occurs in T. WelicUschiit 



