Tacazzea.] lxxxv. asclepiade.e (brown). 267 



velvety and minutely tuberculate ; bracts J-IJ lin. long, lanceolate, 

 acute, puberulous ; pedicels 2-4 lin. long, minutely tomentose. 

 Sepals 1 lin. long, | lin. broad, broadly ovate, acute, minutely tomen- 

 tose and ciliolate. Corolla rotate, lobed nearly to the l)ase ; lobes 

 2-'2h lin. long, lJ-1^ Hn. broad, oblong, obli<iuely bilobulate at the 

 apex, glabrous, minutely papillose on the inner face. Coronal-lobej^ 

 '2h-o lin. long, ^ lin. broad at the base, stout, lanceolate-linear tapering 

 to a filiform tortuous apex ; alternating lobules subquadrate, emar- 

 ginate, infiexed. 



Wile Iiand. Uganda : Ruwenzori district ; Kivata, in forest, 6000-8000 ft., 

 Scoif -Elliot, 7(388 ! 



XMEozamb. Slst. German East Africa: Usafua; on the Xirosi or l*or.)to 

 Mountains, 7200 ft., Goetze, 1289! 



Allied to T, apiculata, Oliv., but witli larger leaves, well marked stipules, a 

 different pubescence, and much stouter and sbortor coronal-lobes. 



13. T, apiculata, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. los, t. 7-. 

 •Stem twining, more or less pubescent or tomentose. Leaves spreading ; 

 petiole J-1 J in. long ; blade 2-5 in. long, l-:>^- in. broad, oblong or 

 elliptic-oblong, obtuse, broadly rounded or emarginate and shortl}' 

 cuspidate-apiculate at the apex, emarginate or cordate at the l)ase, 

 glabrous above, whitish and densely puberulous or veiy minutely tomen- 

 tose beneath. Panicles '2\-^) in. long, more or less pubescent on the 

 lower part of the peduncle, elsewhere glabrous ; bracts ^-1 lin. long, 

 ovate, obtuse, glabrous ; pedicels 3-1) lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 

 ■| lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, brick-red, glabrous. Corolla lobed 

 nearly to the base ; lobes 3 lin long, oblong, obtuse, red, glabrous. 

 Coronal-lobes b lin. long, filiform, erect, tortuous in the upper part, 

 adnate at the base to the lower half of the filaments, which are 

 united with the alternating shortly bifid lobules into a short tube. 

 Follicles 2^-3 in. long, T) lin. thick at the base, tapering gradually to a 

 point, glabrous, horizontally diverging, not retiexed. K. Schum. in 

 Engl, (k Prantl, Pflanzenfam- iv. ii. 217, fig. G-1, L ; in. Engl. PH. 

 Ost.-Afr. C. 320; in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 454 ; and in Ann. Istit. Bot. 

 Roma, vii. 3G. T. apiculata, Oliv. var. glabra, K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xvii. 110 in a note, and in Engl, t Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. ii. 

 210. 



wile Iiand. Somaliland : near the River Genom, Biva, 1093 (ex Schumann). 

 White Nile: near Gondokor.), Speke 4' Grant J at Kaiia, Sc/itctiofurf/i, 9G1 ! nnU 

 at Fashoda, Schweiufnrth, 1070! Blue Nile, Muriel, L, 17! Jnr: Jur (iliuttas. 

 Schweinfurth, 1958! Boii^'o : Ngoli (X.yoli), Schweinfurth, 4075! I'^randa : 

 Madi ; on tlie banks of the Madi Stream, Speke tj' Grant, 711 ! 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Ukami ; in L^outh Ulu«;uru, 3CKX) ft., 

 Goetze, 223 (ex K. Schumann). 



Var. /3, benedict a, Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 91. Leaves varyin- 

 from oblong-lanceolate or ovate and acute or acuniiuate, to elliptic-oldong and very 

 obtusely rounded and shortly mucromite at the apex, rounded or cordate nt the base, 

 srlabrous above, wbitisb-tomentose beneath with much longer hairs than in the tvpe. 

 Panicle rather more compact than in the type. Calyx sometimes with soujc minute 

 hairs on the basal part. 



