Raphionacme.] lxxxv. AscLEPiADEiE (brown). 271 



o. R. splendens, Schlechter in Joiirn. Bot. 1H95, 301. Stem 

 erect, simple, G-8 in. high, minutely puberulous# Leaves distant, the 

 two or three lower pairs reduced to mere rudiments or scales, the upper 

 broken off in the specimens seen, their short remains (petioles?) linear 

 subterete, velvety. Flowers few (3-4 on the specimens seen), larf,'e[ 

 arranged in a lax terminal cyme, erect ; pedicels about 1 in. long| 

 puberulous. Sepals 1-1 i lin. long, J lin. broad, ovate, acuminate! 

 puberulous, minutely ciliate. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base ; tube 

 exceedingly short, j-1 lin. long; lobes 0-lOj lin. long, 3-:5i lin. 

 broad, oblong, obtuse, reflexed, puberulous outside, glabrous within 

 bright rosy-purple with whitish margins. Coronal-lobes arising from 

 the base of the staminal filaments, 1 in. long, erect, filiform, very 

 shortly and broadly dilated at the base, simple or bifid at the apex, 

 glabrous. Filaments of the stamens 2^ lin. long, abruptly dilated at 

 the base, where they are transversely oblong, thick, fleshy, and com- 

 plicately 2-keeled on the inner side, glabrous; anthers 3 lin. Ion*' 

 linear, glabrous, connivent over the tapering angular apex of the 

 style, and connate at their tips. Pollen -carriers with a deeply biiid 

 lanceolate blade. 



East Tropical Africa. Without locality, Scott-Elliot ! 



This species is remarkable for its very few leaves, and large flowers. There are 

 no lateral lobules to the coronal-lobes as described by Schlechter, who has evidently 

 mistaken the base of the staminal filaments for coronal-lobes, the latter are quite 

 simple, or occasionally bifid at the apex. 



4. R. globosa, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 118. Stem erect, 

 simple, puberulous, leafy nearly to the apex. Leaves distant, 

 2J-5J in. long, J-J in. broad, on petioles 1-2 lin. long, elongate- 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, minutely pubescent and slightly rou^h 

 to the touch. Flowers in terminal globose heads | in. in diam., 

 on peduncles J-lJ in. long; bracts 1-2^ lin. long, subulate or 

 filiform; pedicels l-lj lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 2-2J lin. long, 

 subulate from an ovate base, puberulous, ciliate. Corolla-tube 

 2-2\ lin. long, campanulate, with 5 small pockets within at the base, 

 lobes '2h lin. long, spreading, very minutely puberulous outside, white. 

 Coronal-lobes arising at the mouth of the corolla-tube, divided into 

 three filiform segments, the middle one 2 lin. long, the lateral about 

 1 lin. long. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. G79. Raphiacnie 

 ylohosa, K. Schum. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 221. 



Xjower Guinea. Angola: Malange, ilfec^ow, 327 ! Huilla ; in thickets near 

 Lopollo, Wehritsch, 4178 : 



5. R. angolensis, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 248. Stems 

 1-2 ft. high, branching or simple, erect, or decumbent in the lower part, 

 purplish, pubescent with short curved hairs, as are also both sides of 

 the leaves, peduncles, pedicels, bracts, calyx and outside of the corolla. 

 Leaves 1-2 J in. long, ^-Ij in. broad, on petioles 2-7 lin. long, elliptic 

 or elliptic-oblong, about equally obtuse at both ends, or sometimes sub- 

 acute at the base, "somewhat fleshy" [Wdwitsch). Cymes terminal, 



