272 Lxxxv. AscLEPiADE/E (brown). [Raphtonaciue. 



corymbose, 3 ^,-2 in. in diam,, many- flowered ; pedicels 2-() lin. 

 long; bracts subulate, 1-U lin. long. Sepals 3J-2 lin. long, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate. Corolla-tube campanulate, 2 lin. long; lobes 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4 lin. long, with two short sub- 

 parallel fleshy ridges upon their base, violet-purple. Coronal-lobes 

 arising at the mouth of the corolla-tube, 2}j lin, long, subulate, erect, 

 scarcely exceeding the anthers. Stamens with broad linear fllaments 

 ^^J in. long, and narrow linear-oblong anthers of about the same length, 

 connate at their tips. Young follicles tomentose. — Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. G7H. Rciphiacme anyolensis, K, Schum. in Engl, ct 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. li. 220. Zucchellia anyolensis, Decne. in DC. 

 Prod. viii. 492. Zaczatea angolensis, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 

 ii. (1889) HOC) (80 by error) ; and Hist. PI. x. 2!j.") ; K. Schum. in Engl. 

 ^ Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 221. 



Itower Guinea. Angola: Piiiigo Aiuloiigo; on the liiglier rocks of tin- 

 Pr;L'sidium, Welwilsch, 4201 ! 4202 ! 



G. R. jurensis, X. E. Br. Plant 1-1 -J ft. (or more?) high. 

 Stem minutely puberulous, brown. Leaves not seen fully developed, 

 those on the flowering part of the stem reduced to linear rudiments, 

 1-] \ lin. long, densely puberulous. Flowers from the axils of the upper 

 part of the plant or axillary and terminal, solitary or in pairs or on 

 2-:)-flowered puberulous peduncles, which are really the branches of a 

 sessile cyme. Bracts minute, \ l^'^- ^^"o5 ovate or lanceolate, brown, 

 puberulous. Pedicels o-5 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals -| lin. long, 

 r-;",- lin. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, puberulous. Corolla 

 thinly puberulous outside, glabrous within, grey-violet (Broun) ; tube 

 2 lin, long, campanulate ; lobes 3J-4 lin, long, IJ lin, broad, oblong, 

 subobtuse, very spreading or probably reflexed. Coronal-lobes inserted 

 with the stamens at the sinuses of the corolla, shortly adnate to 

 the base of the filaments, filiform, 3|-4 lin. long, erect, tortuous at the 

 tips, without lateral teeth at their base, but alternating with them at 

 the middle of the base of the corolla-lobes are 5 small fleshy tubercles, 

 Stamens much exserted, | as long as the coronal-lobes ; filaments 1 J lin. 

 long, broadly dilated at the base and rather broad in the upper part 

 where attached to the dilated part of the style ; anthers 1 lin. long, 

 deltoid- oblong, obtuse, connivent in a cone over the apex of the style, 

 glabrous. Poll en- carriers Ij lin. long, spathulate, with the claw part 

 tubular, open down the outer side, and the apical part expanded into a 

 flat elliptic obtuse entire blade. Style much exserted from the corolla- 

 tube, slightly shorter than the anthers, slender in the lower part, 

 abruptly dilated in the upper part into a narrow cone 1 J lin. long. 



irile Iianda British East Africa : Jur ; between Jur and Wau Rivers, Broun ! 



7. R. excisa, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 301. A dwarf erect 

 herb G-8 in. high, corymbosely branched ; branches puberulous. 

 Leaves few and distant, spreading or ascending, IJ-IJ in. long, 



