278 j.xxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (].iio\\n). \^,St a nioue. 



Leaves long-pointed, pedicels 2-3 i 



lin. long .... 19. S. Kirkii, 

 Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, 



, sube^riaceous , . . . 9. <S. iisambanca. 



IJiMnches of tlie cyme widely spreading. 

 ►Stvle divided nearly to the middle of 

 the ajiical part into 2 subulate 

 acute lobes . . . . 8. S. leonense. 



Style distinctly thickened or dilated 

 at the top of the apical part. 

 ]iranches of the cyme distinctly 

 pubescent. 

 Leaves li-2^ in. long; cymes 



1-14^ in. in diani. . . 5. S. ])latystigma. 



Leaves ^-1^ in. long ; cymes 



^—\ in. in diani. . . 7. S. micrandra. 



liranches of the cyme glabrous . 10. S. sansiharieiusis. 



1. S. gracilis, X. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 189."), 248. A slender 

 .scrambling or climbing shrub, quite glabrous in all parts. Bianchlets 

 much ilivided, very slender. Leaves shortly petiolate, 4-8 lin. long, 

 2—4 lin. bioad, oblong, obtuse, rounded or subcuueate at the base, 

 membranous. Flowers few ; peduncle 1 lin. long or less, 1- or rarely 

 2-flowered ; pedicels o lin, long, very slender. Sepals less than i lin. 

 long, ovate or oblong, obtuse or subacute. Corolla 2 lin. long, white or 

 yellowish, campanulate, r)-lobed to rather more than half way down, 

 thin and membranous, with a membranous flap forming a pocket at the 

 base of each sinus between the oblong obtuse lobes and a slender ridge 

 running fiom the base of the pocket to the bottom of the corolla-tube. 

 Coronal-lobes nearly or quite as long as the staminal-column, falcate, 

 erect. Style protruded much beyond the anthers ; apical part broadly 

 obconic, subtruncately bilobed. 



XTile Iiand. British East Africa : Mombasa, Wakefield ! 



2. S. erythradenia, K. ScJmm. in Evgl Jahrh. xvii. 141. A 

 climbing shrub, clothed with a minute rust-coloured pube^icence on the 

 young shoots, petioles, midribs and inflorescence. Leaves shortly 

 petiolate, ^-1 in. long, 2^-0 lin. bread, ovate or lanceolate, acute, 

 rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides except the midrib, yellowish- 

 green beneath. Cymes laxly 2-r)-flowered ; peduncles 1-1 J lin. long; 

 pedicels 2-:) lin. long, bracteate at the base ; bracts ^-1 lin. long, 

 lanceolate, acute. Sepals 1 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Corolla 

 white; tube ^\ lin. long, campanulate; lobes spreading, 1^ lin. long, 

 oblong, obtuse. Coronal-lobes exceeding the stamens, falcately incurved 

 over the anthers. Style protruded much beyond the anthers; apical 

 part ovoid-clavate, shortly bifid. Follicles immature in the specimens 

 seen, 2^ in. long, 2 lin. thick at the base, attenuate-terete, smooth, 

 slightly reflexed. — Engl, t PrantI, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii.- 202, fig. 76, 

 F— J, and 20:]; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. CSl. 



Ziower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in wooded jjarls or ]Morro do L()i)oll(), 

 Welarif.u-h, 5941 ! 



