284 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^E (brown). [SecamOiie. 



compreysed-quadrate, adnate to and scarcely half as tall as the staminal- 

 column. Style truncate, just exserted beyond the anthers, like a 

 minute cushion. Follicles o in. long and about | in. thick, subterete, 

 acuminate, smooth, glabrous. — Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx., Beibl. 

 51, 12; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfani. iv. ii. 2G2. 



Alozaznb. Dist. Tropical Transvaal; mountains near T>acoma (Jacoma?), 

 3600 ft., Schlechter, 4540. 



Described from South African specimens, I liave seen no Troi)ical example. 



15. S. punctulata, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 502. Stem climbing^ 

 slender, glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, 1-2^^- in. long, 4-10 lin. 

 broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse and apiculate, 

 rounded or sub-cuneate at the base, glabrous on both sides. Cymes smaM, 

 axillary and terminal on short lateral shoots, which often become leaf- 

 less at the flowering nodes, shortly pedunculate, ^-J in. in diam., mode- 

 rately compact, with very short bubumbellate branches ; peduncles 

 1-4 lin. long, nearly glabrous or with a few minute spreading reddish 

 hairs; bracts -h lin. long, ovate, obtuse, minutely ciliate ; pedicels 

 J-1 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals ^ lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse. 

 Corolla 1| lin. in diam., sub-campanulate, 5-lobed to ij the way down, 

 glabrous. Coronal-lobes erect, reaching to the base of the anthers. 

 Style exserted much be}ond tlie anthers; apical part clav^ate-obconic 

 or broadly dilated at the top. — K. Schum. in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. o24. 



nXozamb. I>ist. Pemba Island, Bojer ! German East Africa : Zauquebar, 

 Kirk 1 



Var. /3 stenophylla, N. E. Br. Leaves 1:^-2^ in. lorg, l|-3 lin. broad, linear or 

 linear-oblong', acute, rounded at the base. — ^S". stenophylla, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 325. 



nXozamb. I>lst. German East Afiica : Usanibara; Masheua, Hoist, 3510! 



1 find no distinction besides the form of the leaves between S. stenophylla and 

 S. punctuluta, and the Zanqutbar specimen is intermediate between tlie two. 

 The name punctulata refers to the dots often visible in the leaves ; they are foi-med 

 by crystals of lime. 



16. S. xnombasica, N. E. Br. Stem climbing, with slender 

 straight flowering-branches, glabrous. Leaves spreading, thin : petiole 

 lJ-2 lin. long; blade |-1 Jin. long, 2i-(; lin. broad, lanceolate, more or 

 less acuminate, glabrous on both sides. Cymes axillary, small, ^-4 lin. 

 in diam., umbellately o-G-flowered ; peduncles 1-2 lin. long, glabrous; 

 bracts minute, ovate, obtuse, ciliate ; pedicels 1-1 i lin. long, glabrous. 

 Sepals about J lin. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla 2 lin. 

 in diam., glabrous, white ; tube \ lin. long ; lobes spreading, 1 lin. long, 

 oblong, obtuse. Coronal-lobes compressed, broadly falcate, obtuse, 

 reaching to the middle or | of the height of the staminal-column. Style 

 shortly exserted beyond the anthers ; apical part cylindric, obtuse. 



ITile Ziand. British East Africa : near Mombasa, llihlehrandt, 1979 ! 



17. S. Schweinfurthii, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 143. 

 Stem twining, glabrous. Leaves thin; petiole |-1-J lin. long; blade 



