^flc)XtStephrf7UCS.] LXXXV. ASCLEPlADf:.+: (lUiOVVx). '2H\) 



2-^) lin. long; blade l-\\ in. long, U-7 lin. broad, lanceolate, oblong, 

 elliptic-oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate or subacute, ratlin- 

 thick and psrhaps fleshy when alive, margins flat or revolute. ( 'vmes 

 lateral or subaxillary, 1— t-flowered ; peduncles 1-2 lin. long; pedicels 

 H-2^/ lin. long, slender, straight or recurved, glabrous; bracts '.lin. 

 long, ovate, acute. Calyx-lobes !, lin. long, ovate, acute, g];ibrous. 

 Corolla 21 lin. in diam., glabrous outside ; tube campanulate 1 lin. long, 

 sparsely pubescent within; lobes ] i-2 lin. long, suberect, lineai-. 

 obliquely obtuse, slightly twisted, glabrous. Coronal-lobes minute, thin 

 and flat, forming little pockets alternating with the anthers at their 

 base; on the backs of the anthers are also .'> pairs of indistinct di\ erg 

 ing ridges, which may perhaps form part of the corona, easily ox ei - 

 looked. Staminal column n- J lin. long ; anther-appendages ovate, acute, 

 connivent-erect around the base of the apical part of the style, whicii 

 is produced beyond them into a subulate entire or bifid beak 1-1 1 lin. 

 long. — Aste2)hanHS cerimus, Decne. and .1. oratus, Decne. in Ann, Sc. 

 Nat. ser. 2, ix. :)42 ; and in l^C. Prod. viii. f)!)? ; K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 821. A. arenarins, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 507. J. 

 recurratus, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 274 ; K. Schum. 

 in Engl. Pfl. (Xst-Afr. C. o21,and in Engl. & Prantl. PHanzenfam. iv. ii. 

 '2'2L Periploca ovata, Poir. ex Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. ')()}S. 



Wile Z.and. British East Africa : Mombasa, ^i7f/fim»rf/, 1166 ! 1978! 



XVIozaml). 3>ist. Pcmba Island, Bojer (ex Becaisne). Zanzibar, Kirk ! 

 Bojer (e\ Decaisne). Gennan East Africa : Usambarn, 'Muoi\, Hoi sf, 3037 I l\>v- 

 tugiicse East Africa: Mozambique Island, on coral rocks, Scoft .' C'abaccira (Jrande, 

 Kirk ! 



Also in Madagascar and Aldabra Island. 



U. PODOSTELMA, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 133. 



Calyx 5-lobed to half-way down. Corolla-tube short, campanulate ; 

 lobes elongate, narrow, ascending or spreading, overlapping and twisted 

 to the left in the bud. Corona of b minute tubercles or lubes radiating 

 from about the middle or towards the base of the filament part of the 

 staminal column,oppositethe anthers. Staminal-column arising from near 

 the bottom of the corolla-tube, contracted below the anthers and fur- 

 rowed ; anthers erect, their wings much projecting ; appendages erect, 

 membranous. Pollen-masses pendulous, solitary in each anther-cell. n)uch 

 shorter than the linear-oblong pollen-carriers, to which they are att^iched 

 by very short caudicles. Style produced into a long beak, exserted 

 beyond the anthers. Follicles lanceolate, acuminate, smooth and gla- 

 brous. Seeds crowned by a tuft of hair. — A much branched shrub, with 

 some of the branches twining. Leaves opposite. Flowers small, in 

 sublateral or subaxillary few-flowered fascicles or sessile cymes. 



Species 1, endemic. 



Allied to .4.9^f';>/iaM??.?, but distincrnisliod fvoni tbat prenus l>v its cor.-llii and bytb- 



