Bcemia.] lxxxv. asclepiade.^ (brown). :^89 



calyx more or less subhispidulous. Leaves spreading; petiole 1-2 in. 

 long; blade 1J-2J in. long, j-2 in. broad, cordate-ovate or cordate- 

 orbicular, acuminate or cuspidate-acuminate, more or less pubescent on 

 both sides ; basal lobes incurved, semiorbicular, with a broad -based 

 sinus between them. Peduncles sublateral, longer than the leaves; 

 flowers at first corymbose, the axis gradually lengthening into a long 

 Taceme, which (including the peduncle) is 2-G in. long; bracts 1-1 1 

 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels slender, 1-1 J in. long. Sepals J lin. long" 

 J lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla-tube 2^-2^, lin. long 

 (3 lin. long, Klotzsch), cyhndric ; lobes 2J-3 lin. long, Ij-lf lin. broad, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, bordered with long white intertwined hairs 

 along the margins within, otherwise glabrous. Outer coroEal -lobes 

 arising about -h a lin. above the base of the staminal-column, nearly .\ 

 lin. long, oblong, emarginate at the apex; inner coronal-lobes l| 

 lin. long, fleshy, adnate up to the base of the anthers, with the apical 

 part free, just exceeding the staminal-column and incumbent on the 

 ■tips of the anthers ; spur very slender, subulate, spreading-deflexed, 

 -about f lin. long, arising above the middle (1 J lin. above the base) of 

 the staminal-column. 



XMCozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Inhambane, Peters! Britisli 

 Central Africa : Boruaia, on the Zambesi, Meni/harth, 6-i7 ! Nyasalaud ; belween 

 Kondowe and Karonga, 2000-6000 ft , TFhi/te ! 



28. DIPLOSTIGMA, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 324. 



Flowers minute. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate ; lobes over- 

 lapping, but not twisted in bud. Corona double, affixed to the 

 staminal-column ; outer corona flattened out and adpressed to the biise 

 of the corolla, obscurely lobulate ; inner coronal-lobes refracted, 

 oblong, obtuse, subcarinate down the middle on the back, and accum- 

 bent on the exterior corona. Style umbonate at the apex, surrounded 

 by a short 5-lobed cup. — Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 250. 

 Monotypic, endemic. 



1. D. canescens, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 324. An 

 «rect shrublet about 1 J-2 ft. high, woody at the base. Branches erect, 

 virgate, whitish-puberulous, subtomentose in the upper part. Leaves 

 not more than 8 lin. long, scarcely Ij lin. broad at the base, sub- 

 linear, slightly dilated at the truncate base, shortly })etiolate, 

 puberulous. Flowers few, fasciculate, axillary. Sepals lanceolate, 

 scarcely J lin. long, puberulous. Corolla 1\ lin. long. StauiinaU 

 column scarcely i lin. long.— K. Schum. in Engl, .t Prantl, Pflanzen- 

 fam. iv. ii. 257. 



Mozamb. l>lst. German East Africa: wltliout i)reoi80 locality, Fisrh,r. 

 Coll. i. 232. 



This plant is unknown to me. 



