39^ Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [^Cynanchum. 



1. C. abyssinicum, Dec7ie. in DC. Prod. viii. 548. Stem slender, 

 twining, shortly hairy, or pubescent along two lines or all round. Leaves 

 spreading, thin ; petiole ^-1 in. long, pubescent; blade. 1^-3 in. long, 

 J-1 J in. broad, elongate-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, cordate at 

 the base, both sides nearly glabrous, ciliolate. Flowers numerous, in short 

 umbel-like racemes; peduncles J-2 in. long, pubescent or shortly hairy; 

 bracts 1-3 lin. long, subulate or filiform, pubescent ; pedicels \-h in. 

 long, pubescent. Sepals l|-2 lin. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute, 

 pubescent. Corolla |-| in. in diam., rotate ; lobes 2J-4 lin. long, 1-1 J 

 lin. broad, lanceolate-attenuate, obtuse, with a scattered pubescence on 

 the back, puberulous within. Corona tubular, toothed at the top, arising 

 near the base of the staminal-column : tube l-lj lin. long, principal 

 teeth 5, filiform or subulate, 2-2^ lin. long, with 5 short exceedingly 

 variable lobes alternating with them, these are subulate, tapering from 

 the base or deltoid-ovate or abruptly contracted into a short linear 

 recurved tooth, or 3-4-denticulate ; within the tube are 5 other filiform 

 or subulate teeth with ovate or deltoid bases, J-| as long as the long teeth 

 in front of which they arise. Staminal-column scarcely as long as the 

 coronal-tube ; anther-appendages broadly ovate, obtuse, inflexed or con- 

 nivent over the convex or subtruncate apex of the style. — Delessert, 

 Ic. V. 29, t. 69 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 36 ; Vatke in Linn^a, xl. 

 215; K. Schum. in Engl, cfe Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 251, fig. 73, 

 A-B, and 253. 



Wrile Iiand. Abyssinra : Shoa, Petit ! Arbateenseca, near Ado va, Quartin- 

 Dillon, and near Kouaieta (Kuayata), Quart in- Dillon (ex Richard). Plain of 

 Hamedo, Schimper, 940 ? (ex Vatke). 



Var. tomeutosum, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bet. ii. 342. Leaves 

 pubescent above, more or less densely tomeiit^se beneatb. 'J'be flowei-s as in the 

 type, and tbe corona equally variable. — K. Sclium, in Engl. Pfl. 0.4-Afr. C. 324. 

 Vincetoxicum Holstii, K. Sebum, in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 135. Cynanchum Holstii, 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afi-. C. 324; and in Engl. & Prantl, Planzenfam, iv. ii. 

 253. 



irile Ziand. Abyssinia, Schimper, " No. 793 ? " ! 



Mozaxnb. 2>lst. German East Africa: Usambara; Mlalo, Hoist, 507! 

 Kilimanjaro, 5000-7000 ft., Johnston, 177 !, VulTcens, 641 ! 



2. C. mossambicense, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 324. 

 Stem slender, twining, pubescent with short spreading hairs. Leaves 

 spreading, thin ; petioles J-lJ in. long; blade 1-2 in. long, |-lf in. 

 broad, cordate, acute or obtuse, v/ith a mucro ^^ in. long, quite glabrous, 

 whitish-green beneath. Umbels 8-12-flowered ; peduncles J-li- in. 

 long, glabrous or pubescent ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, glabrous or nearly 

 so; bracts minute or none. Sepals | lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, 

 glabrous. Corolla rotate; lobes 2-3 lin. long, | lin. broad, linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, quite glabrous. Corona tubular, subequally 10-toothed ; 

 tube 1-1;^ lin. long; teeth filiform, about 1 lin. long, the alternate 

 ones with a broad ovate complicate base, completely enfolding a short 

 ovate complicate and slightly hooded subacute lobe, that arises from the 

 tube and is adnate to it for | of its length. Staminal-column rather 



