Ci/nanchu7)i.] lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). 897 



minutely puberulous or nearly glabrous; bracts very minute, acute^ 

 puberulous ; pedicels 2-^ lin. long, pubescent or puberulous. Sepals 

 about i lin. long, J lin. broad, ovate or oblong-ovate, somewhat obtuse^ 

 pubescent or puberulous. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, rotate 

 4 lin. in diam. ; lobes lf-2 lin. long, | lin. broad, oblong or 'oblong- 

 ovate, subacute, glabrous on both sides, apparently dull greenish. 

 Corona lJ-1 j lin. long, tubular, shortly 5-lobed or toothed at the apex^ 

 without teeth or lobes inside the tube, white; teeth ^-h lin. long and 

 rather more in breadth, deltoid or rounded, obtuse or subacute, crenulate 

 or entire. Staminal-column |-J lin. long ; filament part about | lin. long ; 

 anther-appendages nearly J lin. lon'j, ^ lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate,' 

 subobtuse or acute, connivent-erect over the shorter conical fi-angled 

 apical part of the style. — Schlechter in Journ. Bot., Ib95, 3:37. C. 

 mensense, Schweinf. ex K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 324 ; and 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 253. 



JTile Z.ancl. Eritrea : near Acrour, 6000 ft., Schicexnfurth i- Rivn, 1695 T 



Uganda : Usoga, Scott-Elliot, 7227 ! 



HCozaml). Bist. German East Africa : Usambaia; Kwa Mshuza, Hoist ^ 

 907S ! Kiiiinanjaro ; Marangu, 4900 ft., VolTcens^Vimi Kanigwe ; on ilry hills, 

 4000-5000 ft., Scott.miiot, 8163 ! 



This species varies considerably in its pubescence, but the structure of the 

 flowers is constant. 



10. C. hastifolium, iV^. E, Br. in Kew Bulletin, 189."), 257. Stems 

 twining, slender, woody below, pubescent on the very young shoots and 

 in the leaf-axils, becoming glabrous. Leaves spreading ; petiole 3 (I 

 lin. long; blade J-I5 in. long, lJ-3 lin. broad at the middle, 3-7 lin. 

 broad across the basal lobes, hastate ; front lobe linear-oblong, acute ; 

 basal lobes oblong or deltoid, very obtuse, broadly cuneate or truncate 

 at the very base, both sides glabrous. Umbels sessile between the 

 bases of the petioles on the young shoots, few-flowered; pedicels 2-3 

 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals 1 lin. long, subulate, puberulous. Corolla 

 5-lobed almost to the base; lobes 2J-3 lin. long, i— J lin. broad, linear, 

 acute, glabrous, margins strongly revolute. Corona ari.-ing at the base 

 of the staminal -column, with a plicate tube Ij lin. long, and lo teeth 

 § lin. long, alternating with 10 minute teeth, 5 of the teeth deltoid, 

 obtuse or subacute, the other 5 filiform, slightly clavate, with 5 pairs of 

 keels decurrent from them within the tube, opposite the anthei.*;. 

 Staminal-column reaching to the top of the coronal-tube, shortly stipi- 

 tate within the corona ; anther-appendages erect, very large, orbicular 

 or orbicular-quadrate, subtruncate or apiculate. Apical part of the .'^tyle 

 about as long as the anther-appendages, shorter than the corona, of 

 equal thickness throughout. — C. hastifoliiim, K. Schum. in Engl. 6: 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 253. 



lO'ile Iiand. Eritrea: to the East of Aniba Tuklmn, lUXJ fr , :^. In, ,,:r,n fh 

 ^ Elva, 616 ! Abyssinia : near Jelajenuine, Schimper, 1690 : 



1 1 . C. clavidens, X. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1 805, 25(;. Jiranchea 

 slender, woody ; bark pale grey, glabrous. Leaves rather siu. nliiu'; 



