■Cynanchum.] Lxxxv. asclepiade.*: (brown). 3li9 



lanceolate-oblong, obtuse or acute, slightly puberulous or glabrous. 

 Corolla rotate, 4-41 Hn. in diam. ; lobes Ij lin. lon<r; 1 lin. broad, 

 oblong, subobtuse, saccate just below the apex, witli sUorigly revohite 

 margins and the whole lobe slightly twisted when fully expanded, 

 glabrous. Corona divided to the base into 5 broad cuneate lobes 

 ]l lin. long, trifid to J of the way down; teeth erjual, the lateral 

 linear-subulate, divergent; middle tooth deltoid-ovate, acute; inner 

 face of the lobe with two parallel keels down the middle and two 

 oblique keels from the lateral teeth joining them at a little below the 

 middle. Staminal-column 1 J lin. long, the stipitate part l liu. long. 

 Pollen- carriers very narrow, &\\hQv%ct.~SchizostephauHS souialiensis, 

 N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 250; K. Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. 

 Roma, vii. 88. 



irile Ziand. SomaUland: Boohi, James <^ Thruj)p .' 



14. C. praecox, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1902, 250. Plant very 

 small, probably wich a tuberous rootstock, 1-1 1- in. high, formitjg 

 *' little tufts close to the ground, no leaves at the time of flowering " 

 (Band). In the type the single stem is about j lin. thick, pubescent, 

 bearing a few ovate acute pubescent scale-leaves |-1 lin. long, J-5 lin. 

 broad, and is cymosely divided at the top into a dense cluster of sessile 

 or pedunculate cymes, forming a head of flowers about j in. in diam. ; 

 pedicels l|^-3 lin. long, puberulous with minute curved hairs. Sepals 

 about 1 lin. long, J lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 puberulous on the back. Corolla deeply lobed, campanulate, quite 

 glabrous; tube | lin. long; lobes Ij lin. long, §-| lin. broad, oblong, 

 obtuse, margins recurved. Corona 1 J lin. long, 10-lobed to about half- 

 way down, without lobes or appendages within, glabrous ; tube j; lin. 

 long ; longer lobes §-f lin. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, margins incurved; 

 shorter lobes J-J lin. long, ovate, obtuse, plicate. Staminal-column 

 J Hn. long; anther-appendages elliptic, subacute, ascending mid 

 adpressed to the sides of the shortly conical style -apex, which 

 slightly exceeds them. 



Mozamb. 3>ist. Rhodesia: Salisbury district, in the valley of the Hivt-r 

 Mazoe, Hand, 512 ! 



15. C. sarcostemmatoides, K. Schum. in Enyl. PjL Ost-A/r. 

 C. o2o. Stem twining, succulent, leafless or with minute .sessile ovat^^ 

 rudimentary leaves \ lin. long, glabrous, very similar to that of 

 tSarcosteinma viminale but more slender, f-1 i lin. thick. Flowere few or 

 several, umbellate on short sublateral tubercles, which elongate to J in. 

 and become densely covered with the contiguous spirals of scars of 

 fallen flowers; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals j- J lin. long, 

 ovate, acute, glabrous. Corolla rotate, about 2i lin. in diam., .'»-lol)ed 

 nearly to the base; lobes 1 lin. long, oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous. 

 Corona arising from the base of the staminal-column and as long ;us it, 

 J lin. long, campanulate, 5-toothed ; teeth shortly ovate or oblong, 

 inflexed over the backs of the anthers, with decuirent keels from their 

 margins within the tube; corona below the keels attached to the 



