404 Lxxxv. ASCLEPIADE.E (brown). [Tylojjhoropsis, 



peduncles J-1 J in. long, pubescent, bearing 1-2, 4-9-flowered umbel- 

 like cymes ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, more or less pubescent. Sepal? 

 ^ lin. long, broadly ovate, acute, glabvous, ciliate. Corolla 5-lobed 

 nearly to the base, probably rotate; lobes 2-2)2 ^^^- ^^^Sy oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse and somewhat cochleate at the apex, glabrous out- 

 side, puberulous inside, with one margin glabrous. Corona of 5 oblong 

 fleshy gibbosities on the basal- half of the staminal-column, and with 

 or without 5 very minute lobules alternating with them at the base of 

 the column, where they are connected in a ring. Anther-tips inflexed 

 over the 5-rayed dilated part of the style, the apex of which is slightly 

 raised into a button-shaped knob having a depressed line across it and 

 not exceeding the level of the anther-tips. — Hook. le. PI. t. 2373 ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. &, Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 255. Tylopkora 

 heterophylla, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 41, t. 71 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 61 ; 

 Penzig in Atti del Congr. Bot. Internaz., 1892, 349. Vincetoxicum 

 heteroph{jlhom,Y2it'ke in Linn^ea, xl. 212; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 

 Afr. 342. Gymnema longepedunculata^ Schweinf . in Hohnel, Rudolph-See 

 und Stephanie-See, Sonderabdr. 8 : K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 

 C. 325. Sjyhcerocodon longipeduncidata, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 326, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 285. Tylophora 

 longipedunculata, Schleohter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 338. 



zrile Itand. Eritrea : by the River Anseba, the torrent Aibaba, in the Valley 

 of Belta and at Geleb, Penzig (ex Penzig). Abyssinia : Tigre ; Mount Semayata 

 9300 ft., Schimper, 471 (ex Vatke) ; Wojerat; Mount Goumassa, 8000 ft., Fetii (ex 

 Richard) ; and without precise locality, Schimper, 394 ! 833 ! Uganda : Ruwcn- 

 zori ; Butagu, in forest, 8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7973 ! Without locality, Rohnel. 



Mozaxnb. Dlst. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; above Marangu, 9100ft., 



Volkens, 1884 ! 



The flowers appear to be of a dark purple-brown, with a whitish pubescence 

 inside. 



33. TYLOPHORA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 770. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla very deeply 5-lobed, rotate or rotate- 

 campanulate ; lobes more or less overlapping to the left, and. sometimes- 

 twisted in bud. Corona of 5 small or minute tubercles, adnate to or 

 ladiating from the filament part of the staminal-column and arising^ 

 near to or at its base. Staminal-column arising from the base of the 

 corolla ; anthers erect, opening by crescent-shaped transverse slits,, 

 tipped with a small membranous appendage which is often reduced to a 

 mere hyaline margin, their fertile part seated in slight cavities under 

 the margin of the dilated apex of the style. Pollen-masses very minute, 

 erect, suberect, or horizontal, attached by their middle or near their 

 base to very slender caudicles, by which they are aflSixed in pairs to the 

 pollen-carriers. Style pentagonal or 5-lobed at the depressed, flattened' 

 or convex apex, rarely slightly exceeding the anthers. Follicles smooth, 

 sometimes winged. Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. — Twining or 

 erect perennials. Leaves opposite, petiolate. Inflorescence sublateral 



