400 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (browx). [Tijlophova^ 



flowered racemes, \-\ in. long and |— J in. distant ; pedicels 3-4 lin. 

 long, pubescent. Sepals 2 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent,, 

 minutely ciliate. Corolla rotate, 7-8 lin. in diam., o-lobed to rather 

 more than half-way down, apparently dark purple-brown ; lobes 2\ lin. 

 long and the same in breadth, obliquely orbicular-oblong, very obtusely 

 rounded, with a fold at the apex. Coronal-tubercles stout, ovoid, 

 arising J lin. above the widened base of the 1 lin. long staminal-column, 

 reaching to the base of the anthers and entirely adnate, dark coloured 

 iti the dried state. Anthers erect, subtruncate, scarcely appendaged.. 

 Style depressed a little below the anthers at the apex, with a convex 

 tubercle in the centre. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. G91. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Aburi, Johnson ! 



ZiO\<rer Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto ; forests of Sobato Mussengue and 

 near Sange, WelwiUch, 4212 ! 4213 ! 4214 ! forests by tlie Kiver Delambo.i, Wei- 

 witsch, 4215 ! and without precise locality, Welicitsch^ 4216 ! 



When I first described this I had only seen very young inflorescences, where the 

 fiowers appeared to be subumbellate on the briinches of the cyme, but later, the 

 branches elongate and the flowers become racemose. The flowers, according to 

 Johnson, are dark and have a disagreeable odour. 



2. T. oculata, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 112. Stem 

 twining, slender, glabrous. Leaves spreading ; petiole 4-7 lin. long ; 

 blade 2-3 J in. long, 10-15 lin. broad, oblong or ovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 cordate with small rounded lobes at the base, glabrous on both sides, 

 except for a minute pubescence along the upper side of the midrib 

 and petiole. Inflorescence axillary, sometimes from both axils of the 

 leaf-pairs, 2-3 in. long, simple or more usually dichotomously 

 2-branched 2-3 lin. above the base, unbranched part thinly and very 

 minutely pubescent; branches lJ-3 in. long, glabrous, each bearing 

 2 umbel-like flower-clusters, J-l:j in. distant, the lower one sometimes 

 shortly pedunculate ; bracts minute, broadly ovate, with a border of 

 minute white hairs; pedicels 4-7 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals about 

 J lin. long and broad, deltoid-ovate, subacute, minutely ciliate. Corolla 

 J in. in diam., rotate, pale greenish, with a purple ring around the 

 staminal-colunin ; lobes about 2 lin. long and the same in breadth, 

 obliquely oblong, shortly lacerate-fimbriate at the apex, more or less 

 recurving along the margins, glabrous. Coronal-tubercles radiately 

 spreading from a little above the base of the staminal-column, \ lin. 

 long and broad, fleshy, subquadrate, flat above, very convex beneath, 

 obtusely rounded at the apex, dark purple. Staminal-column not 

 widened at the base, about J lin. long; anthers broader than long, 

 rounded, faintly purplish, with a^ narrow hyaline margin. Style 

 exceeding the anthers, pyramidally convex at the' apical part, very 

 pale greenish. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot ! 



Described from a living plant cultivated at Kew, which was raised from seed, 

 brought from Sierra Leone by Mr. Scott-Elliot in 1892. 



