Tylophora.'] lxxxv. asclepiade.e (buowx). 407 



3. T. cameroonica, X. E. Br. in Kevj Bulletin, 1895, 258. A 

 vigorous climber, with a hollow glabrous stem. Leaves apparently 

 slightly fleshy ; petiole j-1 J in. long ; blade 3-5 J in. long, 2-3 in, broad, 

 ovate to elliptic-ovate, rather abruptly cuspidate-acuminate, cordate, 

 with a shallow broadly open sinus at the base, glabrous ; only the 

 primary veins visible on the underside. Flowers in small clusters or 

 very short racemes scattered along the branches of lateral snl)sessile 

 or shortly pedunculate lax cymes, whidi have 3 primary branches that 

 are again once or twice trichotomously or dichotomously divided, the 

 whole cyme having a spread of 4-5 in. with a height of 2-3 in., at tirbt 

 minutely rusty-puberulous, becoming glabrous; pedicels lA-2 lin. 

 long, puberulous. Sepals l-^ lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. 

 Corolla rotate, 2J lin. in diam. ; lobes 1 lin. long, rj in. broad, ovato, sub- 

 obtuse, ciliolate along one margin. Coronal-tubercles fleshy, transversely- 

 oblong, radiating from the base of the \ lin. long staminnl-coUunn, 

 with their upper face sloping nearly up to the base of the anthers, dark 

 coloured in the dried state. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Kio del Key, Johnston! 



4. T. apiculata, K. Schnm. in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 325. Stem 

 twining, slender, perfectly glabrous. Leaves on rather long petioles, 

 ovate, broadly elliptic, or suborbiculate, acute or often obtuse or retuse, 

 apiculate, cordate at the base, membranous, dark green, glabi-ous. 

 Panicle composed of a few alternating fascicles ; pedicels li-- lii^^- ^o"c> 

 very slender, glabrous ; flowers 1 lin. long. Sepals scarcely h lin. long, 

 green, glabrous. Corolla rotate, 2 lin. in diam., glabrous; lobes 

 I lin. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Coronal-tubercles minute, arising 

 a little above the base of the J lin. long staminal-column. 



IVIozanib. Dlst. East German Africa : Pang-ani, Sluhlniann, Coll. i. 818 

 (884 ! oil the label seen). 



I have only seen a single leaf 2 in. long and 1^ in. broad, aiul a few rto\M;s ( t" 

 this plant. 



5. T. sylvatica, Decne. in Ann. Sc. Xat. 2 ser. ix. 273. Stem 

 twining, slender, with two puberulous lines. Leaves spreading ; petiole 

 i-2 in. long; blade l-|-6 in. long, 1-3] in. broad, oblong, ovate- or 

 elliptic-cordate, acuminate, acute, or shortly and abruptly apiculate- 

 cuspidate, glabrous, slightly pubescent along the midrib and nerves 

 above and down the face of the petiole. Inflorescence sublateral at the 

 nodes, 4-6 in. long, pedunculate, simple or branched, minutely 

 pubescent, bearing several sessile clusters of small brownish-purple 

 flowers racemosely scattered along it, ]-j in. distant; pedicels i' ;5 

 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals \-\ lin. long, ovate, acute or subobtnse. 

 puberulous. Corolla rotate, purplish, li-2 lin. in diam., 5-lobed nejuly 

 to the base; lobes |-1 lin. long, oblong^ obtuse or subacute, glabrous. 

 Coronal-tubercles transverse, arising near the base of the barely A lin. 

 long staminal-column, dark coloured in the dried st-;ite. Follicles 

 2J-3-1- in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, smooth and glabrou.^. Seeds 

 4^ lin. long, l| lin. broad, elongate-ovate, concave on one face, convex 



