408 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE.^ (brown). \Tijloxihora. 



on the other, with a winged margin, toothed at the broad end, both 

 sides with a minute tufted pubescence, light brown. — DC. Prod. viii. 

 610 ; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 455 ; K. Schum.- in Bull. Soc. Bot, 

 Belg. XXX vii. 123 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. G91, T. silvatica, 

 K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 325; Schlechter, Westafr. 

 Kautschuk-Exped. 309 ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 28G, and 

 283, fig. 85, 0-P, the pollen incorrectly represented as pendulous. 



X?pper Guinea. Senegainbia (816! from Paris Herbarium, collector not 

 stated). Sierra Leone : near Falaba, Scott-Elliot, 5455 ! Liberia : Cape Palma«, 

 Vogel, 3 ! Gold Coast : Aburi Gardens, Johnson, 770 ! Tojro : Mi^all6he, 

 Baumann, hll\ Lagos: Me, Millen, IQQ ! \niev\oT, Rotoland ! by the river at 

 Odo Onon, Doivodu, 173! Niger Territory: Jeba and Nupe, Barter, 1321 ! Biver 

 l:<snn, Mann, 479 1 Akassa, Everett Button, 2'd\ Cameroons : Batanga district, 

 near Bapu, Bates, 197 ! Fernando Po, Vogel, 237 ! 



XiO't^er Cruiaea. Lower Congo : Bingiia, Dupuis (ex Schumann). Angola : 

 Golungo Alto ; near Sancbes, Wehoitsch, 4280 ! Sange district, Welwitsch, 4231 ! 



Soutb Ceatrai. Congo Free State : near Coquilbatville, Schlechter, 12610 

 (ex Schlechter). 



ZWEosatnb. £ist. German East Africa, see Engler Pilanzenw. Ost-Afr. Tli. C, 

 32o, no localities or collectors quoted. 



Occurs also in Madagascar, but T have not seen it from intermediate localities. 

 Probably T. bojeriana, Deoaisiie in DC. Prod. viii. 607, is this species. 



6. T. oblanga, IV. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 257. A slender 

 twiner, glabrous in all parts. Leaves spreading or somewhat defiexed ; 

 petiole ^-| in. long ; blade 2J-3 in. long, 1-1 f in. broad, oblong to 

 elliptic-obovate, shortly cuspidate-acuminate, rather broadly cuneate or 

 cuneateiy rounded at the base. Inflorescence lateral or sublateral, 

 consisting of a simple axis 2-3 in. long, bearing 3-4 distant sessile 

 sevei^al-flovvered racemes 1 -i-3 lin. long scattered along it ; pedicels 3-4 

 lin. long, slender. Sepals |-J lin. long, ovate, acute, more or less 

 slightly cilioiate. Corolla rotate, about 3 lin. in diam., white ; lobes 

 1^ lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong, obliquely produced on one side in the 

 upper part, very broadly rounded and minutely fimbriate-laciniate on 

 one side at the apex. Coronal-tubercies minute, spreading from the 

 base of the J lin. long staminal-coiumn, transverse, broadly rounded, 

 fleshy, flattened above, very convex beneath, dark coloured in the dried 

 state. Style truncate, with 5 decurved rays at its apex. Follicles 

 3 in. long, J- in. thick, lanceolate, acuminate, winged on each side, 

 smooth and glabrous. Seeds (unripe) elongate- ovate, winged, concavo- 

 convex, minutely tuberculate on both sides. 



Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 277 I 



By some error the diameter of the corolla as stated in my original description is 

 too great. 



7. T. anfracta, X. E. Br. Stem twining, about 1 lin. thick, 

 glabrous. Leaves glabrous : petiole J-| in. long ; blade lf-4i in. long, 

 1 J-2| in. broad, elliptic, rather abruptly and shortly acuminate to a 

 very acute point, usually rounded or sometimes cordate at the Tase. 



