H4 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [Gi/mnema. 



[iromineiit and glabrous or nearly so at the subacute free incurved tips, 

 densely ciliate on each side of the decurrent part below. Style 

 protruded much beyond the erect anthers, exceeding the corolla-tube, 

 but rarely as long as the corolla-lobes ; apical part stout, ovoid, obtuse, 

 slightl}' two-iobed or entire. Follicles 2|-3J in. long, J in. thick, 

 lanceolate, attenuate into a beak, glabrous. Seeds o^-o lin. long, 

 •ovate, plano-convex, with a rather broad marginal wing, glabrous, 

 brown.— DO. Prpd. viii. 621 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 48 ; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 29 ; Wight, Ic. PI. ii. i. 3, t. 349 ; Martelli, FL Bogos. 

 55 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 325, and in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 2H'd, fig. 85, F-G, and 284, and in Engl. Jahrb. 

 XXX. 385. G. 7'iifescens, Decne., and G. suhvolubile, Decne., in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. 2 ser. ix. 277, t. 11, fig. A, and in DC. Prod. viii. 621.' G'. 

 sabvolubile, Hook. Niger Fl. 455 ; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. 

 159. G. humile, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 621; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 42. G. M'Kenii, Harv. Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. 2, ti39. G. 

 J'ruticulosum, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 101. G. g€mi7iatiim, Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 691, not of R. Br. Periploca st/lvestris, Retz. 

 Obs. ii. 15; Willd. Phytog. 7, t. 5, fig. 3, and Sp. PI. i. 1252, 

 Cynanchum subvoluhtle, Schumach & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 150. 

 (J. senegalense, Sieber ex Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 621. Asclepias 

 (jeminaia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20, and Fl. Ind. ii. 45 (1832). 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger, 49 ! Sieher, 22 ! Gold Coast : Accra, 

 AnselL ! Ada, Thinning; Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 721 Lagos: near Owi Owi, 

 Millen, 49 (1895 Coll.) ! Ogumpa, Dawodu, 89 ! Niger River (Quorra), Vogel, 

 46 ! 166 ! Barter ! Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker, 1497 ! 



lO'ile Iiand. Eritrea: Keren, Steudner, 7561 Beccari, 283 (ex Martelli). 

 Abyssinia : Plain of Hamedo, 4700 ft., Schimper, 117 ! ne.ir Gapdia, Schimper, 807 ! 

 Modat Province, Schimper, 1752 ! near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 1722 ! and without 

 precise locality, Quartin Dillon Sf Petit ! Jur : Jur Ghattas, Schweinfv.rth, 2347 ! 



Ijoixrer Guinea. Loango : Chinchocho, Soyaux, 43 ! Angola : Pungo 

 Andongo ; on lofty ledges of the Presidium, Welwitsch, 4198 ! Huilla ; in thinly 

 wooded parts of Morro de LojxjIIo, at Ferrao da Sola, Welwitsch, 4242 ! 



AXozamb. X>ist. German East Africa : Usaramo ; Dar es Salaam, Kirk ! 

 Kondeland, on a mountain side by Lake Nyasa at Langenburg, 1600 ft., Goetze, 

 863 (ex Schumann). British Central Africa : ^yasaland, Buchanan, 1162 I Likoma 

 Isliind in Lake Nyasa, Johnson I 



Extends into Madagascar, South Africa, and the drier parts of India. The 

 Australian plant united with it by Bentham is quite distinct. 



The leaves when chewed destroy the taste of sweetness. This was first observed 

 bv M. P. Edgeworth (Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 353). See also Hooper in Nature, xxxv. 

 565-567. 



Imperfectly known species. 



2. G. crenatum, Klotzsch in Peters, Raise Mossamb. Bot. 273. A 

 climbing shrub, very much branched; branches grey, glabrous; 

 branchlets reddish-pubescent. Leaves small, coriaceous ; petiole 1-2 

 lin. long, reddish-pubescent; blade Ij in. long, 9 lin. broad, oblong- 

 obovate, obsoletely crenate towards the obtuse apex, tapering below to 

 a cuneate entire base, shining above, puberulous beneath. Cymes 



