Gymiiema.'] Lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 410 



axillary, twice shorter than the leaves, reddish-pubescent. Sepals very 

 short, scarious at the margin, pubescent on the back. Corolla rotate 

 deeply o-lobed, conical in bud, very shortly tomentose on both sides; 

 lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute. " Corona none. Style-hood 5-lobed ; 

 lobes recurved ; stigma obtuse, projecting." 



Mozamb. I>ist. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zaiu])esi ; near Tet'.', 

 Peters. 



I have not seen this plajit, but from tlie description I am sure iljat it U \V)l h 

 Gijinnema, but n)ay perliaps belong to the genus Secamone. 



Gymnema nltlduxn, Benth. in Hook. Isiger FL. 456; U'alji. Ann. iii. 61. 



This plant is not an Asclepiad ! Bentliam must have examined a loose Hower that 

 did not belong to tlie plant, as his description, as well as his draw ings on the typo- 

 slieet, indicate the floral structure of Gymnema. But the type specimen has one 

 bud still attached; this I liave soaked and examined without reuioving it, and 

 (although immature) I find its structure to be as follows : SL'i)als o. short, tliick and 

 roundish. Petals 5, free, imbricate. Stamens 4. one being apparently somewliat 

 imperfect, incumbent on the sides of the ovary. Ovary superior, trigoninis with a 

 siibsessile shortly 3-lobed stigma. J could not dissect the bud further without 

 destroying it. The above characters and the general a})pearance of the plant refer it 

 to Salacia ; I therefore propjse for it the name of Salacia nitida, N. E. Br. 



as. ANISOPUS, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 259. 



Calyx Ti-partite. Corolla-tube short, campanulate ; lobes 5, spreading, 

 very narrowly overlapping or almost valvate in bud. Corona double ; 

 outer inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube, consisting of 5 fleshy 

 lobes at the sinuses (perhaps thickened sinus-angles of the corolla ?) or 

 of a membranous ring ; inner of 5 fleshy lobes arising from the staminal- 

 column, adnate to it in their lower part, free above, opposite the 

 anthers. Staminal-column arising from the base of the corolla-tube ; 

 anthers erect with membranous appendages. Pollen-masses erect, 

 solitary in each anther-cell, attached in pairs by short caudicles to the 

 pollen-carriers. Follicles very long, widely divergent, terete, acute, 

 smooth, seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. — A tall glabrous twiner. 

 Leaves- opposite, petiolate, herbaceous, with distinct veins. Flowers in 

 umbels, axillary and from both axils, one umbel pedunculate, the other 

 sessile and developing later. 



Species 2, endemic. 



Since the publication of this genus I have seen flowers presorveil in fluid, in 

 which the processes I have described as outer coronal-lobes api)ear to be raised or 

 tubercular projections of the sinuses of tlie corolla it-elf rather than true coninal 

 pi'ocesses. The name is formed from (iviaos, unequal and ttovs, •\ foot, in allusion to 

 one umbel of each pair being stalked and the other sessile. The corou.il-lobts or 

 tubercles at the mouth of the corolla resemble those of Leptadenin, and those on 'he 

 staminal-column those of Marsdenia, near which genus I place it for the present. 

 Leaves rounded at the base; outer corona of 5 minute 



lobes 1. -1. Mannii. 



Leaves acute at the base; out.^r corona of a mem- 

 branous rinir -• -^- ^i<^oro»ata. 



