416 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [Anisopus. 



1. A. Mannii, y. E. Br. in Kevj Bulletin, 1805, 259. Stem 

 twining to a height of 12-15 ft., about 1 lin. thick in the flowering 

 part, glabrous, marked with stipulary lines between the bases of the 

 petioles. Leaves spreading ; petiole |— ^- in. long, bearing a distinct 

 gland at the apex ; blade 2J-8 in. long, l:j-lf in. broad, elliptic or 

 elliptic-oblong, abruptly acuminate into a 5-6 lin. long point, 

 broadly rounded, subtruncate or emarginate at the base, glabrous on 

 both sides, herbaceous. Umbels globose, many-flowered, distinctly 

 axillary and from both axils ; the umbel from one axil is pedunculate 

 and bracteate, or the peduncle elongates into a bracteate branch up to 

 '2 in. long (or longer ?), with 2-4 (or perhaps more) nodes, bearing a 

 sessile umbel at each node ; whilst the opposite umbel is sessile in the axil 

 and developes later ; peduncles ^-J in. long, glabrous ; bracts of the 

 pedunculate umbels leafy, |^-1 in. long, lJ-3 lin. broad, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, shortly petiolate or subsessile, glabrous ; of the sessile umbels 

 often minute ; pedicels 3^-6 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals about J lin. 

 long and nearly as broad, elliptic-ovate, obtuse, with a few very minute 

 hairs on the back, minutely ciliate. Corolla 5J-6 (in the dried state 4J) 

 lin. in diam. ; tube 1-1 J lin. long, campanulate; lobes 2 (in the dried 

 state IJ) lin. long, lA lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtuse, very 

 spreading, glabrous outside, pubescent all over within. Outer coronal- 

 lobes (?) or thickened sinus-angles \ lin. long, J lin. broad, fleshy, 

 broadly rounded, pubescent ; inner coronal-lobes arising from the base 

 of the staminal-column and as long as it, 1-1 J lin. long, adnate up to 

 the base of the anthers, thick and fleshy, channelled down the back, 

 with acute margins, incurved over the anthers at the apex, acute, obtuse 

 or minutely bifid. Anther-appendages ovate, acuminate, erect, adpressed 

 to the apical part of the style, which is shortly exserted beyond them, 

 moderately stout and conical and sometimes bifid at the apex. Follicles 

 6-8 in. long, 4-4^ lin. thick (or larger?), terete, tapering to a shortly 

 hooked point, widely divergent, smooth, glabrous. Seeds (very imma- 

 ture) 6-6i lin. long, l|-2 lin. broad, narrowly oblong, smooth. — Hook. 

 Ic. PI. t. 2453 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 

 zum ii..-iv, 288. Marsdenia rhynchogyna, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxiii. 234. 



trpper Guinea. Southern Nigeria : A!iass:i, Sverett Dutton, 32 ! Camrroons : 

 Lolodorf , maudt, 376, 356 ! 



l^ower Guinea. Spanish Gabcon : Corisco Bay, ManUy 1862 ! 



This is the African plant mentioned by Bentliam and Hooker f. in Genera 

 Plantarum, ii. 777, under Hoya ! 



2. A. bicoronata, N. E. Br. Stem climbing ; branches slender, 

 with a spreading pubescence on the youngest parts. Leaves spreading ; 

 petiole 2|-7 lin. long; blade |-3 in. long, 4J-16J lin. broad, oblong, 

 acute or somewhat obtuse, acute at the base, glabrous on both sides. 

 Umbels 7-10-flowered ; peduncles up to 4J lin. long, puberulous ; 

 pedicels 5-() lin. long, filiform, glabrous; bracts minute, lanceolate, 

 piloj-e. Sepals J lin. long, narrowly subulate, pilose. Corolla 2 lin. 

 long ; tube semiglobose ; lobes spreading, ovate. Outer corona a 



