420 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). [Marsclenia. 



?). M. zaxnbesiaca, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1805, 388. Stem 

 twining, at first more or less puberulous, with the tips and unexpanded 

 leaves reddish-tomentose, becoming glabrous, with a pale brown bark. 

 Leaves spreading; petiole i-l:| in. long; blade |-f)-Hn. long, h-^h 

 in. broad, subianceolate, ovate or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, acute or 

 acuminate, often rather abruptly so, varying from cuneate to subc^rdate 

 at the base, quite glabrous on both sides w4i en fully developed. Cymes 

 umbel-like, pedunculate, lateral at the nodes, severai-fiowered; peduncles 

 \-\ in. long, rusty-pubescent or subtomentose ; bracts leafy, deciduous. 

 ^-?{ in, long, 1-2 lin. broad, obianceolate or obovate, acute, glabrous ; 

 pedicels {,-| in. long, reddish-pubescent. Sepals large, 2|-4|^ lin. long. 

 l|-2 lin. broad, varying from oblong to elliptic-oblong, subacute, thin, 

 glabrous, very minutely ciliate. Corolla creamy-white; tube 1^-1 1 

 lin, long, campanulate ; lobes rotately spreading, 4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, 

 oblong, obtuse or emarginate, glabrous on the back, pubescent within, 

 ciliolate along one margin. Coronal-lobes l|-2 lin. long, as long as or 

 slightly exceeding the staminal-column, reaching to the mouth of the 

 corolla-tube, linear-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, with 

 their free tips incurved over the apex of the style and with narrow 

 free margins to their adnate part. Anther-appendages deltoid-ovate, 

 acute or obtuse. Style truncate, with a convex disc at the apex. 

 Follicles about 3 in. long, Ij in. thick, ovoid, narrowed to an obtuse 

 point, somewhat fleshy, smooth, glabrous, olive-brown. — Dreyea 

 inacrantha. Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 272 ; K. Schum. 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 4G0, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 320. 

 Perijyioca j^etersiana, Vatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 187G, 147. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Ainboella; by the River Kubango, 3200 ft., Baiim. 

 450 ! 



Mozamb. 2>ist. German East Africa : Uhehe; by the River Lukosso, 2n00 ft., 

 Goetze, 4:Sl (ex K. Schumann). Poi'tuguese East Africa: Eaza Island, Forbes! 

 Lower Zambesi ; Tete, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasalatid ; Chiromo, Scoit- 

 EUiot, 2791 (not 3791 as originally quoted) ! Boruma on the Zambesi, Menyharth, 

 802 ! Ngamiland ; Kwebe Hills, 3000-3500 ft., Lngard, 60 ! Mrs. Lugard, 17 ! 



Sir John Kirk states on his label that the Howers are "of a faint yellowish colour 

 and have a most offensive smell, unlike anything else I know. If this remains near 

 one for a short time it produces pain in the forehead with all the feelings of cold in 

 the hea.d," 



4. M. spissa, >S'. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1901, 260. A woody 

 climber or shrub ; young shoots ^ in. or more in thickness, at first 

 reddish-puberulous or subtomentose, becoming glabrous. Leaves 

 rather ascending or spreading; petiole \-l\ in. long; blade l|-4 

 in. long, |- 2J in. broad, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate or cuspidate 

 into an obtuse point, varying from cuneately-rounded to subtruncate or 

 slightly emarginate at the base, at first with a reddish pubescence, 

 becoming glabrous on both sides. Cymes lateral or sublateral, peduncu- 

 late, subumbellately and densely many-flowered, minutely reddish- 

 tomentose on all parts except on the corolla ; peduncles \-\ in. long ; 

 bracts 1-3 lin. long, linear-oblong to obianceolate, acute, deciduous ; 



