424 Lxxxv. AscLEriADEiE (brown). [MoTsdenia. 



column, 1 J lin. long, somewhat compressed, adnate in the lower half, which 

 is deeply grooved on the back, with slightly spreading wing-like sides ; 

 apical half free, linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, slightly concave on the 

 inner face, incurved over the backs of the anthers and apex of the style. 

 Anther-appendages h lin. long, deltoid or ovate, acute, free, connivent 

 around the stout subhemispherical apex of the style, which does not 

 exceed them in length. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw, i. C92. 



Iiower Cruinea. Aiig-ola : Pimgo Andongo ; in tliit-kets in tlic Prsesidium at 

 Canibondo, TFelwitsch, 4245 ! Huilla ; in woods to the west of Lopollo, 5200 ft., 

 Welwitsch, 4250 ! 



10. M. leonensis, Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 455. St;em twining, 

 minutely puberulous, slender. Leaves spreading or defiexed ; petiole 

 1-1 J in. long; blade ^-4 in. long, l-o-lf ij^- broad, cordate-oblong, 

 abruptly acuminate into an acute point J-J in. long, glabrous on both 

 sides. Cymes subaxillary, | in. long, pedunculate, two-branched, puber- 

 ulous ; branches \-\ in. long, bearing several flowers racemosely 

 arranged; bracts minute ; pedicels H-2 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals 

 barely 1 lin. long, elliptic or orbicular, very obtuse, puberulous. Corolla 

 glabrous outside ; tube | lin. long, broadly campanulate, with long 

 retrorse white hairs within, and 5 tufts of similar hairs on minute tuber- 

 cles at the sinuses of the corolla-lobes, which are as long as the tube, 

 ovate, subacute. Coronal-lobes arising at the base of and a little shorter 

 than the J lin. long staminal-column, adnate at their basal half to the 

 column and dorsally pioduced into dark-coloured ascending tooth-like 

 tubercles, which are grooved behind, distinctly confluent at their base 

 and reach up between the pairs of anther- wings to their middle or a 

 little beyond ; their aj)ical half free, subulate, acute, white, erect, 

 applied to the backs of the anthers. Staminal-column with the filament 

 part undeveloped, and the anther-wings extending nearly to its base ; 

 anther-appendages ovate-oblong, obtuse, longer than broad, incumbent 

 on the short conical style-apex, which they cover. — Walp. Ann. iii. 61. 



Upper G-uinea. Sierra Leone, Vogel ! 



11. M. glabriflora, Benth. m Hook. Niger Fl. 455. A woody 

 climber, with hollow glabrous stems. Leaves spreading; petiole J-lJ 

 in. long; blade 1^-3 in. long, f-lj in. broad, oblong-ovate, acuminate, 

 cordate at the base, with a broad open sinus and rounded lobes, glabrous 

 on both sides. Inflorescence terminal and subaxillary on the lateral 

 shoots, cymose or cymose-paniculate ; flowers small, racemosely arranged 

 and rather crowded on the short puberulous branches ; pedicels 1-1 J 

 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals ^-| lin. long, elliptic or orbicular-ovate, 

 obtuse, sparsely puberulous, ciliolate. Corolla 1-1 J lin. long, glabrous 

 inside and out, or with here and there a hair in the campanulate tube ; 

 lobes as long as the tube, deltoid-ovate, acute. Corolla-lobes not quite 

 reaching to the tops of the | lin. long staminal-column ; basal part 

 adnate, fleshy, grooved behind ; apical half free, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 applied to the backs of the anthers. Anther-appendages short, some- 

 what inrolled over the tips of the anthers and resting on the margin of 



