Marsdenia.] lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 425 



the hemispherical style-apex, which is slightly raised above them. — 

 Walp. Ann. iii. 61. 



"Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Vojel ! 



Var. orhicidaris^ N". E. Br. Sepals glabrous. The free iijiical part of the 

 coronal-lobes orbicular, obtuse. Follicles 3 in. lono^ and about \ in. tliick, but un- 

 ripe, lanceolate, acuminate, smooth, ^^labrous. All the rest as in the type. 



Upper Guinea* Southern Nigeria : River Bonny, Mann ! 



12. M. raoemosa, K. Schum. in Enyl. Jahrh. xvii. 147. A 

 vigorous climber with milky juice ; flowering part of the stem 1-2 lin. 

 thick, terete, hollow, and together with the petioles, nerves of tlie leaves 

 beneath, and all parts of the inflorescence (except the corolla) more or 

 less pubescent with short curved hairs, densest on the inflorescence. 

 Leaves spreading; petiole |-5 in. long; blade 1^-5 in. long, 1-4} in. 

 broad, broadly cordate-ovate, cuspidate-acuminate ; b.isal sinus varying 

 from narrow to broad and open ; both sides sprinkled with short hairs or 

 glabrous except on the nerves beneath ; veins conspicuously reticulate 

 beneath. Panicles cymose, lateral, H-8 in. long, including the \--\ 

 in. long peduncle, formed of 2-5 alternate branches J-4J in. long, e;ich 

 with numerous 2-4:-flowered fascicles of small flowers racemosely 

 scattered along them ; pedicels 1-2 lin. long. Sepals \-\ lin. long, 

 elHptic, obtuse. Corolla 2i-3 lin. in diam., 5-lobed to below the 

 middle, rotate, yellow ; lobes 1-1} lin. long, oblong-ovate, subacute, 

 glabrous outside, retrorsely and sparsely pubescent with fine silky hairs 

 on the basal part within. Coronal-lobes arising from the base of the 

 staminal-column, shorter than the anthers, their basal part adnate to 

 the column, and dorsally produced into radiating tuberc-les that are 

 grooved behind or beneath and somewhat compressed into a ridge above, 

 their apical part free, erect, subulate, acute, applied to the backs of the 

 anthers. Style convex at the apex, slightly exceeding the anther- 

 appendages, which are incumbent upon it. Staminal-column (including 

 the style) f lin. long.— Durand and Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 104 ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. G92. M. lalifolia, Schlechter, Westafr. 

 Kautschuk-Exped. 309. Gongronema lati folium, Benth. in Hook. Niger 

 Fl. 450; Walp. Ann. iii. C2 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 2:U;. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Kuabu, 2000 ft., Johnson, 649! Tngo, 

 Baumann, 465 ! Lagps : Ikoraclu, Schlechter, 13(X)0; interior, Boidand ! 



liower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Don! Gaboon: near Libreville, 

 Schlechter, 12823. Angola: Golungo Alto; forests of the ln<rher niou .tjiins of 

 Queta, Welwitsch, 4228 ! 



Soutb Central. Lunda : Luhn River, Pogge, 1249 ! 



The Angolan specimens have smaller leaves and panicles, })rob:ibly raused by the 

 drier climate, but show no other difference. 



13. M. profasa, i\\ E. h\ in Kew BuUelin, 1^^05, J.".s. A 

 vigorous climber, with a hollow glabrous stem. Leaves thin ; })etioIe 

 1-2 in. long; blade 3-5 in. long, 2-3^ in. broad, elliptic-cordate, cuspi- 

 date or acuminate, with a cusp \ in. long, glabrous on both sides ; b:usal 

 lobes broadly rounded, sometimes overlapping, with a narrow sjiins i in. 



