452 Lxxxv. AscLEPiADEyE (buown). [Cevopegia.. 



down tiieir face, pale yellowish or whitish, with blackish lines extending 

 a little way down the tube. Outer coronal-lobes arising ^ lin. above the 

 base of the staminal-coiumn, exceedingly shoit, spreading, transverse,, 

 distantly 2-toothed, dark-coloured ; inner coronal-lobes I lin. long, 

 conni vent- erect, slightly clavate, blackish, much overtopping the 

 incumbent anthers. — Engl, tk Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 272, fig. 81, 

 B : Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pi. Welw. i. 695. 



Iio-wer Cruiuea. Angola : Malange, MecJioiv, 4l7 ! Putigo Andongo ; near 

 Quibauga, very rare, TVelivitsch, 4271 ! and without jn'ecise locality, Mechow, 80 

 (ex Schumann), Golungo Alto ; Queta Mountains, near Carengue, Welivitsch, 4270! 



27. C. Giletii, Be Vfild. d- Diirand in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 

 xxxviii. Do. Stem twining, terete, pubescent. Leaves : petiole about 

 2J lin. long; blade about 17 lin. long, 7 lin, broad, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, with scattered hairs above, 

 rather softly pubescent beneath. Umbels subaxiliary, from one axil, 

 sessile, several-flowered ; bracts linear, villous ; pedicels 8 lin. long, 

 villous. Sepals 4 lin. long, linear-subulate. Corolla about 7 lin. long: 

 tube about 4 lin. long, 1 lin. in diam., slightly inflated at the base, sparsely 

 pilose, violaceous at the base and with a narrow violet band around the 

 middle ; lobes about \ in. long, linear, replicate, cohering at the tips, 

 puberulous outside, violaceous, longitudinally striated on the inner face. 

 Corona undescribed. Follicles 1^ in. long, 1 lin. thick, glabrous, 

 longitudinally striated. 



liOiiirer Cruiuea. Congo Free State : Lower Congo ; near DeniLo (Xdembo), 

 Gillet, 



I have not seen this species, wiiicli is closely allied to C. leueotania, K. Sclunn., 

 and (according to the description) only appears to differ in having the corolla-tube 

 pilose outside. 



28. C. papiilata, iV. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 308. Stem 

 twining, about | lin. thick, pubescent all round with short curved 

 hairs. Leaves herbaceous ; petiole J-1 in. long ; blade 1|-2J in. long, 

 1-1 in. broad, elongate-ovate, very acuminate, cordate at the base, v;ith 

 short rounded lobes, densely and minutely pubescent or subtomentose 

 on both sides. Cymes umbel-like, sessile or subsessile, rarely with a 

 very short peduncle, 10-2U-flowered; bracts 2-4 lin. long, linear- 

 subulate, pubescent ; pedicels 4-5 lin. long, slender, pubescent 

 with short spreading hairs. Sepals 3 lin. long, J-| lin. broad, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, pubescent on the back. Corolla 1 in. long, straight, 

 or nearly so, dull green at the basal part of the tube, pallid (wiiitish ?) 

 above, the apical half of the lobes and the margins of their basal half 

 blackish-green ; tube 9-9 J lin. long, ovoid-inflated and 2 lin. in diam. at 

 the base, cylindric and |-J lin. in diam. above, scarcely or not at all 

 dilated at the mouth, glabrous on both sides, but strongly papillate or 

 tuberculate along the veins within the inflated part; lobes 3 lin. long, 

 I lin. broad, erect, connate at the tips, linear, replicate, keeled down 

 the upper part within, glabrous on the back, villous with rather long 

 white hairs within. Outer corona arising J lin. above the base of the 



