406 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE^ (bROWN). [Ei 



locreuocia. 



red. Oiiter coronal-lobes J lin. long, arising J lin. above the base of the 

 1 lin. long staminal-column, spreading, subrectangular, bifid, concave ; 

 inner coronal-lobes J lin. long, linear, acate, truncate or slightly 

 broadened and bifid at the apex, longer than the anthers, closely applied 

 to their backs and connivent over them. Follicles G-6J in. long, 2-2J 

 lin. thick, linear, tapering into a slender beak at the apex and into a 

 stipe at the base, very slightly torulose. Seeds J in. long, 1 lin. broad, 

 much rounded on one face, deeply concave on the other, glabrous, 

 crowned with a tuft of hairs. — B. torulosa, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 327, not of Decne. 



Mozazub. Blst. British Central Africa: Nyasalaiid ; Shire Higlilands, 

 Buchanan, 205 ! Namasi, Cameron ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 455 I 



2. R. splendida, K. Schujii. in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. -460. Stem 

 twining, rather stout, If -2 lin. thick in the flowering part, villous. 

 Leaves membranous ; petiole 21-2J in. long, villous ; blade 4J-6 in. 

 long, 2|-4 in. broad, ovate, with a long acutely acuminate point, cordate 

 at the base, 7-9-nerved,puberulous on both sides. Flowers collected into 

 subglobose subumbellate fascicles ; pedicels 4J-9 lin. long. Sepals 

 1|- lin. long, subulate, glabrous. Corolla broadly tubular, somewhat 

 dilated at the base, in the living state whitish-green outside, orange-red 

 within, in the dried state the lower part yellowish and the upper reddish- 

 brown ; tube 5 J lin. long ; lobes o|- lin. long, subulate. Inner coronal- 

 lobes oblong, obtuse, shorter than the anthers. Staminal-column 1 lin. 

 long. 



IVSozaml). Sist. German East Africa: Uhehe ; near Makombe, 5900 ft., 

 Goetze, 681. 



I have not seen this species, which is said to differ from R. profiisa, N. E. Br., 

 in its much richer inflorescence and more copious indumentum. 



46. BRACHYSTELMA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 781. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate, saucer-shaped, or with a short cam- 

 panulate tube, 5-lobed ; lobes free or connate at their tips, valvate or 

 replicate- valvate in bud. Corona double, arising from the staminal- 

 column, very variable ; outer corona of 5 spreading or erect bifid lobes, 

 alternating with the anthers, often adnate to the inner coronal-lobes 

 and appearing to form one series with them in the form of lateral teeth, 

 or more or less annular or cup-shaped at the base, 10-toothed and often 

 wdth the teeth of two adjacent lobes closer together than are the teeth 

 of the same lobe, rarely reduced to a fleshy ring without evident teeth 

 or lobes ; inner corona of 5 lobes incumbent on the backs of the anthers 

 and sometimes produced beyond them into long erect tips, often dorsally 

 adnate at their base to the outer corona or connected to it by fleshy 

 partitions. Staminal-column arising near or at the base of the corolla ; 

 anthers inflexed or incumbent upon the apex of the style. Pollen- 

 masses horizontal or ascending, solitary in each anther-cell, with a 

 pellucid margin at their apex, attached in pairs by very short 



