48C Lxxxv. AscLEPiADE^. (brown). [Carolluma. 



tapering into long narrow tails, spreading, glabrous on both sides, 

 sparingly ciliate with long vibratile clavate pur^-lo hairs. Outer 

 coronal-lobes | lin. long, shortly united at the base, spreading, subquad- 

 rate, bifid, with short divergent teeth at the apex, or sometimes nearly 

 truncate, with the teeth horizontally spreading and somewhat resemb- 

 ling the letter T ; inner coronal-lobes f-1 lin. long, linear, obtuse, 

 incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not exceeding them, adnate 

 at the base to the outer corona. 



AfXozamb. Blst. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Namasi, Cameron, 25! 



14. C, lateritia, N. E. Br. Stems not seen, "grows to D in. 

 high " (Lu(jard). Pedicels about | in. long, about 1^- lin. thick, glabrous. 

 Sepals 2^?} lin. long, |-1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. 

 Corolla .^>-o^ in. in diam., rotate, very deeply 5-lobed, glabrous on both 

 sides, finely papiilate-rugulose on the inner face, ciliate with long 

 vibratile clavate purple hairs to the tips of the lobes, " brick-red " 

 (Lugard) ; lobes 1 J in. long, 5 lin. broad at the base, thence gradually 

 tapering to an acute apex. Outer coronal-lobes with their margins 

 slightly adnate at the base to the base of the inner coronal-lobes, Ij^^i 

 lin. long, ]§ lin. broad, cuneately subquadrate, irregularly denticulate 

 at the subtruncate recurved apex, and with 5 closely placed ridges or 

 keels on the middle of the upper side, glabrous, apparently brick-red, 

 with a broad yellow stripe down the middle ; inner coronal-lobes If lin. 

 long, unequally 2-horned, glabrous, brick-red ; inner horn 1-1:^ 

 lin. long, erect, subulate ; outer horn J-| lin. long, erect, subulate. 



XVSozamb. Sist. Beclmanaland : Northern Kalaiiari ; on tlie Botletle Flats, 

 near Tame's and Rakop's Village-:, at about 3000 ft., Lugard, 307 ! 



This is exceedingly like the S. African C lutea, N. E. Br., but its flowers are 

 very much larger and different in colour. Captain Lugard notes on his label that it 

 is " foul scented." 



15. C. valida, N. E. Br. in Kew Bidletm, 1895, 264. Stems 

 glabrous, 4 in. or more high, 7-10 lin. thick, not including the teeth, 

 probably 4-angled ; angles with very stout conical acute spreading 

 teeth h-^ in. long and J in. thick at the base. Pedicels 4-5 lin. long, 

 glabrous. Sepals 8J lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, recurving 

 at the tips, glabrous. Corolla very deeply 5-lobed ; lobes 8-9 lin. long, 

 2J lin. broad at the base, gradually tapering in a nearly straight line 

 to an acute apex, rugose on the face, ciliate with long clavate vibratile 

 purple hairs, otherwise glabrous, apparently dark brown-purple. Outer 

 coronal-lobes 1^ lin. long, shortly adnate at the base to the sides of the 

 inner coronal-lobes, oblong lanceolate and acute, with a small blunt 

 tooth on each side, or linear-oblong and subtruncate, 2-3-keeled down 

 the inner face ; beneath them on the very short staminal-column are 5 

 small tubercles ; inner coronal-lobes 1^ lin. long, connivent-erect, flat, 

 broadly linear, rather deeply bifid at the apex, with the tips apparently 

 recurving, crested at the base. 



Locality uncertain, collected by Dr. Holuh either in the Zambesi region or in the 

 Transvaal. 



