Ctyptolepis] lxxxiit. asclepiade-e. G77 



There is in the study set a unique follicle, probably young, which 

 is narrow, hooked at the tip, 1 in. long, and sparingly lepidote- 

 puberulous. 



3. C. Welwitschii Sclileehter in Journ. Bot. xxxiii. p. 301 (1895). 

 Ectadiopsts Welwitschii Baill. /.c, p. 82 (802); K. 8chum. \n 



Engl. Nat. Pllanzeufam. iv. 2, p. 219 (1895). 



HiiLLA. — A shrublet, 1^ to 'Ih ft. high, with white flowers. In 

 thickets amongst short grass ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 4203. 



Var. luteola. 



A subsarmeiitose shrublet, ,V to 1 \ ft. high, with yellowish flowers. 



HuiLLA.— In thickets near Huilla ; fl. 14 Nov. 1859. No. 4205. 



4. C. angolensis Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 



A decumbent-sarnientose or rarely twining shrub, 2 to 4 ft. 

 high, lactescent ; rootstock woody ; young radical shoots erect or 

 ascending, virgate, orange-purplish or sub-cinereous, muriculate- 

 puberulous, rather slender, leafy ; leaves opposite, narrowly 

 elliptical, narrowed towards both ends, subsessile, pointed at the 

 apex, softly and thinly subcoriaceous, glaucescent at least beneath, 

 pulverulent-puberulous along the veins and margin or subglabrous, 

 entire on the narrowly revolute margin, 1 to 2 by i to \ in. broad 

 or I'ather more ; lateral veins rather conspicuous, slender, arching 

 and anastomosing near the margin, reticulate ; nodes tumid ; cymes 

 dense, many-flowered, sessile or subsessile, in one axil each of the 

 terminal and upper pairs of leaves; bracteoles small, rounded, 

 ciliolate ; flowers about \ in, long,, subsessile or on short rather 

 thick pedicels, very agreeably fragrant like jessamine, blunt in 

 the bud ; calyx ^ in. long, deeply 5-lobed ; the segments oval, 

 rounded at the apex, membranous on the margin, minutely 

 pulverulent-puberulous, ciliolate, imbricate in eestivation ; the 

 short tube with 5 shorter trifid glands at the top inside alternating 

 with the segments; corolla \ in. long, white, not quite glabrous 

 outside ; the tube short ; the lobes oval, thin along the margin ; 

 corona-scales subulate, filiform, arising from near the top of the 

 corolla-tube, scarcely as long as its lobes ; stamens glabrous, 

 inserted below the corona-scales on the corolla-tube, distinct; 

 filaments compressed, rather shorter than the deltoid subulate- 

 tipped anthers. 



Huilla.— In sandy thickets near Lopollo ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4204. 



According to Welwitsch's ms. the plant is also met with near Pungo 

 Andongo. A plant, collected by Schweinfurth, 10 July 1870, No. 4050, 

 in Bongo-land, with narrowly lanceolate conical follicles \i to 3^ in. 

 long and said to be a shrub of 2 to 4 ft. with yellow flowers, perhaps 

 belongs to this species. 



5. C. myrtifolia. 



Ectadiopsis myrtifolia Baill., I.e., p. 83 (803). 



Huilla. — A low, sarmentose, twining shrub, or occasionally standing 

 erect, lactescent, with white flowers. In thickets near Lopollo. 

 plentiful ; fl. No. 4206. 



