F. i\. WILLIAMS. FLORULA GAMBICA. 375 



Farn. 58. ASCLEPIADACE^ 



237. Cryptolepis sanguinolenta Jacks. Ind. Kew. 11. 4(39 (1894), 

 el Schlecht. West Afr. Kautschuk Expetl. 308(1900]. — (Leprieiir). Clim- 

 bing among shrubs. 



Syn. — Pergularia sanguinolenta Lindl. in Bot. Mag. t. 2532(1 . Dec. 1824), 

 et in Trans, Hort. Soc. Yl. 72 (1826); Cryptolepis triangularis N. E. Brown 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXX. 92 (1. Feby. 1894), et in FTA. IV. sect. 1.245. 



Seeds were brought home by George Don in 1822 from Sierra Leone 

 (précise locality notrecorded),and sown in the Royal HorticulturalSociely's 

 garden at Chiswick. The shrub flowered there in August 1823, and was 

 described by Lindley as a Pergularia. The sap is described as blood-red 

 in color. 



238. Kanahia consimilis N. E. Brown in Fl. Trop. Afr. lY. sect. 1 . 

 298. — St, Mary's Island (Bowdich, as ^^ Asclepias laniflora^). Mr. N. E. 

 Brown suggests to me Ihat Ihis plant, which is found on river-baiiks in 

 Ihe Lagos Protectorate, is much more likely to be the plant seen by Bow- 

 dich than is Kanahia lamflor a , which is a plant of German East Africa, 

 not hitherto recorded from West Tropical Africa, and not conti iied to 

 river-banks. Forskal's spécimen on which Robert Brown founded the 

 genus Kanahia is in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



239. Galotropis procera Aiton. — On dry sandy soil at Balle, on 

 Suarra Kunda Creek, in Jokadu district (Lester, n. 51 a N). North bank 

 (Ozanne, n. 3). A stout shrub of variable height, seen ail over the (lambia. 

 Ail parts of it hâve a milky juice. It is very difficult to préserve againsl 

 insects and mildew: and is said to be a good thing for sprains, headaches, 

 and other pains. The leaves are applied warm to the affected part. The 

 native name is «Fouftan«. In the Kew Museum there is a spécimen of 

 di-Jed « Fouf » roots (R.D. Llewelyn, 1895), which may possibly be relerred 

 lo this species. The spécimens, even after ail thèse years, bave a pmigent 

 aromalic smell ; and the label states that they are pounded and scattered 

 by the natives outside their huis, to keep away snakes. They also were 

 sent from Gambia. FTA. lY. sect. 1. 295. 



240. Dsemia extensa Brown. — FT A. lY. sect. 1. 388 (Don, n. 8). 



*^* epigynä: 



Ord. Rubiales 



Fa m. 59. HUB 1 ACE JE 



241. Oldenlandia grandiflora Hiern. — Karngour in Lower 

 Baddibu district (Lester, n. 43 N) ; Torro, on Suarra Kunda Creek, in 

 Jokadu district (Lester, n. 58 Nj; and seen everywhere. 



