TROPICAL AFRICAN ASCLEPIADACEE 917 
o be inserted in the genus next X. Cecile N. E. “i — 
sin hier alia markedly smaller yellowish green flow 
shorter coronal leaves _ 7 narrowed in their thiddle Scania 
and strongly clavate 
clepias SiS wrian, sp.nov. Herba adusque ? metralis 
caule erecto valido e rhizomate satis crasso radices robustas emit- 
floribu dicellis saateetis fultis majusculis, bracteis lineari- 
ee piloso-pubescentibus, calycis lobis anguste lineari-oblongis 
extus sparsim piloso-pubescentibus, corolle glabra fere ad 
Basin’ usque divise lobis late obovato- — obtusis, coronz 
new 
margine terminali utrinque in dentem late triangularem column 
staminee breviter applicatum producto intus papillosis dente 
rong antherarum alis prominentibus. 
Congo Free. State, Kitimbo and Lake Moero; Késsner, 
2307, "2806. 
Folia 5°5-95 cm. long., basin versus 2:5-3°5 cm. lat. costa 
media _— crassa valde prominens. Pedunculi erecti, neuer 
10-12 cm. long., superiores 7-9 em. Bractex m. long. 
Peiicelli a 1:5 em. long. Calycis lobi 9-11 mm. ee, Corolle 
lobi patentes, so * Lem. Corone phylla 6°5 mm. long., juxta 
in 
ong. ; Males laterales 1-5 mm ong. Antherarum ale 
3°3 mm. long. olumna staminea were 5 mm. alt. Pollinia 
quadrato-pyriformia, 1-2 mm. long.; caudicule arcuate, °75 mm 
long. ; oe ‘5 mm. long. 
chief difference between this and A. conspicua N. E. Br. 
adie in the shorter and much thicker (as seen in side-view) 
eS leaves of the former with a shorter and relatively broader 
term ti 
petit in compliment to my friend Mr. N. E. Brown, who has 
again in connection with the present ee given me the benefit 
of his knowledge of African Asclepiadee 
Asclepias inflexa, sp. nov. ibiepithachen caule ascenden 
sat robusto superne folioso scabriuscule pubescente deinde dais, 
foliis manifeste petiolatis late oblongis obtusis apice mucronatis 
cato “rotunda tis rigide membranaceis utrinque scabri- 
m 
perpauci sailed s vel pseudotermina bus pedunculatis circa 
8- cre Pens 09 0 seep sat longis ut pedicelli quam se ipsi 
breviores pu ntibus, bracteis lineari-subulatis pedicellis brevi- 
bese 
dabiis: aed or lobis angustissime lineari- lanceolatis acutis pube- 
