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with the south African monotypic " Chlorocodon. But that genus has dorsal 

 appendages to the corona-scales, and the form of the scales in the other adjacent 

 genera, Raphionacme and Tacazza, with other characters separates them. 

 Cryptolepis, an African and tropical Asiatic genus, includes forms much like 

 our plant in habit, and is closely allied, perhaps as closely as any other genus ; 

 but the stamens have long filaments, and the corona scales are inserted in the 

 tube of the corolla at a distance from the filaments. 



One of the most marked features in our plant is the contortion of the 

 corolla, the edges of the petals forming a series of very prominent threads in a 

 spire. Its other noteworthy characters are the stout bilobed corona scales, the 

 anthers unbearded, and with reflexed apical appendages to the corpuscles, and 

 the wide and short fruit. This in the present state of our knowledge of the 

 family is a distinct genus, but it may prove to be a link connecting Cryptolepis 

 with some of the other genera I have mentioned. 



Etym. koxKo<5, a spiral shell or screw, and avdos, a flower. 

 C. socotranus, Balf. fil. loc. cit. Tab. XLIX. 



Frutex late scan dens, ramis elongatis, ramulis tetragon is leviter puberulo-tomentosis. Folia 

 sessilia elliptica v. late oblonga v. subrotundata 1^-2 poll, longa 1-1£ poll, lata apice 

 obtusa retusa v. emarginata mucronata basi subcordata margine obscure undulata crassi- 

 uscula pennivenia glabra glauca. Paniculas corymbosse 1£ poll, diara. ramulis validis, 

 bracteis subulatis minutis, pedicellis validis subtiliter pubescentibus -jV-g poll, longis. 

 Calyx £ poll, longus extus subtiliter puberulus segmentis margine membranaceis. Corolla 

 £ poll, longa, lobis sursum angustatis £ poll, longis. Folliculi 1£ poll, longi £ poll. diam. 

 jSemina lagenseformia scrobiculata £ poll, longa. 



Socotra. On the Haghier hills, at an elevation over 3000 feet. B.C.S. n. 

 525. 



Distrib. Endemic. 



This is a very handsome shrub. 



4. SECAMONE. 



Secamone, R. Br., in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 55 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL ii. 746. 



A small genus, including mostly twining species, natives of tropical and 

 south Africa, the Mascarene Islands and Madagascar, tropical Asia and 

 Australia. The Mascarene and Madagascar species form a very distinct 

 section in the genus, and to it the Socotran plant belongs. 



S. socotrana, Balf. fil. in Proc. Koy. Soc. Edin. xii. (1883), 79. Tab. L. 



Volubilis ramis ferrugineo-tomentosis ; foliis obovatis ; cymis subsessilibus ; corollae tubo intus 

 lineari-villoso ; stigmate capitato spongioso ; folliculis breviter pubescentibus. 



Frutex volubilis internodiis multo elongatis ramulis ferrugineo-tomentosis. Folia opposita 

 petiolata |— 1^ poll, longa £-£ poll, lata obovata apice emarginata v. rotundata et integra 



