Glossonema. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 
Annual; leaves linear ; flowers solitary 1. G. lineare. 
Perennial ; flowers not solitary. 
Style slightly exceeding the anthers; apical part 
shortly conical. 
Leaf-blade 3-5 in. long, linear or linear-lanceolate. 2. G. nubicum, 
Leaf-blade 3-13 in. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
rarely linear-lanceolate . : : 
Style not exceeding the anthers, truncate at the top . 
Leaves petiolate ; coronal-lobes subulate, curved at 
the apex like a fish-hook . : : : 
Leaves subsessile; coronal-lobes broad, obtuse or 
emarginate . 
3. G. boveanuin. 
4, G. Revoili, 
5. G. Thruppii. 
1. G. lineare, Deene. in DC. Prod. viii. 555. A slender annual. 
Stem erect, unbranched, 6-15 in. high, slightly rough with minute 
points, drying pale. Leaves spreading; petiole 1-2 lin. long; blade 
{+2 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute at both 
ends, glabrous, but usually rough with minute points on the revolute 
margins and midrib beneath. Flowers solitary in one axil of a pair of 
leaves, decurved; pedicels }—} lin. long. Sepals 4-3 lin. long, lanceo- 
late, acute, glabrous. Corolla 1} lin. long, glabrous; lobes twice as 
long as the tube or rather more, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. _Coronal- 
lobes subulate, one quarter as long as the corolla-lobes and arising at the 
top of the corolla-tube. Anthers terminated by a short soft subulate 
mucro. Style exserted about 5}; in. beyond the anther-appendages ; 
apical part stout, conical, acute. Follicles 3-4 in. long, linear-terete, 
acute, erect, smooth and glabrous, drying whitish. Seeds linear-oblong, 
entire, both sides finely scrobiculate.—Conomitra linearis, Fenzl in 
Endlicher Nov. Stirp. Dec. 66; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 
flanzenfam. iv. ii. 226. 
Wile Land. Kordofan: Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 78: and without precise 
locality, Kotschy, 35! 
2. G. nubicum, Decne. in DO. Prod. viii. 555. A dwarf herb 
6-12 in. high, branching from the base, with a creeping rootstock 
(Barter); stems, petioles and the lower or both sides of the leaves 
pubescent with short white curved hairs. Leaves numerous, spreading 
or ascending ; petiole 2-4 lin. long ; blade 3_5 in. (usually 1-2 in.) long, 
1}-5 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse and 
apiculate, often more or less sinuate or undulate along the margins. 
Flowers 2-6 together in sessile subaxillary cymes ; pedicels 3-1 
lin, long. Sepals 1-1} lin. long, nearly as long as the corolla, 
pubescent. Corolla about 2 lin. in diam., white (Barter) ; tube cam- 
Panulate; lobes as long as the tube, spreading, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
With a few hairs on the back, otherwise glabrous. Coronal-lobes about 
_ 48 long as the corolla-lobes, ovate in the basal part, with incurved 
margins, abruptly contracted at the middie into a subulate point, or 
‘ometimes lanceolate, acuminate, both forms occurring 1n parr 
ower. Anther-appendages membranous, broadly ovate or subquadrate, 
