292 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEH (BROWN). | Glossonema. 
obtuse or slightly emarginate. Style exserted beyond the anther- 
appendages; apical part cylindric or conoid, obtuse or emarginate. 
Follicles 14 in. long, 5 lin. thick, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
echinate, pubescent. Seeds ovate, slightly denticulate on the margin, 
both sides covered with radiating lines of minute points.—K. Schum. 
in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 226. G. boveanwm, Kotschy ex 
Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 555, not of Decne. 
Nile Land. Kordofan: in savannahs at Kohn Mountain, towards Tekele, 
Kotschy, 405 ! 
Upper Guinea. Lagos, Barter! Niger Territory: Borgu; Wawe, Barter 
723! Nupe? Sare, Barter, 3434! Bornu, Vogel, 88! 
3. G. boveanum. Decne in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 2, ix. 335, t. 12, 
jig. D. A dwarf herb 3-10 in. high, branching from the base. Stems 
ascending, more or less pubescent with white hairs. Leaves spreading; 
petiole 1-6 lin. long; blade 4-14 in. long, 14-7 lin. broad, ovate, or 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, cuneately narrowed or broadly 
rounded into the petiole at the base, more or less undulate or crisped on 
the margins, thinly or densely white-pubescent on both sides or glabrous 
above. Flowers 1-3 together, sublateral; pedicels 1-1} lin. long; 
white-pubescent. Sepals 14-1} lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent. 
Corolla-tube 1 lin. long, campanulate ; lobes spreading, 1}—2 lin. long, 
#+1 lin. broad, oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, slightly 
thickened above or subtuberculate near the apex, with the margins 
recurved, glabrous or with a few hairs on the back. Coronal-lobes 
arising a short distance below the sinuses of the corolla, 13-2 lin. long, 
$ lin. broad in the broadly oblong basal half, 3-lobed, with the middle 
lobe long and filiform, or subtruncately or somewhat abruptly contracted 
into a filiform or subulate point, or occasionally filiform-acuminate. 
Staminal-column 1 lin. long; anther-appendages reniform, very 
obtuse. Style protruded for about 3 lin. beyond the anther-appendages ; 
apical part stout, conical, obtuse or shortly bifid. Follicles 1}-? 
in. long, 7-11 lin. thick, ovoid, acute, strongly echinate, minutely 
pubescent or nearly glabrous. Seeds about 2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, 
ovate, flattened, very minutely scaberulous, dark brown.—G. affine, »- 
EK. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 249. Petalostemma Chenopodii, R. Br. 
in Salt Voy. Abyss. Append. Ixiv., name only. 
Mile Land. Perim Island, in the Red Sea, Farmer / Nubia: sea-coast to 
between 3000 and 4000 ft., Bent! Hor Tamanib, Lord! Eritrea: around Saatl, 
Schweinfurth & Riva, 584! Abyssinia: at the foot of mountains by the Hives 
Tacazze, near Gursarfa, 3000-3300 ft. Schimper, 2219! and without precise 
locality, Salt ! 
Also in Egypt and Arabia. 
The specimens collected by Bent demonstrate that the Abyssinian plant I described 
as G. affine cannot be maintained as distinct from G. boveanum. 
4. G. Revoili, Franch. Sert. Somal. 40, t. 3. A dwarf dg 
under a foot high, densely tomentose in all parts except the coro’® 
Leaves numerous, spreading; petiole 2-7 lin. long; blade }—-2 1”. longs 
