Glossonema. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 293 
4-1] lin. broad, ovate, obovate, oblong, elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceo- 
late, obtuse, retuse or subacute at the apex, broadly rounded, subtrun- 
cate or cuneate at the base. Cymes lateral at the nodes, sessile, umbel- 
lately about 4-7-flowered (5—9-flowered, Franchet); bracts 14-2} lin. 
long, subulate ; pedicels 1-6 lin. long, unequal. Sepals 1-2 lin. long, 
linear or lanceolate, acute. Corolla 3—4 lin. in diam., yellowish ; tube 
1} lin. long, funnel-shaped ; lobes very spreading, 14 lin. long, 1 lin, 
broad, ovate to elliptic-ovate, obtuse, thickened just below the apex, 
with a few short hairs on the back, glabrous within. Coronal-lobes 
arising from the corolla-tube a little above the origin of the staminal- 
column, subulate, acute ; apex incurved or arched over the top of 
the staminal-column, something like a fish-hook. Staminal-column 
3-1 lin. long, arising a little above the middle of the corolla-tube; fila- 
mental part slender ; antheriferous part and the top of the style abruptly 
dilated into a broad flat pentagonal disk; anthers erect or divergent- 
erect, their appendages broad, transverse, obtusely rounded, inflexed 
over the rim of the flat pentagonal apex of the style-—K. Schum. in 
Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 36. G. Elliotii, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1895, 304. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: without locality, Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! Tigieh, 
Révoil ; Dolo, above Bana, Riva, 1129 (ex Schumann). British East Africa: 
Kikumbuliu, Scott-Elliot, 6184 ! 
Also in Socotra, 
G. Elliotii cannot be separated specifically from G Revoili; the flowers are 
dentical in the two, and the leaves of the Somaliland plant are so variable that the 
difference between those of the specimens figured by Francbet and those of @. Zidioti 
sre completely connected by Mrs. Lort-Phillips’s specimen, The anthers are not in- 
Cumbent as stated in the original description of G. Elliotiz. 
5. G. Thruppii, Oliver in James, Unknown Horn of Africa, 320, 
A dwarf herb about 6 in. high, branching at the base. Stem somewhat 
bifariously hairy with short spreading hairs. Leaves subsessile, 1-2} 
in. long, 4-3 in. broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse, apiculate, 
More or less conduplicate and arching-recurved, glabrous above except 
along the midrib and principal veins, ciliate and sparsely beset with 
short. white hairs beneath, lowest leaves almost glabrous. Cymes 
axillary, 3~5-flowered ; peduncles 1-1} lin. long; pedicels 2 lin. long, 
and, as well as the calyx, clothed with short white spreading hairs. 
Sepals 1} lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla subrotate, 4—4} lin. 
in diam., glabrous within, thinly pubescent outside ; lobes very spread- 
ing, 13 lin. long, triangular-ovate, thickened at the obtuse apex. 
Sronal-lobes inserted at the middle of the corolla-tube and reaching to 
about 4 the length of the corolla-lobes, ovate, ovate-oblong, or sub- 
quadrate, truncately obtuse or emarginate at the inrolled apex. 
ther-appendages hyaline, broad, transverse, inflexed. Style not 
®xceeding the anthers, flat and pentagonal at the apex. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: at Ounanuff, James & Thrupp / 
