296 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE® (BROWN). [ Kanahia. 
Xysmalobium the flowers are always strictly umbellate, all radiating from one point ; 
in Kanahia they are never strictly umbellate, but are spirally arranged around the 
gradually elongating top of the peduncle and progressively develop, a few at a time. 
Coronal-lobes fleshy, solid, with a short entire or bifid 
beak extended over the staminal-column ‘ . 1. K. laniflora. 
Coronal-lobes complicate, with the fissure or cavity ex- 
tending 4—% of the way down. 
Coronal-lobes as long as or slightly exceeding the 
staminal-column; pollen-masses 2-3 lin. long, 
turgid . c : : : : : 
Coronal-lobes usually shorter than the  staminal- 
column ; pollen-masses 4 lin. long, compressed. 3. K.consimilis, 
2. K. glaberrima. 
1, K. laniflora, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 40. Stems 4-5 ft. 
high, branching, glabrous. Leaves ascending or somewhat spreading, 
with a cluster of short bristles or teeth in their axils and along the 
rudimentary stipular line connecting their bases; petiole 14-3 lin. long; 
blade 24-6 in. long, 2-6 lin. broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 
gradually tapering to an acute point, acutely narrowed into the petiole, 
quite glabrous, not revolute at the margin. Peduncles 1-2 in. long, 
rather stout, glabrous, lateral at the nodes, many-flowered at the apical 
part, which becomes raceme-like from the gradual development of the 
flowers ; lowest bracts 2-9 lin. long, the rest 14-3 lin. long, linear or 
subulate, acute, glabrous, mostly with minute bristle-like teeth at their 
base, like those in the leaf-axils ; pedicels 3-1 in. long, glabrous. Sepals 
2-3 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 7—9 lin. in diam., 
campanulate, 5-lobed to half-way down or beyond; lobes 4-5 lin. long, 
ascending, ovate, acute, glabrous outside, more or less densely woolly 
within along the borders. Coronal-lobes arising 2 lin. above the base 
of the staminal-column and reaching to its summit, 2 lin. long, erect, 
stout, turgid-oblong, fleshy, solid, not in the least complicate, abruptly 
contracted at the apex on the inner side into a simple or bifid subulate 
tooth or beak, inflexed over the tips of the anthers. All the lobes are 
connected to one another at their base by very obtuse minute flaps that 
form five pockets, enclosing the basal parts of the anther-wings- 
Staminal-column 23-3 lin, long ; anther-appendages broadly subcordate- 
ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the apex of the style. Pollen-masses 
(excluding the caudicles), $ lin. long, } lin. thick, turgid, not compressed. 
Follicles 2-21 in, long, lanceolate, acuminate into a beak, glabrous, 
scrobiculate, but not echinate. Seeds 2 lin. long, ovoid, tapering into a 
short beak, channelled on one side, very turgid on the other, smooth, 
crowned with a tuft of hairs.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzen- 
fam. iv. ii. 233, not of Decne. K. Delilii, Decne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 
2, ix. 330, in DC. Prod. viii. 537; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 345 
Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 342; Schweinfurth in Hohnel, Zum 
Rudolph-See u. Stephanie-See, Separatabdr. 8 ; Schweinfurth & Volkens, 
Liste Pl. Somalis, 10 ; Martelli, Flor. Bogos. 54; Penzig in Atti Congr. 
Bot. Internaz. 1892, 349; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 323, 12 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iv. ii. 233, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 
