298 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). | Kanahia. 
curved over the tips of the anthers and sometimes only level; 
5 small teeth alternate with the lobes at their base are more or less 
incurved and hidden under the basal parts of the anther-wings. 
Staminal-column 2-2} lin. long; anther-appendages roundish-ovate, 
obtuse, inflexed over the apex of the style. Pollen-masses (excluding 
the caudicles) 2-} lin. long, } lin. broad, turgid. Follicles solitary 
(always ?), 2-21 in. long, 4—5 lin. thick, lanceolate, acute or tapering 
into a beak, glabrous. Seeds (not seen mature), ovoid, narrowed into a 
beak, channelled on one side, very turgid on the other, smooth or nearly 
so, crowned with a tuft of hairs.—Gomphocarpus glaberrimus, Oliver in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 110, t. 120; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 
126, and xxviii. 456; in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 236, and 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322. Asclepias glaberrima, Schlechter in 
Journ. Bot. 1895, 335. 
Wile Land. Uganda: near Lake Baringo, Johnston! British East Africa: 
Ukamba; by the River Adi, Hildebrandt, 2609! Nyika country near Mombasa, 
Wakefield ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: among rocks at the Rapids of Cambambe, on the 
River Kuanza, Monteiro ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Umba Valley, Smith! 
Amboni, Holst, 2914! Darema, Scheffler, 130! Khutu; bed of the River Mgas) 
1000 ft., Goetze, 134; and Usukuma ; near the River Simiu, Fischer, 386 (ex 
Schumann) ; Usagara; Marenga Mkali, Speke § Grant! Portuguese East Africa: 
Lower Zambesi, Tete, Kirk ! Matabeleland: bed of the River Shasha, Baines ! 
3. K. consimilis, V. /. Br. Stems, leaves, inflorescence, and 
flowers exactly as in K. glaberrima, except the following characters. 
—Coronal-lobes shorter than the staminal-column, 1-1} lin. me 
oblong, somewhat obliquely truncate at the top, complicate, with the 
apical angles of the inflexed sides more or less produced, acute. roo 
masses long and narrow, 3 lin. long (excluding the caudicles), 7'o—9 he 
broad, much compressed ; caudicles rather longer and more slender t “4 
those of K. glaberrima. Follicles 1-1}, in. long, 4-} in. thick, pas 
or somewhat inflated, ovoid, obtuse or with a short recurved pomt. 
Seeds 1}—14 lin. long. ite} 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: on an island in the Obo-Oba River, M@ let 
Idagun, on river-banks, Rowland! Camerocns: Lobe River, near Batanga, ge 
rocks left bare by low water, Bates, 322! Bipinde, Zenker, 1294! oe 
Albrechts Hohe, Staudt, 603! and without precise locality, Preuss, 1364! : 
This has been distributed from Berlin as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, & eg 
different plant. It is very similar to K. glaberrima in general appearance, ane “an 
pollen-masses and short turgid follicles readily distinguish it. From the are: 
K. Forskalii, Decne. it differs in its much more deeply bifid coronal-lobes and lo : 
narrow compressed pollen-masses, which in K. Forskalii are only } lin. ~ ers 
quite half as broad as long and are also less compressed than in K. consimilis. 
18. XYSMALOBIUM, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. il. 752. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, campanuist 
subrotate or reflexed ; lobes overlapping to the left or rarely subva 
