306 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). | Xysmalobium. 
6-8-flowered; bracts 2—3} lin. long, subulate, pubescent; pedicels 
5-10 lin. long, subtomentose. Sepals 34-4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 
erect, as long as or exceeding the corolla-lobes, narrowly lanceolate, 
acute, shortly hairy, campanulately spreading. Corolla 5 lin. in diam., 
campanulate, 5-lobed almost to the base; “dull whitish-violaceous” 
(Welwitsch); lobes 3 lin. long, 13-2 lin. broad, ovate, subacute and 
slightly complicate at the apex, minutely pubescent on the back. 
Coronal-lobes arising at the base of the staminal-column and about 
equalling it in length, 14 lin. long, connivent-erect, thick and fleshy, 
with a short thick stalk and a rhomboid blade, obtuse or subacute, 
with a grooved rhomboid depression on the back, and a keel from each 
side on the inner face directed downwards and meeting at the centre, 
enclosing a diamond-shaped area that is obtusely keeled down the 
middle or convex, the sides of the stalks confluent at the base under 
the very broad horny wings of the anthers; anthers connivent, their 
appendages roundish-ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the apex of the style. 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 682. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in sandy pastures among bushes near 
Ferrao da Sola, Welwitsch, 4193! 
9. KX. trilobatum, V. #. Br. Stem erect, simple, stout, softly 
hairy. Leaves spreading or ascending; petiole 2-3 lin. long; blade 
4-6 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, elongate-ovate-lanceolate, sometimes very 
narrow and attenuate, acute, subcordate at the base, more or less un- 
dulate, somewhat scabrous above, at first pubescent beneath, becoming 
slightly scabrous. Umbels several, lateral and terminal, mostly clustered 
at the top of the stem, 10-15-flowered ; peduncles erect, 3-1} in. long, 
villous-tomentose; bracts 4-5 lin. long, subulate or filiform, shortly 
villous ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long, villous-tomentose. Sepals 4 lin. long; 
1 lin. broad, exceeding the corolla, lanceolate, acuminate, flat, villous: 
pubescent on the back, glabrous within. Corolla campanulate, 5-lo 
nearly to the base ; lobes erect, 3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, ovate, obtuse 
pointed, concave in the lower part, recurved-spreading at the tips, du 
purple, sparsely pubescent outside on the apical half, glabrous within. 
Coronal-lobes # lin. long, 1 lin. broad, sessile at the base of the een 
column, erect, reaching only to the base of the anthers, fleshy, broadly 
subreniform-deltoid, obtuse, sometimes with a faint constriction ™ 
below the apex, flat, with their margins recurved at the base. Stamint” 
column 2 lin. long, its filament part about 3 lin. long.—Woodia trilobata, 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 337. 
Wile Land. Uganda: Kavirondo; Nandi Range, in wet places, 7000-8000 ft 
Scott-Elliot, 6877! 
Schlechter describes tbe coronal-lobes as “ trilobulate, with suborbicular oer 
lobules, subequal in size, the intermediate one erect, the lateral divaricate- ‘; 
not find them so in the numerous flowers of his type that 1 have exami vial 
sides of the lobes at their base are abruptly bent back, so that upon @ suPé cone 
examination they may appear as lateral lobules, and sometimes there is @ sei sale 
striction on each side just below the apex, which thus appears to be slightly proe™ 
but I have seen none that I should describe as trilobulate. 
