310 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEX (BROWN). [ Yysmalobium. 
flat on the inner face, with a nose-shaped median keel down the upper 
half, on each side of the abrupt lower end of which is a short trans- 
verse keel running to the margin, basal part also slightly keeled. 
Staminal-column 13-2 lin. long and as much in diam. at the base, 
broadly conical; anther-appendages broadly subcordate-ovate, subacute, 
inflexed over the depressed apex of the style; anther-wings } lin. broad 
and much projecting at the base.—WSchizoglossum tricorniculatum, K. 
Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 121, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 233; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 192. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 4189! Malange, 
Mechow, 355, 402! San Salvador; in the Steppe near Tunis, Biittner, 406 (ex 
Schumann). 
South Central. Lunda: near Mussumba, Pogge, 379, 380 (ex Schumann). 
I have much hesitation in retaining this as specifically distinct from X. sessile, 
Decne. I can discover no difference in the flowers, except that those of X. andon- 
gense are rather smaller in all their parts than those of X. sessile, and the corolla 
does not appear to be reflexed. In the form of the leaves and in indumentum how- 
ever, the two specimens of X. andongense which I have examined distinctly differ 
from the type specimen of X. sessile. In X. andongense the hairs are minute, 
adpreszed, mostly curved, and somewhat scattered, not at all dense, whilst in X. 
sessile they are rather long, very spreading and dense. 
15. KH. Cecilz, V. H. Br. Stem erect, 1-14 ft. high, stout, 
about 2 lin. thick, simple, laxly leafy, puberulous along 2 lines 
in the upper part, red. Leaves spreading, 1-1? in. apart; petiole 
1}-2 lin. long; blade 13-23 in. long, 6-10 lin. broad and probably 
larger, oblong, with parallel sides, obtuse, apiculate, shortly cuneate at 
the base, coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, flat, smooth on the margins, 
bluish-green, with a red midrib. Umbels sessile at the upper nodes, 
2—4-flowered ; pedicels 7-9 lin. long, puberulous down oneside. Sepals 
3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 
large, campanulate, 5-lobed almost to the base, dull green, tinged with 
bronze outside, glabrous; lobes 1 in. long, 5-7 lin. broad, oblong oF 
slightly elliptic-oblong, very obtuse, incurved-erect, recurved at the 
apex when alive, suberect or slightly spreading when dried. Coronal- 
lobes inserted 2 lin. above the base of the staminal-column and over- 
tupping it by half their length, 34-4 lin. long, erect, fleshy, laterally 
compressed, falcate-oblong in side view, perfectly truncate at the top, 
which is produced over the top of the staminal-column into @ short 
beak, rounded at the base, slightly channelled down the inner face, 
which is destitute of keels or teeth, green, with a yellowish ape» 
according to a drawing of the flower. Staminal-column 344 lin. long, 
the anthers and filamental-tube being about equal in length, stout, 
constricted under the anthers, dilated at the base ; anthers subquadrate, 
with membranous orbicular appendages, inflexed over the rim 0 the 
depressed-truncate apex of the style. Fruit not seen. 
eee. Dist. Rhodesia: plentiful at Salisbury, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 
