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LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEH (BROWN). [ Asclepias. 
Tips of the coronal-lobes stel- 
lately spreading ; leaves 3-3 
lin. broad . 5 : . 51. dA. pygmea, 
§§§Coronal-lobes glabrous and without 
a tooth or horn within, truncate 
at the top. 
Leaves glabrous; corolla - lobes 
glabrous, whitish within, dull 
purple - brown with white 
margins on the back . . 82. A. Nultir. 
Leaves puberulous beneath; 
corolla-lobes puberulous on 
the back, spotted with brown, 
whitish at thetips . . 33. A. sphacelata. 
1. A. densiflora, V. ZH. Br. Stems somewhat decumbent and 
branching at the base, 14-1} lin. thick, with internodes 3-21 in. long, 
somewhat roughly hairy or subhispid. Leaves shortly petiolate, 
spreading ; petiole 1-2 lin. long, stout, subhispid ; blade 14-23 in. long, 
4-6 lin, broad, gradually tapering from the rounded cuneate sub- 
truncate subhastate or subcordate base to an acute apex, often crisped 
or wavy on the margins, coarsely pubescent on both sides. Umbel 
solitary, terminal,25—50-flowered, dense, 1-1? in. in diam. ; peduncle 
2—5} in. long, stout, coarsely pubescent ; pedicels 4-8 lin. long, his- 
pidulous. Sepals 14 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
thinly pubescent with spreading hairs. Corolla reflexed, glabrous on 
both sides; lobes 24 lin. long, 13-2 lin. broad, ovate, subobtuse, dull 
purple on the apical part. Coronal-lobes arising 1_1 lin. above the base 
of the staminal-column, and overtopping it by about } a lin., 14-1} ln. 
long, about 1 lin. broad across the side at the top, somewhat obovate- 
oblong, obtusely rounded or subtruncate at the top, rather thick and 
fleshy, somewhat clawed in the basal part, complicate above, with the 
inflexed sides shortly produced into an obtuse deltoid tooth over the 
staminal-column, no tooth within, apparently yellow. Staminal-column 
1-1} lin, long; anther-wings exceedingly prominent, broadly triangular 
in outline, ? lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad at the middle ; anther-appendages 
orbicular, about } lin. in diam., inflexed on the depressed-truncate 
apex of the style. 
Mozamb. Dist. Rliodesia; between Salisbury aud Buliwayo, common, Hon. 
Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 78! 
Also in South Africa. 
2. A. semiamplectens, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 3. 659. 
Stems 1}-2 ft. high, simple, moderately stout, glabrous or with two 
puberulous lines, very leafy. Leaves suberect, sessile or subsessile, 
13-3 in. long, 3-21 in. broad, cordate or cordate oblong, obtuse or ear 
acute, subamplexicaul at the base, both sides glabrous. Umbels latera’, 
6—5-flowered ; “ flowers nodding ” (Welwitsch) ; peduncles rather slender, 
glabrous, 14-2 in. long; bracts 14-2 lin. long, subulate, g!abrous; 
a 
pedicels t1—13 in. long, glabrous. Sepals 24—3 lin. long, oblong, obtuse- 
