Asclepias. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 321 
glabrous. Corolla 7-9 lin. in diam., rotate-campanulate ; lobes 4 lin. 
long, 3 lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, subacute, glabrous, with one margin 
very minutely ciliolate. Coronal-lobes arising about 4 lin. above, or 
decurrent to, the base of the staminal colamn, and attaining the same 
level, 24 lin. long, ascending-spreading, complicate, truncate, the inner 
angles of the inflexed sides scarcely produced; no tooth within. 
Anther-appendages ovate, obtuse. Follicles (unripe only seen) 2 in. long, 
-1in. thick, inflated-ovate, acute, smooth and glabrous.—Gomphocarpus 
semiamplectens, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 128, and in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 236; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 
i. 198, 
_ Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; ina thicket near Cazella, Wel- 
witsch, 4188! near Malange, Mechow, 328. 
South Central. Congo Free State: near Mukenge, Pogge, 1006, 1077, 1141. 
and between the Lubilash and Lomami Rivers, Pogge, 1037 (cx Schumann). 
3. A. glaucophylla, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455. A stout 
herb with milky juice, about 3 ft. high, glabrous in all parts. Stems 
tin. or more in diam. Leaves opposite, sessile, 34-6 in. long, 1-2} in. 
broad, elongate-ovate, acute or somewhat acuminate, cordate, with 
rounded stem-clasping lobes at the base, glaucous, blueish-green ; 
margins flat,smooth. Umbels several, lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, 
7-15-flowered ; peduncles 1-1} in. long; bracts 24—4 lin. long, $ lin, 
long, linear, acute; pedicels 8-15 lin. long. Sepals 3 lin. long, 1-14 lin. 
broad, oblong, subacute, ciliate, reflexed. Corolla reflexed, 5-lobed 
nearly to the base, light green; lobes 44-6 lin. long, 23-4 lin. broad, 
subobtuse, very minutely ciliate along one margin. Coronal-lobes 
arising } lin. above the base of the staminal-column and reaching to 
the same level, erect, 2-21 lin. long, 14-24 lin. broad across the side, 
compressed-cucullate, broadly oblong or subquadrate in outline, truncate 
at the top with the apical angle of the sides produced intoa short acute 
point, no tooth or horn within, yellowish-brown. Staminal-column 24 
in. long ; anthers somewhat deltoid-oblong, their horny margins slightly 
dilated at the base, their appendages 1 lin. long, $ lin. broad, oblong, 
obtuse, inflexed over and concealing the truncate apex of the style, 
Which is about 1 lin. in diam. Follicles 34 in. or more long, about # in. 
thick, fusiform, obtuse, with a few stout compressed linear obtuse pro- 
cesses 2~4 lin. long in the upper part.—S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 
an. Gomphocarpus glaucophyllus, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 
Beibl. 45, 19 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Rhodesia; plentiful near Salisbury, 
on. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 57! Rand, 185 (ex S. Moore). 
Also in Sonth Africa. 
. 4. A. fulva, V. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 254. Plant 1-2 ft. 
high. Stems simple with a close pubescence of minute, jointed, rust- 
coloured hairs, Leaves ascending or suberect, the lower with petioles 
= lh. long, the uppermost subsessile; blade 14-3 in. long, 3-1 in. 
broad, oblong, subacute, emarginate or subcordate at the base, both sides 
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