322 LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEH (BROWN). | Asclepias, 
covered with minute rust-coloured jointed hairs when young, glabrescent 
with age, scabrid on the margins. Umbels lateral and terminal, 6-8- 
flowered ; peduncles 1-2 in. long, pubescent like the stem, as are also 
the 6-9 lin. long pedicels. Sepals 3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
spreading or reflexed, rusty-puberulous. Corolla reflexed-rotate, about 
1 in. in diam.; lobes 5 lin. Jong, 3 lin. broad, ovate, subacute or sub- 
obtuse, with the apex minutely bifid, rusty-puberulous and purple- 
brown on the outside, dull orange within. Coronal-lobes arising 1 lin, 
above the base of the staminal-column and reaching to its top, 2 lin, 
long, compressed, subquadrate viewed sideways, with the inner side 
longest, truncate at the base, obliquely truncate at the top, produced 
over the tips of the anthers into an acuminate beak, which is split to its 
base like a pen-nib, otherwise the lobe is solid, yellowish with a narrow 
dark purple projecting rim around the top and base; a narrow wing 
runs down from the beak near the inner margin on each side. Staminal- 
column 3 lin. long. Anther-appendages rounded, obtuse, inflexed over 
the apex of the style.—A. rubicunda, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 
336. Gomphocarpus rubicundus, K. Schum, in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 382. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Buddu, on a dry plateau, Scott-Elliot, 7443! on dry 
grassy hills on the east side of Luke Albert Edward, Scott Elliot, 8088! and with- 
out precise locality, Wilson, 112! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Unyika ; Uwurungu Mountain, 7200 
ft., Goetze, 1456 (ex Schumann). 
Remarkable for its close rusty pubescence. 
5. A. lineolata, Schlechter in Jowrn. Bot. 1895, 336 partly. 
Roots fleshy, fusiform, fascicled. Stems stout, 2-4 ft. high, more oF 
less hairy in the upper part. Leaves ascending or spreading; petiole 
4-2 in. long; blade 2-44 in. long, ?-2 in. broad, or the uppermost 
sometimes only 1—} in. broad, oblong, ovate-oblong, or occasionally the 
upper ones linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, apiculate, cordate, emar- 
ginate or rounded at the base, both sides scaberulous, narrowly revolute 
and scabrous along the margins. Umbels several, lateral and terminal, 
pedunculate, 4-10-flowered ; peduncles 3-5} in. (usually 2-38 in.) long; 
more or less pilose; bracts 14—4 lin. long, pilose ; pedicels 1_]} in. long, 
pilose. Sepals 3-34 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, or attenuate, pilose. 
Corolla about 1 in. or rather more in diam., rotate or the lobes slightly 
reflexed ; lobes 5-6 lin. long, 3-34 lin. broad, oblong-ovate, acute, pilose 
or puberulous on the back, more or less ciliolate, veined with rosy- 
purple on a whitish green ground, varying from white to purple (Wel- 
witsch). Coronal-lobes arising from the base of the staminal-column 
and } shorter or almost equalling it in length, 24~3 lin. long, purple, 
spreading, closely complicate, adnate to the column up to the anthers, 
produced at the apex into a stout, conical, complicate, erect or incurvé 
tooth or point, between which and the base the margins rise into broa 
deltoid obtuse erect teeth, with their inner edges pressed against 
back of the anthers, with a wing-like flap or ridge forming 2 seu 
pocket on each side of the lobe at the base of the apical tooth. ee 
appendages very broad, rounded, inflexed over the apex of the style 
