Asclepias. | LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 323 
Follicles 3-4 in. long, 2 in. in diam., inflated, ellipsoid, obtuse, 
smooth, glabrous.—Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 308; 
Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. 68; Hiern in Cat. Afr, Pl. 
Welw. i. 685. A. lineolatus, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902. 256. 
Gomphocarpus lineolatus, Decne. in Ann. Se. Nat. 2 sér. ix. (1838) 
326, and in DC. Prod. viii. 558; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xvii, 126; in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 322, and in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 237; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 193; 
De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. ii. 41. G. brsacculatus, 
Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, ii. 341. 
Upper Guinea. Niger Protectorate: Nupe, Barter, 1323 A! 
Wile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2000! Bongo: by the River 
Moroko, Schweinfurth, 3982! by the River Lehssi, Schweinfurth, 4000! Uganda : by 
the River Wimi, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7881! British East Africa: near Mombasa, 
Wakefield! Hildebrandt, 1943! 
LowerGuinea. Lower Congo: near Dolo, Schlechter, 12807 (ex Schlechter), 
and without precise locality, Zaurent, 104 (ex Durand sf Schinz), Angola: 
Cazengo ; by the River Luze, Welwitsch, 4182! Pungo Andongo; near rivers and 
in thickets, Welwitsch, 4183! 4184! 4185! 4186! 4187! Huilla; bushy places 
between Eme and Quipungo, Welwitsch, 4192! in the territory of Cahungulu, 
Marques, 203 (ex Henriques) ; Amboella; by the Kubango River, above Knimarva, 
8600 ft., Baum, 460 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Luazi, Luja, (ex De Wild. § Durand). 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 3600-5000 ft., Johnston ! 
Polkens, 2129 ! Portuguese East Africa: Shupanga, Kirk / banks of the River 
Shire near Morambala, Kirk, 74! British Central Africa: Urungu; Fwambo, 
Carson, 41! 61! Nyasaland ; Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte / Mount 
Mlanji, Scott-Elliot, 8668! Purves, 92! Chikala, 2000 ft.. Purves, 9! Shire 
Valley, Waller! Rhodesia: Buluwayo, Rand ! near Salisbury, Rand ! Hon. Mrs. 
Evelyn Cecil, 66! Leshumo Valley, Holub, 550! 
6. A. Schweinfurthii, V. 2. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 253. 
Stems 2 ft. or more high, simple, pubescent. Leaves spreading ; petiole 
1-2 lin. long ; blade 2-34 in. long, 1-24 in. broad, cordate, obtuse, or 
lanceolate-ovate with a cordate base and subobtuse apex, apiculate, gla- 
brous, slightly rough beneath, narrowly revolute and scabrid at the 
Margins. Umbels 4—6-flowered, lateral ; peduncles 1}-5} in. long, 
pubescent ; bracts 3—5 lin. long, linear-subulate, pubescent ; pedicels 
8-12 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 4 lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, 
acute, pubescent. Corolla rotate-campanulate, 1 in. or rather more 1n 
diam. ; lobes } in. long, 3-34 lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, acute, puberulous 
on the back, ciliolate on one margin. Coronal-lobes radiately ascending 
from the base of the staminal-column and attaining to the same level as 
It, 3-34 lin. long, 13-2 lin. high, complicate, produced at the apex 
beyond the broad hatchet-shaped wings or sides of the complicate part 
into a short oblong obtuse lobe. Staminal-column 24 lin. long ; anther- 
appendages subreniform or suborbicular, obtuse, inflexed over the —— 
cate apex of the style.—A. lineolata, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1899, 
336, partly. 
