326 LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). | Asclepias. 
staminal-column and } longer than it, 4 lin. long, erect, gibbous on each 
side at about } the way up from the base, apical half concave-com- 
plicate, oblong-ovate, obtuse, margins just above the middle produced 
over the apex of the style into faleate and acute, or linear-oblong, 
truncate or obtuse teeth, within the middle of the face of the lobe an 
erect, subu'ate and acute, or compressed linear-oblong, obtuse or truncate 
horn, 1} lin. long.. Staminal-column 3 lin. long ; anther-appendages 
orbicular-oblong, obtuse, inflexed over the apex of the style. 
Mozamb,. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland: Magomera, 3000 ft., 
Waller ! near Blantyre, Last! Chikala, 2000 ft., Purves, 74! and without precise 
locality, Buchanan, 441! 553! 
“ Root tuberous, eatable, beans eatable,” Waller. A very handsome species, the 
flowers appear to be carmine or scarlet-red, with a yellow corona. 
12. A. gigantiflora, V. Z. Br. Stems probably attaining a 
height of 2-3 ft., branched at the base. Leaves sessile or subsessile, 
34-64 in. long, 1-34 lin. broad, elongate-Janceolate or linear, acuminate, 
glabrous, pubescent on the revolute margins and midrib. Umbels 
several, lateral and terminal, about 3-flowered ; peduncles 14-4 in. long, 
pubescent along one side. Bracts 2-8 lin. long, linear, acuminate, ciliate ; 
pedicels 14-2 in. long, pubescent along the inner side. Sepals 43-7} 
lin. long, 14-34 lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate, acute, more or less 
pubescent on the back. Corolla rotate, 14-21 in. in diam. or rather 
more ; lobes 7—1 in. long, 4-44 lin. broad, oblong, acute, glabrous on 
both sides. Coronal-lobes arising 1} lin. above the base of the staminal- 
column and much overtopping it, 44-74 lin. long, complicate in the 
apical part, solid below, obliquely truncate, with the inflexed margins 
produced into faleate teeth, curved upwards over the tips of the anthers, 
no horn within.—Stathmostelma gigantiflorum, K. Schum. in Engl. 
Jahrb. xvii. 129, t. 6, fig. A-C; in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 322; and 
in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii, 240 and 241, fig. 70, A-C; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 333. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Makindu Mountains, Scott-Elliot, 6283 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: near Rekoma, Béhm, 24. 
I have not seen the type of this plant ; the petioles are stated to be up to 43 lines 
long, but the leaves are represented as subsessile or with very short petioles 10 the 
figure, The smaller dimensions in the above description are taken from Scott- 
Elliot’s specimen, which appears to be identical with Bohm’s plant except in the size 
of the flowers. 
13. A. lisianthoides, V. H. Br. Stem erect, simple, 10 in. or 
more high, with one puberulous line alternating at the nodes. Leaves 
more or less recurving, subsessile, 21—4 in. long, 1}—2 lin. broad, linear, 
acute, glabrous. Umbels lateral at the nodes and terminal, racemose 
along the upper part of the stem, pedunculate, 3—4-flowered E peduncles 
3—} in. long ; bracts 1} lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 6-7 lin. long; 
glabrous. Sepals 14-13 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute oF 
acuminate, glabrous. Corolla large, lobed nearly to the base, quite 
glabrous; lobes apparently campanulately spreading, 3 in. long, Sach 
