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broad, somewhat elliptic-oblong, very obtuse, narrowly reflexed along 
the margins, recurved at the apex. Coronal-lobes arising 1} lin. above 
the base of the staminal-column and overtopping it by about } of their 
length, 3-34 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad measured either way, erect, 
fleshy, narrowly complicate or channelled down the inner face, very 
convex on the back and slightly gibbous at the base, tapering upwards 
into a linear channelled obtuse or bifid point. Staminal-column 3-34 
lin. long; anther-appendages orbicular, erect and applied to the sides 
of the terminal part of the style, which is truncate and depressed or 
crater-like at the apex, and exceeds or is slightly shorter than the anther- 
appendages. Pollen-carriers seated much below the apex of the style.— 
Gomphocarpus lisiunthoides, Decne. in Ann. Se. Nat. 2 sér. ix. 325; K. 
Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 237. G. chironioides, 
Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 562. Xysmalobium fritillarioides, Rendle in 
Journ. Bot. 1894, 162; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 682. 
Lal fritillarioides, Welw. ex Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1894, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in thickets between Mompulla and Hum- 
pata, rare, Welwitsch, 4179! and without precise locality or indication of the 
collector in Herb. Paris ! 
On comparing the type specimen of Gomphocarpus lisianthoides with that of 
Xysmalobium fritillarioides, Rendle, at the British Museum which consists of a 
sketch of Welwitsch’s unique specimen, 1 flower and 1 bud, I find that the two 
are identical. According to Welwitsch the flowers are greenish-yellow. ‘The 
species has the habit and general appearance of Schizoglossum Carsoni, N. E. Br., but 
the coronal-lobes are quite different, being distinctly (although narrowly) com- 
plicate, somewhat as in A. dissoluta, Schlechter, in which the flowers are similar in 
structure. 
In Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 382, Gomphocarpus listanthoides is also recorded by Dr. 
Schumann from the foot-hills of Kivira Valley, in the Umtali district of Upper 
Kondelana, German East Africa (Goetze, 1476), but I have not seen a specimen. 
_ lt. A. semilunata, J. #. Br. Stems 2-5 ft. high, tomentose 
im the upper part. Lower leaves usually 3-4 in a whorl, upper 
Opposite ; petiole 14-4 lin. long; blade 4-7 in. long, }-? in. broad, 
hear or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, more or less rounded or 
somewhat tapering at the base, narrowly revolute along the margins, 
glabrous. Umbels pedunculate, lateral at the nodes ; peduncles 1-1} 
in. long, tomentose; bracts 5-7 lin. long, linear, acuminate, tomentose, 
deciduous ; pedicels 5-11 lin. long. Sepals 2-3 lin. long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, tomentose. Corolla 5-lobea nearly to the base ; lobes 
reflexed, 4-5 lin. long, 24-2} lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subacute, 
glabrous on both sides, ciliate along one margin. Coronal-lobes 
arising 1 lin. above the base of the staminal-column and shorter, 
1-1} En long and the same in breadth, complicate-cucullate, truncate, 
ort straight tooth 
with the apical margin denticulate and having a sb 
directed backwards at about one third the way along it on either 
side within, often from the bottom within arises a small, compressed, 
erect tooth 3-2 the length of the sides of the lobe, sometime 
rudimentary or absent. Follicles large and very inflated 24—3 in. long, 
