328 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Aselepias. 
13-1} in. thick, half-moon shaped, straight on the inner face, very 
much curved on the outer, very obtuse, setose-echinate. Seeds ovoid, 
turgid, grooved down one face, tuberculate.—A. denticulata, Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1895, 334; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 685. 
Gomphocarpus semilunatus, A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. ii. 39; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 341. G. physocarpus, K. Schum. in Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322, not of E. Meyer. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Plain of Dembea, between {fak and Gondar, 
Schimper, 1343! Jenda, Steudner, 750! Reb Valley, Steudner, 754 (ex Engler) ; 
Shireh Province, Dillon § Petit, 31! Uganda: Unyoro, Speke & Grant, 606! 
Madi, Speke & Grant, 728! Berkeley Bay, Scott-Elliot, 7089! Kampala, Scott- 
Elliot, 7310!  Ruwenzori; Wimi, 6000-9000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7904! Semliki 
Valley, Scott-Elliot, 8101! Usoga villages, Whyte! Fifth day from Lubwas, 
Whyte! Mau Plateau, 8500-9500 ft.. Whyte! Cultivated ground, Wilson, 51! 
ower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; in palm-swamps on the banks of the 
River Quiapoze, Welwitsch, 4158! Libongo: in swamps around the lakes by the 
banks of the River Lifune, Welwitsch, 4159 ! 
South Central. Congo Free State: Niamniam; Wando, on the River 
Dyagbe, Schweinfurth, 3098 ! 
l. A. curassavica, Linn. Sp. Pl. i215. Stems 2-3 ft. high, 
glabrous, Leaves spreading ; petiole 4-4 in. long; blade 24-54 in. 
long, 4-1} in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate-acute at the base, 
glabrous. Umbels lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 6—12-flowered ; 
peduncles 1-3 in. long, puberulous ; pedicels $—3 in. long, more or less 
puberulous. Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, reflexed, puberulous. 
Corolla reflexed, scarlet-red ; lobes 24-3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, oblong, 
acute, glabrous. Coronal-lobes arising 1 lin. above the base of the 
staminal-column and overtopping it by about 4 of their length, 1}-2 
lin. long, complicate, obliquely truncate, with a horn arising from the 
base within, protruding for half its length, and curved forwards over 
the top of the staminal-column, yellow. Anther-appendages orbicular 
inflexed over the apex of the style. Follicles mostly solitary, 3-35 in. 
long, about 5 lin. thick, lanceolate, acuminate into a beak, and tapering 
mto a stipe at the base, smooth, glabrous. Seeds 3 lin. long, 2 lin. 
broad, elliptic, plano-convex, with a broad thin margin, minutely 
tuberculate-lineate, dark brown.—Bot. Reg. i. t. 81; Loddiges, Bot. 
Cab. t. 349; Decne. in DO. Prod. viii. 566; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. 
Brot. x. 141; K. Schum. in Engi. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. ii. 239. 
_ Upper Guinea. Liberia, Christy! Gold Coast : Aburi, Johnson! Southern 
Nigeria : Old Calabar, Holland, 124! Fernando Po, Mann, 48! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, 1006-2000 ft., Moller & Quintas (ex 
Henriques). 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara ; Tanga, Heinsen, 129! 
Portuguese East Africa : Zumbo, on the Zambesi, Baum, 1004: ! 
‘vo aw pe ‘ ‘i s . 
A native of Tropical America, now widely spread in the tropics. 
10. A. physocarpa, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453. Stem 
2-3 ft. (or more ?) high, branched, whitish-pubescent or subtomentulose 
