Asclepias. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 329 
in the upper part. Leaves opposite, ascending or spreading ; petiole 
2-3 lin. long; blade 2-4 in. long, 34-10 lin. broad, lanceolate, very 
acute, mucronulate, cuneately acute at the base, glabrous on both sides, 
but with the petiole and sometimes the midrib more or less puberulous. 
Umbels 6-10-flowered ; peduncles sublateral or subaxillary, 1-1} in. 
long, whitish-pubescent at the top; pedicels 7-12 lin. long, whitish- 
pubescent. Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. Co- 
rolla 5-lobed nearly to the base; lobes reflexed, about 3 lin. long, 
2-21 lin. broad, ovate, subobtuse, glabrous on both sides, but 
ciliate along one margin within, white. Coronal-lobes arising }—j lin. 
above the base of the staminal-column and nearly or quite reaching 
to its top, about 13 lin. long, complicate, subquadrate in side view, 
apical angles of the inflexed sides shortly produced above the 
other part of the lobe into a broad subtruncate lobule, usually pro- 
duced into an erect tooth on the dorsal side, narrowly winged down 
the inner margins, no tooth within. Staminal-column about 23 lin. 
long ; anther-appendages transverse,somewhat semicircular, inflexed over 
the margin of the depressed apex of the style. Follicles 14-2} in. 
long, 14-2 in. in diam., solitary, inflated, subglobose or obliquely ovoid, 
obtuse, puberulous and covered with long soft bristles. —Gomphocarpus 
physocarpus, E. Meyer, Comm. 202; Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 558; 
K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 236 ; in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 322. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Leikipia, 6800 ft., Thomson ! Uganda 
Protectorate: between Eldoma Ravine und Upper Mau Platean, 7000-8000 ft., 
Whyte ! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, Marungn, 4900 ft., 
olkens ! 
Also in South Africa and the Cape Verd Islands, Tie tropical specimens I have 
seen being without fruit, I have described the follicles trom South Afr can 
Specimens, 
The plant enumerated as Gomphocarpus physocarpus by K. Schumann in Ann. 
Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 37, collected in Somaliland by Riva (108, 109, 1557, 1601), is 
probably a different species. 
_ lV. A. pubiseta, V. £. Br. A branching shrub ; branches purplish, 
minutely tomentose. Leaves ascending or spreading; petiole $—2 lin. long; 
blade 23-6 in, long, 1-24 lin. broad, lineer, acute, mucronate, glabrous 
on both sides or with the midrib puberulous beneath, and sometimes 
Sparsely and minutely puberulous above. Umbels pedunculate, 9—«- 
flowered, lateral at the nodes ; peduncles 4-1} in. long, puberulous ; 
pedicels 4-1 in. long, puberulous. Sepals 2-3 lin. long, 4-1 lin. broad, 
lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla about 1 in. in diam., rotate, 5-lobed 
hearly to the base; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, acute, purplish outside, 
pale greenish within. - Coronal-lobes arising much above the base of 
the staminal-column and reaching to its top, complicate, oblong in side 
view, truncate at the base and apex, with horizontally reflexed teeth from 
the apices of the inflexed sides, half as long as the upper margin of 
the lobe, no tooth within. Follicles 24-3 in. long, { 1D. thick, ovoid- 
