330 LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). | Asclepias. 
lanceolate, attenuate into a beak, setose, pubescent or subtomentose 
all over, including the sete, with spreading white hairs, at least when 
young.—Gomphocarpus purpurascens, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 38, 
t. 69; K.Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 236. G. fruti- 
cosus, var. purpureus, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 129; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 341; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 
1892, 349. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: among Olive bushes from Geleb to Bambit Valley and 
on Lalamba Mountain, near Keren, ex Penzig. Abyssinia: Chelicut, Petit (ex 
Richard); Tigre; between Mai Gouagoua and Debradina, Dillon § Petit, 24! Shireh 
Province, Dillon & Petit! Samen; near Jaja, Schimper, 1854 (ex Engler), Wadela 
district, Steudner, 758, 759 (ex Engler), and without precise locality, Schimper, 79! 
This is a somewhat imperfectly known species, of which I have not seen flowers 
and have compiled my account of them from Richard’s description and figure. 
German authors have placed it under A. fruticosa, Linn., from which it is certainly 
very distinct and more nearly resembles 4. flavida, N. E. Br., from which the very 
hairy bristles on the fruit will at once distinguish it. There is already an 4. 
purpurascens, Linn, 
18. A. fruticosa, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 216. A shrub 3-10 ft. 
high ; branches erect, pubescent or puberulous. Leaves more or less 
ascending ; petiole 2—4 lin. long; blade 2-6 in. long, 2-9 lin. broad, 
linear to linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, mucronate, or rarely 
aristate, cuneate-acute at the base, narrowly revolute along the margins, 
glabrous or puberulous, especially on the midrib beneath. Umbels 
pedunculate, lateral at the nodes and terminal, 6-10-flowered ; pedun- 
cles }-1} in. long, pubescent ; bracts 3—4 lin. long, linear, acuminate, 
deciduous ; pedicels 4—3 in, long, pubescent. Sepals 3 lin. long, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, pubescent. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, white; 
lobes reflexed, 4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous 
on both sides, usually ciliate along one margin, but sometimes without 
cilia. Coronal-lobes arising about } lin. above the base of the 2 lin. 
long staminal-column, and reaching ‘to its summit, erect, complicate- 
cucullate, with the apical angles of the inflexed sides produced into 
recurving teeth, that rise considerably above the general level of the rest 
of the lobe and have their tips incurved towards each other; margins of 
the inflexed sides narrowly winged outside; no tooth or horn within. 
Follicles 2-3 in, long, ovate, attenuate into a beak, setose and minutely 
tomentose, but the sete nearly or quite glabrous.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pi. 
Welw. 1. 685; 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 255. Gomphocarpus frutico- 
sus, R, Br.in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 38; Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 557 ; Bot. 
Mag. t. 16282; Reichb. f. Fl. Germ. xvii. 18, t. 1071 (very bad); B- 
Schum. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 122, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 
322; in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 236 ; in Engl. Jahrb. xxvill. 
456, and xxx. 382; Schweinfurth in Hohnel, Rudolf-See und Steph- 
anie-See, Sonderabdr. 8; Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 148. @. cornu 
tus, Decne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 sér. ix. 324, and in DC. Prod. viii. 557. 
Asclepias crassifolia, Linn. ex Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 572. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; banks of the Rivers Bero and Giraul, 
Welwitsch, 4164! 4165! waste places of Bon Vista, Gossweiler, 87! 
