332 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Asclepias. 
pedicels 7-11 lin. long, white-tomentose. Sepals 14—2 lin. long, narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, white-tomentose. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the 
base, reflexed, yellow in the dried state ; lobes about 4 lin. long and 2} 
lin. broad, elliptic-cvate, acute, glabrous on both sides, ciliate along one 
margin. Coronal-lobes arising about 2 lin. above the base ot the 
staminal-column and reaching to its summit, apparently dull purple, 
2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, complicate-cucullate, subquadrate, with the 
dorsal margin shorter than the inner margins in side view, so that the 
real apex of the lobe does not rise so high as its inflexed sides, the 
apical angles of the inflexed sides produced into abruptly reflexed falcate 
teeth rising a little above the apical margin of the lobe, no tooth or 
horn within the lobe. Staminal-column 24 lin. long; anther-append- 
ages roundish-ovate, very obtuse, inflexed over the truncate apex of the 
style. Follicles (immature) ellipsoidal with a short beak, scmewhat 
sparsely bristly, glabrous or nearly so.—K. Schum. in Ann, Istit. Bot. 
Roma, vii. 37. 
Wile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent! Somaliland : Golis Range: Darra, 
Surry, Mrs, Lort-Phillips ! Miss Edith Cole ! 
‘The plant collected in Somaliland, on the Ogaden Steppe, Keller, 100, may also 
belong to th's species, but I have seen only a fruitmy specimen. Probably some of 
the specimens referred to Gomphocarpus fruticosus, RK. Br., var. tomentosa, by K. 
“see in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 322, and in Ann, Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 37 belong 
ere. 
21. A. Phillipsiz, V. 2. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 219. A. 
woody, branching shrub. Branches ascending, rather densely pubes- 
cent or subtomentose with minute white curved hairs. Leaves ascend- 
ing, subsessile or with very short petioles, 1}-34 in. long, 3-1 lin. 
broad, linear, acute, mucronate, with very revolute margins, which are 
often rolled back at the midrib, sparsely and minutely pubescent when 
young, soon becoming glabrous. Umbels several, lateral at the nodes 
along the upper part of the branches, pedunculate, 3—6-flowered ; 
peduncles 4-3 in. long, puberulous; bracts caducous, 2$-3$ lin. long, 
linear or subulate, acute, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous ; 
pedicels 44-8 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals about 14 lin. long, linear, 
acute, puberulous. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes 24-23 lin. 
long, 1? lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, subacute, reflexed, glabrous on both 
sides or puberulous towards the base within, ciliate along one margin. 
Coronal-lobes arising 4-1 lin. above the base of the staminal-column 
and reaching to its top, 1-1} lin. long, 3-1} lin. broad, complicate- 
cucullate, subquadrate in side view, with a rather broad falcate 
tuoth, denticulate along its upper margin, reflexed from the apical 
angles of the inflexed sides and contained within the cavity, n0 median 
tooth within. Staminal-column 14-2 lin. long; anther-appendages 
short, transversely oblong or subreniform, obtuse, denticulate, inflex ed 
over the truncate apex of the style. Follicles about 2 in. long, 4-} ip. 
thick in the basal part, lanceolate, tapering into a beak, setose, ve 
minutely and rather sparsely pubescent all over or the bristles glab- 
rous. Seeds 2 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, ovate, concave on one side, 
