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very convex on the other, reticulate-rugulose, blackish.—K. Schum. in 
Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 37. A. fruticosa, var. angustissima, 
Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 1895, 335. Gomphocarpus fruticosus, R. Br. 
var. angustissimus, Wngl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 341, partly; K. 
Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 37% G. fruticosus, R. Br., var. 
purpureus, Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 53, not of Schweinfurth. 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Keren, 4500 tt., Beccari, 186! Steudner, 747! Soma- 
jiland : near Coromme, Rivz, 669 (ex Schumann), and without precise locality, Mrs. 
Lort-Phillips / Uginda: Mau; on dry rocks by a river, 6000-8000 ft., Scott- 
Elliot, 6794! Ruwenzori ; in dry sunny places, 6000-7000 ft., Scott-Hiliot, 7667 ! 
Mozamb., Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Buchwald, 177! and 548! 
These probably belong here, but are without flowers. 
This species is nearly allied to 4. setosa, Forsk., a native of Arabia, from which 
it differs in its more slender habit and subqnadrate (not oblong) coronal-lobes. 
Probably Gomphocarpus setosus, A. Rich. Tent. Fl, Abyss. ii. 37 (not of other 
authors), mzy belong here. 
22. A. abyssinica, V. H. Br. Stems 3-4 ft. high, apparently 
annual from a perennial woody rootstock, quite simple, rather stout, 
minutely puberulous. Leaves in whorls of three, or opposite in the 
upper part ; petiole 1-4 lin, long ; blade 35—5} in. long, 2-4} lin. broad, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneately narrowed into the petiole at the 
base, margins revolute, glabrous on both sides or with the midrib puberu- 
lous beneath. Umbels pedunculate, lateral at the nodes along the 
upper part of the stem, 6—9-flowered; peduncles $~1 in. long, pedicels 
9-10 lin. long, all puberulous or minutely tomentose. Sepals 2—2 lin. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous. Corolla somewhat 
reflexed ; lobes about 34 lin. long, 24 lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, acute, 
glabrous on both sides, ciliate along one margin. Coronal-lobes arising 
about, 2 lin. above the base of the staminal-column and reaching 
its top, 14 lin. long, complicate-cucullate, ovate-oblong in side view, 
rounded oa the back, subtruncate or truncate at the top, which is notched 
1n front of the teeth reflexed from the apical angles of the inflexed sides ; 
teeth very minutely erose-denticulate along the upper margin and 
sometimes entirely included within the cavity, or rising slightly above 
the top of the lobe, no median tooth or crest within. Staminal- 
column 2-21 lin. long; anther-appendages semicircular, inflexed over 
the truncate apex of the style. Follicles 24-2? in. long, 7-9 lin. thick, 
ovoid-lanceolate, acuminate into a beak, setose, minutely tomentose, with 
puberulous sete when young, puberulent or nearly glabrous when ripe. 
Ipe seeds not seen but apparently serobiculate or minutely tuberculate. 
—Gomphocarpus abyssinicus, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 101; Decne. in DC. 
Prod. viii, 557; A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. ii. 38; K. Schum. in Engl. 
« Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 236. G. verticillatus, Turez. in Bull. Soc. 
Nat. Mose, 1848, xxi. i. 258. G. fruticosus, var., Vatke in Oecst. Bot. 
Zeitschr, 1876, 146. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Tigre ; Mount Sellenda (Sholoda), near Adowa, 
Quartin Dillon (ex Richard); near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 1674! and without 
precise locality, Schimper, 503! Dillon & Petit, 26 (427) ! 
