334 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE& (BROWN). [ Asclepias. 
Engler in his Hochgebigstloia Trop. Afr. 341 has united this plant with 4. 
Sruticosa, l., from which it differs in its unbranched habit, whorled leaves and 
very different coronal-lobes. From A. Phillipsie it is distinguished by its broader 
leaves, stouter, unbranched stems and different coronal-lobes. 
23. A. albida, V. LH. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 254. Stems 
erect, pubescent, 2—3 ft. or more high. Leaves opposite, ascending- 
spreading ; petiole 3-1 lin. long; blade 4—6 in. long, 1-24 lin. broad, 
linear, acuminate, cuneate at the base, revolute at the margins, nearly 
glabrous, with a few hairs on the midrib beneath. Umbels lateral 
between the bases of the leaves, pedunculate, 4—10-flowered ; peduncles 
7-1} in. long, pubescent; bracts 3-4 lin. long, linear-subulate, 
deciduous; pedicels #-1 in. long, pubescent. Calyx-lobes 3-3} 
lin, long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. Corolla rotate; lobes 
reflexed, } in. long, 33-4 lin. broad, elliptic, obtuse, ciliate along one 
margin, glabrous outside, very minutely puberulous within, apparently 
white. Coronal-lobes arising about 4 lin. above the base of the 
staminal-column, and overtopping it by half their length, erect, 
3 lin. long, complicate-cucullate, with the apical angles of the inflexed 
sides produced into a reflexed falcate tooth or lobe, that rises above and 
is partly embraced by the sides of the truncate apex, no tooth within 
the lobe, which is narrowly winged outside near the margins and 
gibbous on each side at the base. Follicles 2} in. long, 7-8 lin. thick, 
lanceolate, acuminate, setose and pubescent. : 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Saganeiti, north side towards Selet, 6500-7200 ft., 
Schweinfurth & Riva, 993! Abyssinia, Schimper, 27! 
24. A. integra, V. HL. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 219. A bush 
4—5 ft. high, with erect branches, in the young state covered with 
a white felted tomentum, branches at length white-pruinose, and 
finally nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves erect or ascending, subsessile, 
23-6 in. long, $-1 lin, broad, linear, margins revolute to the midrib, 
mucronate-acute, at first white-woolly, then glabrous. Umbels 
several, lateral at the nodes along the upper part of the branches 
5-8-flowered ; peduncles 3—1 in. long ; pedicels 6—10 lin. long. Sepals 
1-1} lin. long, $—} lin. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 
d-lobed nearly to the base, probably yellowish-white or greenish- 
white, white-tomentose outside, glabrous within; lobes reflexed, 3-? 
lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, subacute. Coronal-lobes 
arising close to (or up to 4 lin. above) the base of the staminal- 
column, and overtopping it by half their length, erect, 2-3 lin. long, 
1}-—2 lin. broad, complicate-cucullate, obliquely ovate or obliquely ovate- 
oblong in side view, inner margins entire, obliquely rounded or slightly 
angular at about the middle, but with no distinct tooth, and 2° 
median tooth within, apparently ochreous. Follicles about 1? lin. long, 
inflated-ovoid at the base, contracted or narrowed into a beak, white- 
tomentose when young, pruinose or almost glabrous when mature. 
Seeds ovate, concave on one face, very convex on the other, rugose- 
—K. Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 37. Gomphocarps 
