336 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Asclepias. 
long, 2-24 lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, obtusely pointed. Coronal-lobes 
arising $ lin. above the base of the staminal-column and reaching to 
its top 14-12 lin. long, 14-1} lin. broad across the side, D-shaped, 
viewed sideways, with the inflexed sides rectangularly acute at their 
tips, but never produced into distinct teeth. Follicles 24-24 in. long, 
fin. in diam., ovoid-lanceolate, gradually tapering into a beak beset 
with very numerous bristle-like processes, white-pubescent or sub- 
tomentose all over. Seeds about 24 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong- 
ovate, very convex on one side, flat with a raised margin on the other, 
minutely tuberculate or scrobiculate.—-Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 
452. Gomphocarpus tomentosus, Burch. Trav. i. 543. G@. lanatus, E. 
Meyer, Comm. 202; DC. Prod. viii. 558. 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Amboland; Olukonda, Schinz, 
17! 27! Rautanen, 84! 
Also in South Africa. 
The plant referred to Gomphocarpus tomentosus, Burch., by K. Schumann in 
Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 128, may belong here or to some other species. It 
was collected by De Beerst from a plant cultivated at Mpala, originally brought 
from Kibanga in the Congo Free State. The specimens alluded to by K. Schumann 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322 under G@. Sruticosus, var. tomentosus, judging from the 
synonymy quoted, appear to belong partly to A. lewcocarpa, Schlechter, partly to 4. 
Phillipsie, N. K. Br. and probably partly to A. flavida, N.E. Br., or A. pubiseta, 
Neh, Br: 
27. A. filiformis, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 753, in a note under 
Schizoglossum. Stems 3-6 ft. high, slender, about 4 Jin. thick in the 
flowering part, simple, very rarely branched in the upper part, glabrous, 
covered with a thin white waxy secretion. Leaves 2-4 in. long, linear 
or almost filiform, with strongly revolute margins, glabrous. Umbels 
lateral and terminal, 6—10-flowered ; peduncles 4-1 in. long; pedicels 
4—6 lin. long, minutely white-tomentose at first, becoming more or less 
glabrescent. Sepals 1-1] lin. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute, white- 
tomentose. Corolla reflexed, sulphur-yellow; lobes 2-2} lin. long, 1} 
lin. broad, ovate, acute, puberulous on the back. Coronal-lobes arising 
4-} lin. above base of staminal-column and slightly exceeding it, 1} iin. 
long, erect, complicate, subtruncate or obliquely truncate, with the 
ovate obtuse apex and marginal angles slightly produced, with 
a slightly exserted horn within. Follicles solitary, 1-1} in. long, 
23-3 lin. thiek, lanceolate, acuminate from the middle into a long beak, 
pulverulent, at length glabrate. Sceds 21-3 lin. long, ovate, plano 
convex, smooth, brown, with a narrow darker brown margin. —Schinz 
in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenburg, xxx. 262 under A. buchenavian4 
K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 238. Lagarinthus 
Jiliformis, E. Meyer, Comm. 203. Gomphocarpus filiformis, D. Diett- 
Synop. Pl. ii. 900; Deene. in DC. Prod. viii. 558. 
Lower Guinea. Hereroland, ex Schinz. 
Not uncommon in Extratropical South Africa. : 
Var, buchenaviana, N. KE. Br. Stems stouter, about 3 lin. thick in the flowering 
part, much branched, usually rather densely covered with a white waxy eer 
