338 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). | Asclepias. 
2 lin. broad, elliptic, ovate, obtusely pointed, glabrous, sparingly ciliate 
along one margin, reflexed. Coronal-lobes arising } lin. above the base of 
the staminal-zolumn, and equalling or very slightly overtopping it, 14-1} 
lin. long, complicate, truncate or rounded at the top, with a minute 
tooth at the apical angle of the inflexed sides, no median tooth within. 
Follicles immature, about 2 in. long, and } in. thick near the base, 
narrowly lanceolate, attenuate into a long heak, white-tomentose, and 
having a few short stiff points or processes on the lower half.—Gom- 
phocarpus stenophyllus, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 110, t. 119; 
K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, PAlanzenfam. iv. ii. 236. - 
Wile Land. Uganda: Mau ; by waterside, 6000-8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6882! 
British East Africa: Kapte Plains, Lanjoro, Gregory, 30! 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Kazeh (labora) district, Speke § 
Grant ! 
30. A. amabilis, V. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin 1895, 70. Stems 
16-18 in. high, rather slender, slightly pubescent or nearly glabrous. 
Leaves erect, subsessile, 14-3 in. long, 4-1} lin. broad, linear, acute, 
revolute (sometimes to the midrib) and minutely scabrous along the 
margins. Umbels 2-3, lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 5—6-flowered ; 
peduncles }—-2} in. long, puberulous down the inner side; bracts subu- 
late, 2-3 lin. long; pedicels 8-12 lin. long, puberulous down the inner 
side. Sepals 2-2} lin. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
puberulous, ciliolate. Corolla 9-10 lin. in diam., rotate, 5-lobed nearly 
to the base, white and glabrous within, light purple and sparsely 
puberulous on the back; lobes 4-4} lin. long, 24 lin. broad, ovate, 
acute. Coronal-lobes arising about 4 lin. above the base of the stam!- 
nal-column and reaching to its top, erect, 1} lin. Jong, complicate-cucul- 
late, subquadrate in side view, truncate at the base and apex, with the 
apical angles of the inflexed sides produced into small erect obtuse 
teeth, no tooth within ; alternating with them are 5 minute pocket-like 
lobules under the anther-wings. Staminal-column 1} lin. longs 
anther-appendages broadly-ovate, inflexed over the apex ot the style.— 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 425. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu; Fwambo, South of Lake 
Tanganyika, Carson, 35! 55! 
31. A. longissima, V. Z. Br. Stem solitary, 24-3 ft. high, erect, 
simple, 1-24 lin. thick at the base, slightly puberulous along one side. 
Lower leaves 6-10 in. long, 2-5 lin. broad, linear, tapering into a very 
acuminate point, narrowed at the base into a petiole 1-2 lin. long, 
glabrous on both sides, slightly scaberulous along the narrowly revo- 
lute margins; uppermost leaves very much reduced and not longer 
than the peduncle of the same node. Umbels 6-7, pedunculate, 
3-4-flowered, lateral at the upper nodes, where the leaves are redu 
to filiform rudiments 1-3 in. long, so that the inflorescence becomes ad 
3?) 
. is « 
nearly leafless panicle; peduncies }—3? in. long, puberulous ane vet 
side; bracteoles 14-2 lin. long, linear-filiform ; pedicels ae eke fi 
puberulous on one side. Sepals reflexed, 13-2 (2) ex A. eset 
