Aselepias. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEH (BROWN). 339 
din. long, ? lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly channelled at the 
apex, glabrous, very minutely ciliate. Corolla lobed nearly to the base, 
entirely reflexed, very minutely downy outside, apparently dirty 
“reenish-white, tinged with purple outside; lobes 5 lin. long, 3 lin. 
broad, elliptic, minutely notched at the obtuse point. Coronal-lobes 
arising $—} lin. above the base of the staminal-column and slightly 
overtopping it, 2} (24 ex A’. Schumann) lin. long, 2 lin. broad across 
the side, compressed-cucullate, subrectangular in side view, obliquely 
rounded or subtruncate at the top, where the margins are thickened 
and strongly papiliate and the dorsal apex is produced into a minute 
incurved papillate tooth; no tooth or crest within the lobe; 5 minute 
pouch-like lobules under the anther-wings alternating with the coronal- 
lobes. Staminal-column about 3 lin. long, not broadened at the base 
“of the oblong anthers; snther-appendages broadly ovate, acute, 
‘contracted into a short stalk at the base, obscurely lacerate on the 
margin, inflexed over the rim of the crater-like apex of the style, 
under which the pollen-carriers are seated.—Gomphocarpus longissimus, 
K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 382. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: region of Lake Nyasa, Goetze! 
Portuguese or British East Africa : Tumbi, near Lake Nyasa, rare, Johnston, 357! 
32. A. Nuttii, V. H. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 308. Stem 
“pparently solitary, 1-14 ft. high, slender, simple, erect, glabrous. 
Leaves erect, 14-2} in. long, 3-1 lin. broad, flat, linear, acute, tapering 
to the base, glabrous on both sides with the margins minutely scabrous- 
viliate. Umbel terminal, pedunculate, 8—10-flowered ; peduncle 13 in. 
long; bracts 5-15 lin. long, linear or filiform, ciliolate ; pedicels 4-5 
lin. long, minutely pubescent or subscaberulous. Sepals erect or 
ascending, 2 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, lanceolate. acuminate, minutely 
pubescent on the back. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed almost to the base ; 
lobes about 4 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
subacute, glabrous and not ciliate, brownish or dull purplish outside, 
with whitish margins, whitish within in the dried state. Coronal- lobes 
arising at the base of the staminal-column and nearly reaching to the 
top of it, 14 lin. long, erect, complicate-cucullate, truncate at the apex, 
no tooth within or at the apex of the inflexed sides, apparently dark 
yellow, all united together just below their middle by a connecting 
membrane which forms 5 small pockets immediately under the anther- 
Wings. Staminal-column 2 Jin. long; anther-appendages rounded or 
transversely elliptic, inflexed upon the depressed apex of the style. 
Mozamb. Dist. (erman East Africa : between Lake Tanganyika and Lake 
Rukwa, about 6000 ft., Nutt ! 
33. A, sphacelata, V. 1. Br. Stem solitary, 4-8 in. high, simple, 
puberulous. Leaves sessile, 4 in. long, $~1 lin. broad, linear, 
attenuate-acuminate, acute at the base, scabrid above, puberulous 
beneath. Umbels lateral and terminal, congested near the apex, 
pedunculate, 3-5-flowered ; peduncle 4-~7 lin. long, puberulous ; pedi- 
¢els 3-5 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals 1?-2 lin. long, subulate, puberu- 
