340 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE% (BROWN). | Asclepias. 
lous. Corolla rotate, about 4 in. in diam.; lobes oblong, acute, puberu- 
lous on the back near the apex, spotted with brown, whitish at the 
tips. Coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, cucullate, truncate, glabrous and 
without a process within. Staminal-column 1} lin. long.—Gompho- 
carpus sphacelatus, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 233. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : near Beira, Braga, 38. 
1 have not seen this plant. 
34. A. coccinea, V./. Br. Plant 3-2 ft. high, stems simple or 
slightly branched at the base, sparsely puberulous or with puberulous 
lines. Leaves not numerous, ascending or incurved-spreading, subsessile 
or with a petiole about I lin. long; blade 2-4 in. long, $-2 lin. broad,. 
linear, acute, narrowed into the petiole at the base, glabrous, slightly 
scaberulous on the margins. Umbels terminal, solitary, 5-10-flowered ; 
peduncles 3-44 in. long, sparsely puberulous, or puberulous on one side; 
pedicels 2-1 in. long, puberulous. Sepals 14-2 lin. long, ovate-lanceo- 
late, acute or acuminate, puberulous, reflexed. Corolla blood-red,reflexed ; 
lobes 3-34 lin. long, 14-2} lin. broad, ovate, acute, minutely puberulous. 
on the back. Coronal-lobes arising about } lin. above the base of the 
staminal-column and one-third longer than it, erect, 2-24 lin. long, com- 
plicate, shortly clawed and subcordate at the base, truncate or slightly 
oblique at the top in side view, with the apical angles of the inflexed 
sides produced over the staminal-column into horizontal linear or linear- 
subulate teeth 1 lin. long, and with or without a horn or tooth between 
them on the face of the lobe, sometimes included, sometimes exserted. 
Anther-appendages elliptic, obtuse, inflexed over the apex of the style. 
—Stathmostelma incarnatum, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 130; 
and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 240; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 686; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 193. 
_ ower Guinea. Angola; Huilla; at Mompulla Lake, Welwitsch, 4176* 
Swamps along the Kuango River near Kitamba, Pogge, 381! 382, 608. 
In some of Welwitsch’s specimens of this plant, the horn within the cucullate 
part of the coronal-lobes is well developed, in others entirely absent, proving that this- 
character is of no generic importance. 
_ 35. A. macrantha, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 101. Stem 9-18 ip. 
high, simple, with two puberulous lines, or puberulous all round. Leaves: 
petiole 1-3 lin. long; blade 3-10 in. long, 13-5 lin. broad, linear-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, more or Jess puberulous on both sides, narrowly revolute 
along the margins. Umbels lateral and terminal, corymbose at the top 
of the stem, 3-6-flowered ; peduncles 34-11 in. long, puberulous or sub- 
glabrous ; bracts 2-3 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels }-2# in. long, puberu- 
lous, at least down one side. Sepals 24—3 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
puberulous. Corolla 3-14 in. in diam., rotate or somewhat reflexed, 
scarlet-red or yellow ; lobes 4—6 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, oblong or ovate: 
oblong, acute, minutely puberulous on the back. Coronal-lobes arisiDg 
1-1} lin. above the base of the staminal-column and overtopping it by 
from {—4 of their length, yellow, 3-4 lin. long, erect, shortly stalke 
and gibbous on each side at the base, complicate above, obtuse oF sub- 
