344 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). | Asclepias. 
5 lin, thick, lanceolate, tapering to a beak at the apex and to a 11-1} 
in. long stipe at the base. Seeds flat, 2 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, ovate, 
wrinkled on both sides, margins thickened, brown.—Stathmostelma 
angustatum, K, Schum. in Engl. Jahrb, xvii. 132. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Sana; in swampy places on Walcha mountain plain, 
Schimper, 1589! 
41. A. muhindensis, V. 7. Br. Stems erect or ascending, 7-10 
in. high, slender, 14-2 lin. in diam. at the thickest part, puberulous 
down one side in the upper part. Leaves sessile, }-3} in. long, }-2 
lin. broad, narrowly linear, acuminate, narrowed at the base, glabrous 
on both sides. Umbels from one axil (?sublateral), 2—4-flowered ; 
peduncles unequal, {-2} in. long, puberulous down one side ; pedicels 
4-$ in. long, puberulous down one side. Sepals 3 lin. long, > lin. 
broad, lanceolate-subulate, pubescent, green, tipped with violet. 
Corolla 5-lobed to 24-33 lin. above the base, white outside, speckled 
with violet within; lobes 3-4 lin. long, oblong, acute, glabrous. 
Coronal-iobes arising about } lin. above the base of the staminal- 
column, 2} lin. long, linear-elliptic in outline, shortly 3-lobed at the 
apex, margin incurved (i.e. complicate), puberulous at the middle 
within, and externally with a small pouch on each side at the middle. 
Staminal-column 2} lin. long ; anthers described as follows: “ Stamt- 
nibus lateralibus curvatis et valde induratis, connectivo maximo 
inflexo et crispato in sinus stigmatis capitis valde dissectis immersls, 
which I take to mean that the anthers have very horny curved 
sides (anther-wings) and very large inflexed and crisped appendages, 
sunk in the sinuses of the much divided apex of the style.—Stath- 
mostelma bicolor, K. Schum. in Evgl. Jahrb. xxviii. 457. 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: Uhehe; on the Muhinde Steppe, 
400 ft., Goetze, 523. 
Said to re-emble _4. angustata, N. KB. Br., but differing in its much narrower 
sepals. The arrangement of the umbels is not stated, but I assume they are 
arranged in a subcorymbose manner. 
12. A. reflexa, Britten & Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 
28, in note. Plant 1-2 ft. high. Stems glabrous, with two usually 
sparsely pubescent lines. Leaves in 3-6 moderately distant pairs, 
s mewhat spreading ; petiole 1-3 lin. long ; blade 2-6 in. long, 7-4 /in. 
broad, linear or lanceolate-linear, acuminate or acute, acute or rounded 
into the petiole at the base, with narrowly revolute scaberulous margiDs, 
glabrous or occasionally with a sparse minute pubescence on both sides. 
Umbels usually two, on long peduncles at the apex of the stem, which 
is usually destitute of leaves in the upper part umbel solitary in weak 
plants or in strong plants dichotomously divided, producing @ third 
umbel, 4—0-flowered ; peduncles 3-103 in. long, pubescent down one 
side ; bracts none or minute ; pedicels }-1}in. long, pubescent. Sepals 
2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent, reflexed. Corolla 5-lobed 
nearly to the base ; lobes 3-4 lin. long, 14-1? lin. broad, ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, reflexed, with revolute margins, glabrous, red or purplish. 
