A sclepias. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE# (BROWN). 345 
Coronal-lobes arising } lin. above the base of the staminal-column ard 
twice as long, bright or dark orange, erect, 4-4} lin. long, linear- 
oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, channelled down the face, 
with a deltoid-subulate tooth 1 lin. long at the middle of each margin, 
horizontally extended over the top of the staminal-column, and with or 
without a median tooth on the inner face of the lobe; anther-appendages 
large, ovate or orbicular, acute or obtuse, inflexed over the top of the 
style. Follicles 3-34 in. long, 4-5 lin. thick, lanceolate, tapering into 
a beak.—Gomphocarpus pauciflorus, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 
Bot. 276. Stathmostelma pauciflorum, K.Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 
132; in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322; and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzen- 
fam. iv. ii. 240; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 333. S. reflexum, 
Britten & Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, iv. 27, t. 6, figs. 4-6. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Rios de Sena, Peters !  Zambesi 
Delta, Kirk, 16! Lower Zambesi, above Expedition Island, Kirk, 147! British 
Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Chikala 
and Zomba, Purves, 34! Mount Zomba, 2500-5000 ft., Meller / Whyte ! Mago- 
mero, Meller! Elephant Marsh, Scott! Shire Highlands, Scott-Elliot, 8509 ! 
8567! = Buchanan, 319! Manganja Hills, Waller! Namasi, Cameron, 2! 
Rhodesia ; north of Umtali, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 160! 
_ 43. A. aurea, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 490. Piant 9-15 in. 
high, Stem erect, simple or occasionally branched at the base, with 
internodes 3—1} in. long, slender, puberulous along two lines alternating 
at the nodes. Leaves 14-3} in. long, } lin. broad, linear-filiform, 
glabrous. Umbels on large peduncles, lateral at the nodes, 3—7- 
flowered ; peduncles 23-5} in. long, with a puberulous line down one 
‘side, slender ; bracts 1-14 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 3—6 lin. long, 
slightly puberulous. Sepals 1-1} lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, pubescent on the back. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the 
base, reddish- or purplish-brown, thinly pubescent on the outside ; lobes 
Spreading, 11—2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, ovate, notched at the obtusely 
pointed apex, very minutely ciliate along one margin. Coronal-lobes 
awising at the base of the staminal-column and twice as long as it, 
bright orange-yellow, compressed-cucullate at the base, produced at the 
apex into a long channelled spreading or somewhat recurved point, the 
cucullate part }—3 lin. long, subtruncate with recurved margins at the 
top, produced at the inner apical angles into short erect obtuse teeth 
and reaching to about the same level as the staminal-column ; 
‘channelled point about 1 lin. long. Staminal-column 3-1 lin. long, of 
equal diameter at base and apex; anthers subquadrate, with short 
broadly-rounded membranous appendages inflexed over the margin of 
the truncate apex of the style.—A. aurea, Schlechter, and var. brevt- 
cuspis, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 255. Gomphocarpus aureus, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 17. 
_ Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: Salisbury, Rand, 638! 
Salisbury, Hon, Mrs, Evelyn Cecil, 144! Gwelo district, Raad, 188! 
at six-mile Spruit, near 
Also in South Africa. 
