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Asclepias. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEA (BROWN). 347 
pedicels 4—6 lin. long, pubescent like the peduncles. Sepals 24 lin. long,. 
? lin. broad, spreading, lanceolate, very acute, thinly pubescent with 
long hairs on the back. Corolla lobed almost to the base, denselv 
veined with rosy-purple outside, whitish, slightly veined with rosy-. 
purple within ; lobes spreading, 4 lin. long, 2) lm. broad, oblong or 
ovate-oblong, subacute, with a few long jointed hairs on the back of the 
apical half, glabrous within, shortly ciliate. Coronal-lobes arising at the 
base of the staminal-column and equalling it in length, 2 lin. long,. 
erect, rather thick and fleshy, cucullate in the basal half only, which 
is adnate to the staminal-column up to the base of the anthers, where 
each side is produced into a short erect tooth close to the anther- 
wings, apical part tapering to an obtuse point, channelled down the 
inner face, within the cucullate part (at its top or at about the middle 
of the lobe) is a very dense transverse band of short obtuse hairs, none 
at the base. Staminal-column 2-21 lin. long; anther-appendages. 
broadly ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the depressed truncate apex of 
the style-—Gomphocarpus pulchellus, Decne. in Ann. Se. Nat. 2 sér. 
] 297, : Bae mies 
Ix. 325, and in DC. Prod. viii. 558. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, collector’s name not recorded on the label! 
This species is very closely allied to A. sechumanniana, Hiern, A. folios, 
N. E. Br., and A. modesta, N. E. Br., from all of which it differs in having much 
more rigidly fleshy coronalelobes, with the transverse band of hairs within them 
placed higher up, at the very margin of the cucullate part, broader, more dense and 
of rather stouter and more rigid hairs. The less membranous purple-veined corolla 
also distinguishes jt from A, foliosa and A, modesta, whilst the longer peduncles, 
Tosy-purple (not violet-purple) venation of the flowers, and terete (not flattened, 
scale-like) hairs within the coronal-lobes equally distinguish it from A. schuman- 
nana, 
The above description was made from the type specimen of Gomphoearpus 
pulchellus, Decne., kindly lent for the purpose by the Director of the Paris Herbarium. 
46. A. dissoluta, Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. 309. 
Stem 16-18 in. (or more 2) high, simple, glabrous, with one puberulous 
line. Leaves 13-4 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear, acuminate, narrowed 
or acute at the base, slightly revolute along the margins, geek e 
mbels solitary (always ?), terminal, 2-4-flowered ; peduncle o-43 lin. 
long; bracts subulate, 3-2 lin. long, glabrous; pedicels 5-6 lin. long, 
glabrous. Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corll. 
probably nearly rotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes 4 lin. long, 
12 lin, broad, oblong, subobtuse, recurved at the very apex, glabrous on 
both sides. Coronal-lobes arising }—} lin. above the base of the 1j-2 
lin. long staminal-column, and slightly exceeding it, 1}~1} lin. long,. 
erect, linear-oblong, slightly complicate or concave-channellea down the 
ace, convex on the back, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, which is 
Sometimes a little recurved, broadest at the base; margins somewhat. 
abruptly narrowed about one-third the way up, forming a slight oe 
jecting angle, as seen sideways (scarcely a tooth) ; no tooth on ¢ 
face of the lobe. Anther-appendages elliptic or orbicular, sub- 
acute or obtuse, inflexed over the apex of the style.— Xysmatobium 
