Asclepias. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 349° 
verse papillate-pubescent line towards the base, but no median tooth. 
Staminal-column 14 lin. long; anther-appendages ovate, acute, inflexed 
over the rim of the flat or slightly concave apex of the style. 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: on the higher plateau north of Lake 
Nyassa, Thomson! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; North Nyasaland and Upper 
Loangwa River, Nicholson/ near Blantyre, Last’ Manganja Hills, Waller! 
Namasi, Cameron, 6! 
Var. foliosa, N. E. Br. Corolla-lobes 23-3 lin. long, indistinctly veined with 
rosy-purple within. Coronal-lobes shorter than the staminal-column 1-1} lin. long. 
—A. foliosa, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 686, exc]. syn. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, in pastures sparsely covered 
with bushes, Welwitsch, 4174! 
This plant seems somewhat variable in stature and in the size and form of the 
leaves, but I find no essential difference in the structure of the flowers of the various 
specimens seen. It appears to be closely allied to A. foliosa, N. E. Br., but differs 
in the basal part of the coronal-lobes being somewhat abruptly cucullate and in the 
constant presence of a short erect oblong obtuse tooth on each side of the cucullate 
part arising from the top margins close to the staminal-column. 
The Angolan plant only appears to differ from the type in its rather smaller 
flowers and shorter coronal-lobes. 
49. A, foliosa, V. /. Br. Stem solitary, simple or branched 
below, 10-14 in. high. Leaves subsessile or sessile, 2-23 in. long, 
13-3 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed or acute 
at the base, recurved along the margins, glabrous, with the exception of 
a few rather Jong hairs on the margins and midrib beneath. Ombels 
few, lateral and terminal, pedunculate, about 4-flowered ; pedicels 3-4 
lin. long, pubescent. Sepals about 1} lin. long, 3 lin. broad, lanceolate, 
acute, pubescent. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, glabrous on both 
sides, white (?); lobes 34 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, very 
minutely ciliate. Coronal-lobes arising at the base of the staminal- 
column and nearly equalling it in length, 1} lin. long, cucullate, erect, 
obliquely oblong, obtuse, their inflexed margins very obliquely rounded, 
each with a small acute tooth at the base inflexed within the hood, 
which has a transverse papillate-pubescent line within, a little below the 
middle. Between and connecting the coronal-lobes are 5 small pouch- 
like flaps under the projecting horny anther wings. Staminal-column 
1? lin. long; anther-appendages ovate, acute, inflexed over the rim of 
the slightly concave apex of the style.—Gom phocarpus foliosus, K.Schum. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 126, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 11. 
237; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo. i. 198. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Bashilange ; near Mukenge, Pogge, 1130! 
1191 and 1223 (ex Schumann). 
According to Schumann a } 
River, Pogge, 975, probably belongs here also. 
lant collected between Kingenge and the Kasai 
50. A. palustris, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 33 i. Roots 
tuberous. Stem 18 in. or more high, rather slender, simple or 
branched, pubescent. Leaves slightly spreading, 13-23 in. long, 23-9 
lin. broad, subsessile or on very short petioles, linear-lanceolate to 
