350 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEH (BROWN). { Asclepias. 
narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, rounded or emarginate at the base, 
yevolute along the margins, minutely scaberulous or with a short 
‘spreading pubescence. Umbels terminal and lateral, pedunculate, 6—10- 
flowered, subcorymbose at the top of the stem ; peduncles $—6 in. long, 
pubescent ; bracts 14-2 lin. long, subulate; pedicels 5-8 lin. long, 
pubescent. Sepals 2-2} lin. long, attenuate, acute, more or less pubes- 
cent. Corolla } in. in diam., with very spreading or reflexed lobes 3-35 
lin. long, 2-21 lin. broad, ovate, acute, pubescent on the back, puberu- 
lous towards the base within, apparently whitish, with or without dark 
purple dots and lines within but pale rosy according to Welwitsch. 
Coronal-lobes horizontally radiating from the base of the staminal- 
column and only reaching to half its height, 14 lin. long, 14 lin. high, 
purple-brown with whitish margins, hood- or bonnet-shaped, sub- 
truncate, minutely denticulate along the top margins, which have an 
erect tooth on each side at the base; the cavity is nearly filled up bya 
large tuft of pubescent or papillate filaments arising from a large keel 
that runs along the bottom of the hood and papillate along the margin 
within.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw.i. 686. © Gomphocarpus cristatus, 
Deene. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 sér. ix. 325, t. 11, D. fig. 3; and in DC. 
Prod. viii. 562; K.Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. i. 236. 
G. palustris, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 127, and in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 236. G. paluster, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 
382. 
Lower Guinea. Ango'a: Pungo Andongo; on the more e’evated rocks of the 
Presidium, Welwitsch, 4167! Malange, Mechow, 317, 401! 
: Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Unyika, on a hilly plateau near 
Kananda Villa:e, 4900 ft., Goetze, 1440 (ex Schumann). British Central Africa : 
Nyasaland ; Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Kondowe to Karong®, Whyte! 
Mount Zomba, Whyte! Mou :t Mlanje, Scott-Elliot, 8670! MecClounie, 4g! 
The Zomba plant has rather Inger teeth at the base of the coronal-lobes and the 
fiaments within are rather shorter than in the Angolan plant, but I do not think it is 
specifically distinct. : 
51. A. pygmea, V. #. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 255. Plant 
3-4 in, high. Stems several from a root, simple or once or twice 
branched, pubescent. Leaves somewhat spreading, lower opposites 
upper, or at least some of those arising from a flowering node, » 1m @ 
whorl, subsessile, 1-2 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, scaberu- 
lous, revolute to midrib along the margins. Umbels 1-3 to a stem, 
pedunculate, corymbose, 4—6-flowered ; peduncles $—3 in. long, pubes- 
cent ; bracts 2}—3 lin. long, subulate, pubescent; pedicels 4—6 lin. long, 
pubescent. Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent. Corolla 
)-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes 24-3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, oblong; 
subobtuse, more or less pubescent on the back. Coronal-lobes stel- 
lately radiating from the base of the staminal-column and rising tO ie 
same general level 2 lin. long, complicate, inflexed sides or the basal 
half produced into broad deltoid obtuse erect teeth reaching to the 
top of the staminal-column, minutely papillate-pubescent within. 
Anther-appendages broad, transverse, rounded. 
