Asclepias. LXXXY. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 351 
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Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Lower plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, 
Thomson ! 
The leaves and stems in the dried state are tinted with purple. 
52. A. Randii, 8. Joore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 255. Plant about 
/ in. high, branching near the base. Branches about 3 lin. thick, 
shortly pilose ; internodes 3-6 lin. long. Leaves ascending-spreading, 
sessile or subsessile, }—25 in. long, ?-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, pilose 
on both sides. Umbels about 2 to a branch, subcorymbose, 
3-4-flowered ; peduncles 6—10 lin. long, densely pilose ; bracts 2-24 lin. 
long, pilose-pubescent, persistent ; pedicels 5-6 lin, long, densely pilose. 
Sepals 2 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pilose-pubescent, some- 
what retiexed. Corolla apparently green, lobed nearly to the base; 
lobes slightly reflexed, 3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtuse, 
thinly pilose on the back, glabrous within. Coronal-lobes arising at 
the base of the staminal-column and overtopping it by nearly or quite 
half their length, about 31 lin. long, erect, complicate-cucullate in the 
basal part, which dves not reach to the top of the staminal-column and 
is produced into short obtuse teeth at the apical angles of the sides, 
terminal part produced into an erect linear obtuse process 2 lin. long ; 
peer surface minutely papillate-puberulous, Staminal-column 14 lin. 
ong. 
Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: Salisbury, Rand, 194! 
_ 93. A. eminens, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453. Plant 5-10 
in. high, branching close to the ground. Branches usually more or less 
<lecumbent, pubescent along 2 lines alternating at the nodes, leafy; 
internodes }—1 in. long. Leaves ascending, usually unilateral ; petiole 
1-3 lin. long ; blade 1-4? in. long, 3~24 lin. broad, linear, acute, shortly 
hastate or rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, thickened along the 
flat or slightly recurved margins, quite glabrous on both sides or thinly 
setulose-scabrid along the midrib beneath. Umbels solitary on each 
branch, terminal, pedunculate, 3~6-flowered, erect ; peduncle }—27 in. 
long, pubescent along one side; bracts 3-5 lin. long, {~4 lin. broad, 
linear, acute, glabrous or sparsely setulose-scabrid, usually very 
deciduous ; pedicels 3-2 in. long, puberulous along one side. Sepals 
2}~4 lin, long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, very acute, 
glabrous or with here and there a hair. Corolla lobed nearly to the 
base, greenish, glabrous on both sides; lobes 44-64 lin. long, 14-2} lin. 
broad, lanceolate, tapering to an obtuse point, very spreading or some- 
what reflexed. Coronal-lobes arising } lin. above the base of the 
staminal-column and overtopping it by 4—} of their length, 3-4} lin. 
long, 3-} lin. broad across the side, complicate and of nearly equal 
breadth throughout, erect, recurved-spreading at the apical part, 
inflexed sides truncate or rounded at the top and spread out forming 
an open mouth to the complicate part, apex of the lobe produced 
dorsally into a short deltoid point. Staminal-column 23-3} lin. 
long ; anther-appendages elliptic, obtuse, inflexed over the apex of 
