Brachystelma. | LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 471 
apiculate. Follicles 14-1} in. long, 34-43 lin. thick, stout, fusiform, 
beaked, glabrous.— Walp. Ann. ili. 68; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. li. 268. 
Nile Land, Abyssinia: by the Tacazze River, is moist shady places, Quartin 
Dillon. 
I have only seen a tracing of part of Richard’s type, which quite agrees with his 
figure, from which the measurements in the above description are taken. On the 
plate the outer corona is represented as forming five pouches, shortly bifid, with 
rounded lobules, and the inner coronal-lobes as linear-lanceolate, acute, inflexed over 
and longer than the anthers. 
9. B. Schinzii, V. #. Br. <A dwarf species, the entire plant. 
(including the tuber) 3-5 in. high. Tuber about 1 in. in diam., fleshy, 
conical-ovoid, flattish at the base. Stem solitary, divided at the surface 
of the ground into a few prostrate branches, }—2} in. long, puberulous 
with short curved hairs; underground part simple, 1-1} in. long, 
glabrous. Leaves erect or ascending, #-2 in. long, 4—} lin. broad, 
sessile, linear or subterete, from the margins being revolute until they 
touch each other, somewhat fleshy, obtuse or subacute, more or less 
puberulous with short curved hairs. Flowers usually in pairs, sub- 
lateral between the bases of the leaves; pedicels 6—8 lin. long, slender, 
sparsely puberulous. Sepals 1-14 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, 
glabrous. Corolla rotate, 4—5 lin. in diam., 5-lobed to half-way down, 
purple-brown, with a white centre; lobes 1} lin. long and as much in 
breadth, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous outside, villous inside with long 
purple hairs, which taper towards each end. Outer corona arising from 
the middle of the 4 lin. long staminal-column and reaching to the level 
of its top, annular or very shortly cup-shaped, subpentagonal, entire, 
glabrous, whitish (or yellowish ?) with the margin purple-brown ; inner 
coronal-lobes obsolete, represented by the rather thick partitions which 
connect the base of the anthers with the outercorona. Anthers oblong, 
retuse, incumbent on the top of the truncate depressed apex of the 
style.—Craterostemma Schinzii, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 154 ; 
and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 266. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland ; Olukonda, Schinz / 
Imperfectly known species. 
10. B. keniense, Schweinf. in Hihnel, Zum Rudolph-See wnd 
Stephanie-See, Sonderabdr. 8. Subcaulescent, branched, puberulous. 
Leaves lanceolate, petiolate. Flowers overtopping the leaves, axillary, 
solitary. Calyx puberulous. Corolla lobed more than two-thirds the 
way down, glabrous. Corona subsimple, with the interior scales adnate 
to the back of the stamens and there incumbent upon a fold, 
appendaged at the base by a rectangular tooth on each side (the lobes 
of the outer corona). Anthers with an obtuse thickened apex.—Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 344; K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 
327, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 268. 
