28 ' THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, 
coronse lobis petaloideis, aurantiacis, gynostegium alte superantibus, oblongis, 
cucullatis, apice integris, medio dentibus binis productis et e cavitate appendiculam 
falcatam emittentibus ; styli apice orbiculari, 5-lobulato, medio depresso. 
The generally simple stems are 13-22 in. long; the slender flaccid leaves have a midrib 
prominent on the lower surface and slightly or ODRES with no other venation visible ; 
the length varies considerably, from 23 to 6 in., and the breadth from 14 to 24 lines. 
The flower-pedicels are slender, 8-9 lines long; the bracts have fallen. The flowers 
measure 4 lines across; the small sepals (1 line long) are quite hidden by the corolla, 
which is abruptly reflexed almost at its base; the short corolla-tube is £ line long, the 
ovate lobes 3 lines by 1% broad. The large bright orange ob edt ud are 31 lines 
long, and stand erect above the petals. The arms of the pollen-earriers gradually 
broaden from the attachment, forming a wide upper membranous portion with an 
incurving lower edge; the small pollinia-bearing portion is attached to this by an 
acuminate apex. 
The species is near S. incarnatum, K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. p. 130, but 
distinguished by the oblong corona-lobe with its entire apex, that of S. incarnatum 
being truncate and subtrilobate; the appendage is also much larger, projecting beyond 
the cavity, whereas in S. incarnatum itis smalland hidden in the cavity; the arms of 
the pollen-carriers are also narrower in the Milanji species.* 
Hab. Milanji, Oct. 
* The following new species of this genus collected by Dr. Welwitsch, may be described here :— 
SrATHMOSTELMA Wetwitscui, Britten € Rendle. Suffrutex perennis, tubere duro napiformi, valde lactescens ; 
caulibus erectis, teretibus, glabris, ramosis; foliis elongatis, lineari-lanceolatis, viridi-subglaucescentibus, 
subcarnosulis; inflorescentia umbellata ; umbellis 2-6-floris; pedicellis puberulis; sepalis ovati-lanceolatis, 
acutis, subpuberulis; corolle rotate, intense aurantiace, tubo perbrevi, lobis ovalibus acutis; corons lobis 
petaloideis, gynostegium valde superantibus, oblongis, apice truncatis, cucullatis, dentibus binis acutis lateralibus 
sub cuculla instructis et medio appendiculam truncatam emittentibus, inferne carinatis; gynostegio altiuscule 
pedicellato; translatorum brachiis oblongis, basi = subito in filum tenue contractis, iterum in aream 
triangularem polliniferam dilatatis. 
The plant is 23-4 ft. high; the leaves closely resemble those of S. reflexum, but are slightly broader and less 
flaccid; the open flowers measure a little less than an inch across, their pedicels being ¿to 1} in. long. The 
sepals are 3 lines long by 1 broad; the short corolla-tube is 2 line long, the spreading lobes 5 lines long by 2 
broad. The truncate corona-segments are erect as in S. reflexum and 21 lines long, overtopping the stalked : 
gynostegium ; a membranous keel runs from the base of the teeth down the middle of the lobe. 
In flower in January. 
_ Distinguished from the Milanji species by its sturdier habit, larger flowers, rotate corolla, truncate corona- 
segments, and the shape of the arms of the translators. Is apparently near K. Schumann's S. rhacodes, which, 
however, has smaller flowers, much longer corona-segments, and the arms of the translators contracted with 
shoulders at the top. Decaisne’s Gomphocarpus chironioides, in DC. Prod. viii. p. 562, may belong to this species. 
- Hab. Very rare in elevated sandy thickets near Pedras de Guinga, Pungo Andongo ( Welwitsch, * Iter Angolense; 
No. 4168). 
|. These plants. belong to the genus Stathmostelma, recently established by Dr. K. Schumann (Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
. xvii.p. 129, t. 6). His diagnosis is based on the very broad arms of the pollen-carriers (“ translators"), which 
- characterize these species. Further investigation of the genera may lead, as Schumann himself points out, to a 
considerable reduction in their number, in which case Stathmostelma will probably be relegated to Asclepias, and our 
no RE E en 4. Welwitschii, 
