Asclepias. 753, 
long staminal-column, and reaching to its summit, erect, complicate- 
cucullate, with the apical angles of the inflexed sides produced into 
recurving teeth, that rise considerably above the general level of 
the rest of the lobe and have their tips incurved towards each 
other; margins of the inflexed sides narrowly winged outside; no 
tooth or born within. Follicles 5—8 cm long, ovate, attenuate into 
a beak, setose and minutely tomentose, but the setae nearly or 
quite glabrous. — Flow. January to May. 
N. d. Cultivated and naturalized in gardens; Rosetta; Kafr 
Dowar; Islands of Roda near Cairo, on fields-sides. 
Local name: *arjel. 
Also known from the other parts of North Africa, South and Tropical 
Africa, the Mascarene Islands, Madeira, Canaries, Arabia and South Europe, 
perhaps introduced in some of the localities. 
1054. (2.) Asclepias sinaica Muschler combin. nov. — Gom- 
phocarpus sinaicus Boiss. Diagnos. Plant. Or., Ser. I fase. XI p. 80. 
— Flor. Or, IV, p.61. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’g., p. 105 
no. 687. — Gomphocarpus fruticosus Decsne. in Ann. Scienc. Nat. 
sér. I Vol. IX, p.325 not of R. Br. — A woody much-branched shrub, 
1—1,5 m high; branches divergent, white-tomentose, simple. Leaves 
opposite, spreading, 2'/,—4 cm long, 1—2 mm broad, subsessile or 
with petioles 1—2 mm long, linear-lanceolate, acute, tapering at 
the base, revolute along the margins, glabrous, with the midrib 
adpressed pubescent beneath. Umbels several, lateral at the nodes 
along the upper part of the branches, pedunculate, 4—6 flowered; 
peduncles and pedicels 5—10 mm long, white-tomentose. Sepals 
1'/,—3 mm long, narrowly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
pubescent. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, reflexed, yellow; 
lobes about 6 mm long and 11/, mm broad, elliptic-ovate, acute, 
glabrous on both sides, short-ciliate along one margin. Coronal- 
lobes arising about 1 mm above the base of the staminal-column 
and reaching to its summit, apparently yellowish, 1 mm long, 1 mm 
broad, complicate, cucullate, subquadrate, with the dorsal margin 
shorter than the inner margins in side view, so that the real apex 
of the lobe does not rise so high as its inflexed sides, the apical 
angles of the inflexed sides produced into abruptly reflexed falcate 
teeth rising a little above the apical margin of the lobe, no tooth 
or horn within the lobe. Staminal-column 3'/, mm long; anther- 
appendages roundish-ovate, very obtuse, inflexed over the truncate 
apex of the style. Follicles ellipsoidal with a short beak, somewhat 
sparsely bristly, mealy-tomentellous between the red bristles. — 
Flow. December to March. 
Muschler, Manual Flora of Egypt. 48 
