684 LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADE. [ Asclepias 
red flowers. By a stream on the higher parts of Monte Verde in 
St. Vincent, wild, perhaps not indigenous ; fl. Aug. 1853. No. 4181. 
According to a note of Welwitsch the root is somewhat drastically 
purgative. 
~~ 2. A. firma Schlecter ms. in Herb. Mus. Brit. 
Schizoglossum firmum N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 252. 
Hurtia.—Corolla whitish violet in colour. In the higher moist 
thickets near Lopollo; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4191. 
The corona has its lateral margins broadly inflected with a slight 
keel along the lines of folding and another keel down the inflected 
portions ; each of the inflected portions has an erect rounded terminal 
lobe approximated to that of the other inflected portion ; the pollen- 
masses are almost discoid and agree with those of Asclepias. 
™ 3. A. Frederici Hiern, sp. n. 
A slender shrub, loosely or sparingly branched from the base 
upwards, 3 to 5 ft. high or rarely taller; branches spreading, 
subterete, smooth, dusky; branchlets more or less spreading, 
softly white-tomentose, leafy, fistular; leaves opposite or the 
upper ones crowded, elongate-linear, pointed at the apex, some- 
what wedge-shaped towards the sessile or subsessile base, dry-fleshy, 
erass-green, sparingly hairy or nearly glabrescent above, more or 
less clothed with whitish hairs beneath, revolute along the lateral 
margins, 1 to 4in. long by +}, to } in. broad, uninerved or with 1 or 2 
very slender nerves beneath on each side of the midrib; flowers 
greenish-yellowish ochroleucous or sulphur-coloured ; pedicels 
tomentose or pilose, with white hairs, slender, umbellate, 4 to 6 
together, } to $ in. long; common peduncle lateral to the axils, 
tomentose or pilose, about as long as the pedicels; sepals spread- 
ing or reflected, lanceolate, acute, 4 in. long, pale green, pilose on 
the back ; corolla deeply lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, scarcely 
acute, pilosulous on the back, } in. long, spreading or reflected, 
glabrous or minutely glandular in front; andreecium ; in. long ; 
corona-scales 1 in. long, reaching as high as the anthers, indu- 
plicate, subquadrate as folded, with straight vertical inner 
margins, curved along the top entire margins, keeled along the 
back and base to the attachment with the staminal column, and 
usually with an erect short lobule or tooth at the apex of each 
or one inner side; anther-tip appendages membranous, ovate- 
deltoid, ineurving ; follicles inflated, oblong-spherical, sulphur- 
coloured, spotted with purple, aculeate, 1} to 2 in. long, pilose ; 
prickles weak, pilosulous, violet-purple. 
Punco Anponco.—A lovely shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, rarely more, 
branched from the base; leaves rather fleshy, grass-green ; flowers 
sulphur-yellow ; follicles oblong-spherical, sulphur-yellow spotted with 
purple, beset with weak violet-purple prickles. On the more elevated 
ranges of the rocks in the przesidium where it isa shrublet of 2 ft. 
in height, in the deep valleys 4 to 5 ft ; fl. and fr. end of Nov. 1856. 
No. 4160. A loosely branched elegant shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high ; flowers 
green-yellowish. On the tops of the rocks of the presidium, plenti- 
ful; fl. Dec. 1856; fr. March 1857. No. 4161. A slender shrub, 
3 to 5 ft. high; branches sparse, spreading ; leaves dryly rather 
