:^!l(> Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^. (brown). [Podostelmct. 



Itrc'soiu'c uf ;i corona, wliich, although very small, is quite evident, and arises on the 

 stauiinal-colnnin at about or a little below the middle. 



1. P. Schimperi, K. Scham. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 134, t. Q, fig. 

 K — M. A small woody shrub, much branched, the branches sometiines 

 twining ; young shoots, "petioles, pedicels and calyx all densely and 

 minutely tomentose. Leaves rather thick and somewhat fleshy ; petiole 

 2-4 lin. long; blade ^,-1 in. long, 2-10 lin. broad, ovate or elliptic, 

 obtuse, apiculate or acute. Cymes or fascicles sessile, 2-G-flowered ; 

 pedicels 1 lin, long or less. Calyx campanulate, 1 lin. long, o-lobed to 

 half-way down or more ; lobes ovate, subobtuse. Corolla apparently 

 white or yellowish ; tube campanulate, \ lin. long ; lobes 3J-4 lin. long, 

 spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse. Coronal-lobes horizontally spreading 

 from about the middle of the filamental part of the staminal-column, 

 which is ^ lin. long, furrowed, and more slender than the antheriferous 

 portion. Anther appendages broadly reniform, very obtuse, connivent 

 around the base of the apical part of the style, which is produced beyond 

 them into a subulate, entire or bifid beak |-1 lin. long. Follicles li— 2 in. 

 long, ?.-J, in. thick, lanceolate, acuminate, smooth, more or less glaucous. 

 Seeds '1\-?) lin. long, ovate, plano-convex, scabrid-tuberculate, crowned 

 with a tuft of hairs. — K. Schum. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 

 ii. 2o4, fig. 68, J, inaccurate, and see 225. Astephanus Schimperi, Vatke 

 in Oest. Bot. Zeit. 1876, 145. 



N'ile Kand. Nubia : between 8u;»kiu aud Berber ; at Siugat, Schweinfurth, 

 213! aud \V;idi Sarrauib, Schweinfurth, 319! Eritrea: Keren, Steudner, 768! 

 Ihihiih, IiadebrnncU, 4^84! {qk Vatke). Abyssinia: near Gurs.irf a, 3000-4000 ft., 

 iSchiiiiper, 2331 ! and 8 (ex A". Schumann). 



15. GLOSSONEMA, Decne.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 748. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube short ; lobes 5, suberect or spreading, 

 overlapping to the left, but scarcely twisted in the bud, often tuberculate 

 or thickened below the apex. Corona of 5 lobes arising from the tube of the 

 corolla a little above the origin of the staminal-column or at the mouth, 

 alternating with the corolla-lobes, usually free and variable in form, 

 rarely connate into a 5-lobed tube. Staminal-column arising at or below 

 the middle of the corolla-tube ; anthers terminated by erect or inflexed 

 membranous appendages. Pollen-masses pendulous, solitary in each 

 anther-cell, attached in pairs to the pollen-carriers by short or almost 

 obsolete caudicles. Style sometimes exserted beyond the anthers. 

 Follicles variable, echinate or smooth. Seeds flat, with entire or toothed 

 margins, crowned with a tuft of hairs. — Dwarf perennial or rarely 

 annual herbs, with opposite leaves. Cymes lateral or sublateral between 

 the bases of the petioles, few-or many-flowered, or the flowers solitary, 

 small. 



Species few mostly natives of Tropical Africa but extending into North Africa 

 :»nd from Arabia to Sciude. 



