Glossonema.] lxxxv. AscLEPiADEiE (brown). 291 



Annual; leaves linear ; flowers solitary . . .1. G.lineare. 



Perennial ; flowers not solitary. 



Style slightly exceeding the anthers ; apical part 

 shortly conical. 

 Leaf-blade ^-5 in. long, linear or linear-lanceolate . 2. G. nuhicum. 

 Leaf -blade ^-1^ in. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 



rarely linear-lanceolate . . . . 3. G. hoveanum. 



Style not exceeding the anthers, truncate at the top . 

 Leaves petiolate; coronal-lobes subulate, curved at 



the apex like a fish-hook . . . . 4. G. Reroili. 



Leaves subsessilc; coronal-lobes broad, obtuse or 



cmarginate , 5. G. T/irujipii. 



1. G. lineare, JJeote. in J)C. Prod. viii. ^Tif). A slender auima]. 

 Stem erect, unbranched, 6-15 in. high, slightly rough with minute 

 points, drying pale. Leaves spreading; petiole 1-2 lin. long; Made 

 j-2 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute at Ijotli 

 ends, glabrous, but usually rough with minute points on tli^ revolute 

 margins and midrib beneath. Flowers solitary in one axil of a pair of 

 leaves, decurved ; pedicels ^-J lin. long. Sepals 4,-J lin. long, laDceo- 

 late, acute, glabrous. Corolla Ij lin. long, glabrous; lobes twice ns 

 long as the tube or rather more, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Coronnl- 

 lobes subulate, one quarter as long as the corolla-lobes and arising nt the 

 top of the corolla-tube. Anthers terminated by a short soft subulate 

 mucro. Style exserted about y^ ^^- heyond the anther-appendages ; 

 apical part stout, conical, acute. Follicles 3-4 in. long, linear-terete, 

 acute, erect, smooth and glabrous, drying whitish. Seeds linear-oblong, 

 entire, both sides finely scrobiculate. — Conomiira linearis, Fenzl in 

 Endlicher Nov. Stirp. Dec. GO; K. Schum. in Engl, i^' Prantl, 

 Ptlanzenfam. iv. ii. 2'2i'). 



Ifflle I^and. Kordofan : Arashkol Mountain, Kofsc//t/,7S\ and without precise 

 lo. ality, KotscJiy, 35 ! 



2. G. nubicum, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 555. A dwarf herb 

 0-12 in. high, branching from the base, with a creeping rootstock 

 {Barter) ; stems, petioles and the lower or both sides of the leaves 

 pubescent with short white curved hairs. Leaves numerous, spreading 

 or ascending; petiole 2-4 lin. long; blade|-5 in. (usually 1-2 in.) long. 

 lJ-5 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse and 

 apiculate, often more or less sinuate or undulate along the margins. 

 Flowers 2-6 together in sessile subaxillary cymes; pedicels \-\ 

 lin. long. Sepals l-lj lin. long, nearly as long as the corolla, 

 pubescent. Corolla about 2 lin. in diam., white {Barter) ; tube caui- 

 panulate; lobes as long as the tube, spreading, ovate-oblong, obtus»>, 

 with a few hairs on the back, otherwise glabrous. Coronal-lobes about 

 as long as the corolla-lobes, ovate in the basal part, with incurved 

 margins, abruptly contracted at the middle into a subulate point, or 

 sometimes lanceolate, acuminate, both forms occurring in the same 

 flower. Anther-appendages membranous, broadly ovate or subquadratr. 



