202 Lxxxv. ASCLEPIADE.E (brown). [Glossonema . 



obtnse or slightly emarginate. Style exserted beyond the antber- 

 apppndages ; apical part cylindric or conoid, obtuse or emarginate. 

 Follicles Ij in. long, 5 lin. thick, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 echinate, pubescent. Seeds ovate, slightly denticulate on the margin, 

 both sides covered with radiating lines of minute points. — K. Sebum, 

 in Engl. Sl Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 226. G. boveanum, Kotschy ex 

 Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 555, not of Decne. 



iirile Xiand. Kordofan : in savannahs at Kohn Mountain, towards Tekole, 

 Kofschy, 405 ! 



Upper Guinea. Lagos, Barter! ' Niger Territory: Borgu; Wawe, Barter 

 723 ! Nupe ? 8are, Barter, 3434 ! Bornu, Vogel, 88 ! 



3. G. boveanum. Decne in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, ix. 335, t. 12, 

 fig. D. A dwarf herb 3-10 in. high, branching from the base. Stems 

 ascending, more or less pubescent with white hairs. Leaves spreading ; 

 petiole 1-G lin. long; blade J-li in. long, lJ-7 lin. broad, ovate, or 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, cuneately narrowed or broadly 

 rounded into the petiole at the base, more or less undulate or crisped on 

 the margins, thinly or densely white-pubescent on both sides or glabrous 

 above. Flowers 1-3 together, sublateral ; pedicels 1-1 J lin. long, 

 white-pubescent. Sepals IJ-lJ lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent. 

 Corolla-tube 1 lin. long, campanulate ; lobes spreading, I2-2 lin. long, 

 J-1 lin. broad, oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, slightly 

 thickened above or subtuberculate near the apex, with the margins 

 re(;urved, glabrous or w^ith a few hairs on the back. Coronal-lobes 

 arising a short distance below the sinuses of the corolla, l|-2 lin. long, 

 2 lin. broad in the broadly oblong basal half, 3-lobed, with the middle 

 lobe long and filiform, or subtruncately or somewhat abruptly contracted 

 into a filiform or subulate point, or occasionally filiform-acuminate. 

 Staminal-column 1 lin. long ; . anther-appendages reniform, very 

 obtuse. Style protruded for about | lin. beyond the anther-appendages ; 

 apical part stout, conical, obtuse or shortly bifid. Follicles IJ-^ 

 in. long, 7-11 lin. thick, ovoid, acute, strongly echinate, minutely 

 pubescent or nearly glabrous. Seeds about 2 lin. long, 1^ lin. broad, 

 ovate, flattened, very minutely scaberulous, dark brown.— 6^. affine, N. 

 E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 249. Petalosteinma Chenopodii, R. Br. 

 in Salt Voy. Abyss. Append, Ixiv., name only. 



IVile Iiand. Periin IsUnul, in tlic Red Sea, Farmer/ Nubia: sea-coast to 

 between 3000 nnd 4000 ft., Bent ! Hor Tanianib, Lord ! Eritrea: around Saati, 

 Schweinfnrfh <f* Rira, 584! Aby-sinia : at tbe foot of mountains by tbe River 

 Tacazze, near (rursarfa, 3000-3300 ft., Schimj)er, 2219 ! and without precise 

 locality. Salt ! 



Also in Egypt and Arabia. 



The specimens collected by Bent demonstrate that the Abyssinian plant! described 

 as G. affine cannot be maintained as di-<tinct from G. boveanum. 



4. G. Revoili, Franch. Sert. Somal. 40, t. 3. A dwarf herb 

 under a foot high, densely tomentose in all parts except the corolla. 

 Leaves numerous, spreading; petiole 2-7 lin. long; blade i-2 in. long, 



