Calotro}7is] Lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 295 



Wallich. Asclepias procera, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 12G3; Schumach. &i 

 Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 154. A. giganiea, Jacq. Obs. Bot. iii. 17, 

 t. G9 ; Andrews, Bot. Rep. iv. t. 271 ; Brunner in Flora, 1840, i. 

 Beibl. 18. 



Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Islands: BoUe ! WeUvitsch, 4180 Voqel, 

 Kraitse, and Smithy 187 (ex Krause). North bank of the River Gmnhiii, Ozanne, :\ \ 

 Sencgambia and Cape Vcrd, Brunner, 54 ! Senegal, Lepriettr, Robert (ex Decaisne). 

 Fernando Po, Mann, 238 ! 



Nile I.and. Nnbia: El Me>herif, Schweinfurth, 580! Eiltrr a : Monknllo, 

 near Massowa, Schweinftirth ScRiva,2lQ\ 236! Oiwmho, Penziq ; hills of Sauti, 

 Penzig; Arkiko, Penzig ; Ghinda, Penzig ; Keren, Penzig ; Kordofan, Ko/schy, 

 24* ! Abyssinia: Hatr.edo Plain, Schimper, 920; near Jelajeranne, Schimper, G56 I 

 Somaliland, Mir.s Pldith Cole I Smith! Riva and Rohecchi-Brichetti, 107 (ex 

 Schumann). Uganda: Madi, Speke Sf Grant, 163! near Lake Baringo, 3400 ft., 

 Johnston! by the River Tarawell (Turkwel), 1500 ft., Hohnel. Hritish East 

 Africa : Witu, Thomas, 191 ! 



Mozamb. Blst. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1004 ! German East Africa : Lake 

 Rukwa Region; near Manda Village in Uinanda district, 2600 ft., Ooetze, 1105 (ex 

 Schumann). 



Also extends through Egypt and Arabia into India. 



17: KANAHIA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 760. 



Calyx 5 partite. Corolla 5-lobed to half-way down or nearly to the 

 base; lobes ascending, spreading or reflexed, slightly overlapping to the 

 left in the bud. Corona of 5 lobes arising from the staminal-column, 

 either very thick and fleshy, solid and produced into a short horizon- 

 tally inflexed subulate entire or bifid beak at the apex, or more or le88 

 complicate or cleft down the inner face. Staminal-column arising from 

 the bottom of the corolla ; anthers erect, with membranous appendages 

 inflexed over the apex of the style. Pollen-masses pendulous, solitary 

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

 horizontal caudicles. Apex of the style with a convex central bo.ss 

 surrounded by a depressed ring and with 5 very minute tubercles close 

 to the pollen-carriers. Follicles fusiform-lanceolate or somewhat ovoid, 

 somewhat rugulose (always?), but not echinate. Seeds crowned with a 

 tuft of hairs. — Shrubs with straight erect branches and milky juice. 

 Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate or linear, with minute bristles in 

 their axils. Inflorescence lateral at the nodes, with the i)eduncles 

 racemosely scattered along the upper part of the branches ; flowers 

 spirally arranged around the slightly thickened apical part of the 

 peduncle, which becomes more or less elongated into a flowering axis, 

 pedicellate, bracteate, developing successively, never strictly umbellate. 



Species 4, all very similar in general appearance and closely relited. cxtendicg lo 

 Arabia. 



By its floral structure Kanahia cannot be dislinguisl.cd from Xysmalobium on 

 the one hand and Asclepias on the other. Yet as it is easily distinguisl.cd fn.in 

 both those genera by its inflorescence and by the presence of minute bnstles m the 

 axils of the leaves, I deem it best to retain it on those grounds. In Asclepias nml 



