208 Lxxxv. asclepiadete (brown). \Kanahia. 



curved over the tips of the anthers and sometimes only level ; 

 5 small teeth alternate with the lobes at their base are more or less 

 incurved and hidden under the basal parts of the anther-wings. 

 Staminal-column 2-2i lin. long ; anther-appendages roundish-ovate, 

 obtuse, inflexed over the apex of the style. Pollen-masses (excluding 

 the caudicles) |-| lin. long, i lin. broad, turgid. Follicles solitary 

 (always ?), '2-2}^ in. long, 4-5 lin. thick, lanceolate, acute or tapering 

 into a beak, glabrous. Seeds (not seen mature), ovoid, narrowed into a 

 beak, channelled on one side, very turgid on the other, smooth or nearly 

 so, crowned with a tuft of hBir^.^Gomphocaiyus glaherrimus, Oliver in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 110, t. 120; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 

 12G, and xxviii. 456; in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 236, and 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322. Asclepias glaherrima, Schlechter in 

 Journ. Bot. 1895, 335. 



irile liand. Uganda : near Lake Baringo, Johnston ! British East Africa : 

 Ukamba ; by the River Adi, Hildehrandt, 2609 ! Nyika country near Mombasa, 

 Wakefield ! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : among rocks at the Rapids of Cambambe, on the 

 River Kuanza, Monteiro ! 



Mozaxnb. Blst. German East Africa : Usambara ; Umba Valley, Smith 1 

 Aniboni, Solst, 2914 ! Darema, Scheffier, 130 ! Khutu ; bed of the River Mgasi, 

 1000 ft., Goetze^ 134; and Usukuma ; near the River Simiu, Fischer, 386 (ex 

 Schumann); Usagara ; Marenga Mkali, S2:>eke ^ Grant ! Portuguese East Africa: 

 Lower Zaiiibosi, Tete, KirJc ! Matabeleland : bed of the River Sliasha, Baines ! 



o. K. consimilis, N. E. Br. Stems, leaves, inflorescence, and 

 flowers exactly as in K. glaherrima, except the following characters. 

 — Coronal-lobes shorter than the staminal-column, 1-lJ lin. long, 

 oblong, somewhat obliquely truncate at the top, complicate, with the 

 apical angles of the inflexed sides more or less produced, acute. Pollen- 

 masses long and narrow, | lin. long (excluding the caudicles), ^V"?* ^^"• 

 broad, much compressed ; caudicles rather longer and more slender than 

 those of K, glaherrima. Follicles 1-1\ in. long, -J-| in. thick, turgid 

 or somewhat inflated, ovoid, obtuse or with a short recurved point. 

 Seeds 1-J-l J lin. long. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : on an island in the Obo-Oba River, Millen ! 

 Idagun, on river-banks, Rowland ! Camerocns : Lobe River, near Batanga, on 

 rocks left bare by low water. Bates, 322 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 1294 ! Johann- 

 Albreclits Hohc, Slaudt, 603 ! and without precise locality, Preuss, 1364 ! 



This has been distributed from Berlin as Gomphocarpus fruticostis, a widely 

 different plant. It is very similar to K. glaherrima in general appearance, but the 

 policn-niasses and short turgid follicles readily distinguish it. From the Arabian 

 K. Forskalii, Decne. it differs in its much more deeply bifid coronal-lobes and long 

 narrow compressed pollen-masses, which in K. Forskalii are only \ lin. long and 

 (juite half as broad as long and are also less compressed than in K. consimilis. 



18. XYSMALOBIUM, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 752. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, campanulate, 

 subrotate or reflexed ; lobes overlapping to the left or rarely sub val vale 



