Xysmcdobium.'] Lxxxv. asclepiade.e (brown). 805 



petiole 2-4 lin. long ; blade 8-3^ in. long, 4-7 lin. broad, oblong-lanceo- 

 late or narrowly cuneate-oblanceolate, about equally acute at each end, 

 glabrous, slightly thickened at the margin, whitish-green beneath. 

 Umbels several, lateral at the nodes, sessile, 6-8-flowered ; pedicels 4-7 

 lin. long, pubescent with minute curved hairs. Sepals 2 lin. long, ovate, 

 acute, glabrous. Corolla 6 lin. in diam., 5-lobed almost to the base ; 

 lobes campanulately spreading, 3 J lin. long, 1^ lin. broad, oblong, sub- 

 obtuse, concave, apparently tinted with purplish, with opaque whitish 

 membranous margins. Coronal-lobes arising at the base of thestaniinal- 

 column and much shorter than it, 1| lin. long,, oblong, or rhomboid- 

 oblong, fleshy, obtusely pointed, with a rather stout keel down the inner 

 face, flattened or somewhat concave on the back, erect, but confluent and 

 resting on the corolla at the base where each is united to the staminal- 

 column by a rather large keel which ends very abruptly and is slightly 

 dilated and sometimes furrowed at the truncate free end. Staminal- 

 column about 3 lin. long ; anther appendages membranous, erect, over- 

 topping the style, very conspicuous, 1 lin. long, lA lin. broad, orbicular- 

 reniform. Follicles (unripe), fusiform, with a long beak, tapering 

 into a long stipes at the base, smooth, glabrous. — X. headelotkuntm, 

 Scott-Elliot in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 92, not of Decaisne. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: on dry rocky liills, 3600 ft., 3 miles south of 

 Falaba, Scott-Ell iot, 5184 ! Port Lokko, Scott-Elliot, 5183 ! 



7. X. fraternum, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 189-"), 252. Stem 

 erect, herbaceous, pubescent with short curved hairs. Leaves mode- 

 rately spreading ; petiole li-2 lin. long, pubescent; blade \h-'2h in. 

 long, f-lj in. broad, elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or broadly 

 rounded at the apex, apiculate, acute or cuneately rounded at the base, 

 glabrous on both sides, narrowly revolute along the margins ; veins re- 

 ticulate, conspicuous. Umbels several, sessile, lateral between the 

 bases of the leaves ; bracts several, 2-3 lin. long, linear, acute ; pedicels 

 5-() lin. long, slender, pubescent like the stem. Sepals 2^-3 lin. long, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, sparsely ciliate. Corolla-lobes 3 lin. 

 long, 1^ lin, broad, ovate, acute, reflexed or spreading, glabrous. Coronal- 

 lobes arising at the base of the staminal column and as long as it, 1 }, lin, 

 long and nearly as broad, shortly stalked, subcordate-ovate, subacute, 

 fleshy, acutely keeled down the inner face ; keel enlarged or more 

 prominent at the apex. 



AfSozamb. I>lst. British Central Africa . Xyasal.iiul ; near Hlaiityre, Last ! 



This was confused with A", orhiculare, Deciie. (A', padifolium^ Scott-Elliot), in 

 the Journal of Botany 1890, 363, from whicli it is very distinct, 



8. X. rhomb oideuxn, N. E. Br. in Kew BaUetin, 1895, 251. 

 Stems simple, stout, tomentose. Leaves spreading: petiole H-2J lin. 

 long; blade lJ-3 in. long, 9-13 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtnse, 

 apiculate, cordate or rounded at the base, with a very sparse pubescence 

 on both sides and tomentose or pubescent midribs and petioles, narrowly 

 cartilaginous (not scabrous) on the margins. Umbels lateral, sessile, 



