'M)(') Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (browx). [Xysmalobium. 



(l-8-flowered ; bracts 2-3J lin. long, subulate, pubescent ; pedicels 

 5-10 lin. long, subtomentose. Sepals 3^-4 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 

 erect, as long as or exceeding the corolla-lobes, narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, shortly hairy ,^ cam panulately spreading. Corolla f) lin. in diam., 

 campanulate, o-lobed almost to the base ; "dull whitish- violaceous " 

 (Welwitsch) ; lobes 3 lin. long, lj-2 lin. broad, ovate, subacute and 

 slightly complicate at the apex, minutely pubescent on the back. 

 Coronal-lobes arising at the base of the staminal-column and about 

 equalling it in length, 1 J lin. long, connivent-erect, thick and fleshy, 

 with a short thick stalk and a rhomboid blade, obtuse or subacute, 

 with a grooved rhomboid depression on the back, and a keel from each 

 side on the inner face directed downwards and meeting at the centre, 

 enclosing a diamond-shaped area that is obtusely keeled down the 

 middle or convex, the sides of the stalks confluent at the base under 

 the very broad horny wings of the anthers ; anthers connivent, their 

 appendages roundish-ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the apex of the style. 

 — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 682. 



Iio-wer Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in sandy pastures among bushes near 

 Ferrao tLi Sola, Welwitsch, 4193 ! 



0. X. trilobatum, ^V. B. Br. Stem erect, simple, stout, softly 

 hairy. Leaves spreading or ascending ; petiole 2-3 lin. long ; blade 

 4-() in. long, 1-2 in. broad, elongate-ovate- lanceolate, sometimes very 

 narrow and attenuate, acute, subcordate at the base, more or less un- 

 dulate, somewhat scabrous above, at first pubescent beneath, becoming 

 slightly scabrous. Umbels several, lateral and terminal, mostly clustered 

 at the top of the stem, 10-15-flowered ; peduncles erect, f-lf in. long, 

 villous-tomentose ; bracts 4-5 lin. long, subulate or filiform, shortly 

 villous; pedicels 6-8 lin. long, villous-tomentose. Sepals 4 lin. long, 

 1 lin. broad, exceeding the corolla, lanceolate, acuminate, flat, villous- 

 pubescent on the back, glabrous within. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed 

 nearly to the base ; lobes erect, 3 lin. long, 1| lin. broad, ovate, obtusely 

 pointed, concave in the lower part, recurved-spreading at the tips, dull 

 purple, sparsely pubescent outside on the apical half, glabrous within. 

 Coronal-lobes J lin. long, 1 lin. broad, sessile at the base of the staminal- 

 column, erect, reaching only to the base of the anthers, fleshy, broadly 

 subreniform-deltoid, obtuse, sometimes with a faint constriction just 

 below the apex, flat, with their margins recurved at the base. Staminal- 

 column 2 lin. long, its filament part about | lin. long. — Woodia trilobata^ 

 Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 337. 



Nile Xiand. Uganda : Kavirondo ; Nandi Range, in wet places, 7000-8000 ft., 

 Scott-Elliot, 6877 ! 



Schlechter describes the coronal-lobes as " trilobulate, with suborbicular obtuse 

 lobules, subequal in size, the intermediate one erect, the lateral divaricate." I do 

 not find them so in the numerous flowers of his type that 1 have examined. The 

 sides of the lobes at their base are abruptly bent back, so that Upon a superficial 

 examination they may appear as lateral lobules, and sometimes there is a faint con- 

 sti'iction on each side just below the apex, which thus appears to be slightly produced, 

 but I have seen none that I should describe as trilobulate. 



