?A)H Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE.*: (brown). [X i/smalobiu7ii . 



flowered; peduncles subequal, |-1 in. long, whitish- tomentose ; bracts 

 about 2 lin. long, subulate, deciduous, densely pubescent ; pedicels J-| 

 in. long, whitish-tomentose. Sepals 2 J lin. long, | lin. broad, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, pubescent on the back. Corolla Ipbed nearly to the 

 base, campanulate, apparently white, glabrous outside, densely bearded 

 within on the upper half with white hairs ; lobes 2J-2| lin. long, 1|- 

 lin. broad, oblong or ovate-oblong, sub -acute, recurved at the tips. 

 Coronal-lobes arising at the base of the staminal-column and a little 

 shorter than it, erect, IJ-lJ lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ovate-rhomboid, 

 obtuse, dorsally flattened, moderately thick and fleshy, with a slight 

 obtuse keel down the inner face; alternating with them are 5 minute 

 teeth. Staminal-column If lin. long, with the filaments free above the 

 attachment of the coronal-lobes ; anther-appendages ovate, subobtuse, 

 inflexed over the truncate apex of the style. 



ZiO'wer Guinea. Angola : Amboella ; at the moutli of the Kiver Kuebe, 

 3700 ft., £aum, 332 ! 



12. X. augolense, Scott- Elliot in Journ. Bot. 1890, 365. Stem 

 1-2 ft. high, stout, erect, thinly pubescent with curved hairs. Leaves 

 ascending or incurved-ascending; petiole 1-3 lin. long ; blade 2J-9 in. 

 long, \-\ in. broad at the base, gradually tapering from the 

 truncate or subhastate base to an acuminate point, more or less 

 scabrid on both sides ; margins slightly thickened, not revplute, 

 scabrid. Umbels pedunculate, several-flowered, lateral and terminal or 

 somewhat clustered at the top of the stem ; peduncles ^-| in. long, 

 pubescent ; pedicels 4-7 lin. long, pubescent ; bracts 3-5 lin. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. Sepals 3-o| lin. long, 1-1 ^ 

 lin. broad, erect, flat or with revolute margins at the base, lanceolate, 

 acute, pubescent, " very pale yellow " (IVelwitsch). Corolla- lobes 5 lin. 

 long, 3 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, acute, concave, suberect, with recurved 

 tips, densely bearded with white hairs on the apical part within, other- 

 wise glabrous, " dull violet outside, whitish within " ( Wehvitsch). Coro- 

 nal-lobes arising at the base of the staminal-column, 1^-- li^- loiig and 

 the same in breadth, erect, fleshy, broadly ovate or subcordate-ovate. 

 subobtuse, flattened, with recurved margins at the base, keeled on the 

 face, " violet '" (Wehvitsch). Anthers erect, oblong, their appendages 

 ovate, acute, erect, a,pplied to the sides of the apical part of the style ; 

 this last is 1 J-1 J lin. long, stout, very obtuse or slightly dilated at the 

 top, produced beyond the anther appendages, "violet" (Wehvitsch). 

 Follicles 2-2 J in. long, 6-7 J lin. thick, lanceolate, acute, setose and 

 pubescent. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 232 ; 

 Hiern. in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 682. X. prismatostigma^ K. Schum. 

 in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 120, and in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 

 232. 



XiOixrer Guinea. Angohi : Hullhi ; in damp meadows near Humpata, and 

 swampy places along streams near Huilla, Welwitsch, 4170 ! in the damp pastures of 

 Catumba, towards Ohai, Welwitsch, 4171 ! Malange, Medio w, 329 ! 



13. X. sessile, Decne. in DC. Prod, viii. 519. Stem herbaceous, 



