310 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE/E (broavn). [Xi/smalobiicm. 



flat on the inner face, with a nose-shaped median keel down the upper 

 half, on each side of the abrupt lower end of which is a short trans- 

 verse keel running to the margin, basal part also slightly keeled. 

 Staminal-column l|-2 lin. long and as much in diam. at the base, 

 broadly conical ; anther-appendages broadly subcordate-ovate, subacute, 

 infiexed over the depressed apex of the style ; anther-wings J lin. broad 

 and much projecting at the base. — Schizoglossum tricorniculatum, K. 

 Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 121, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iv. ii. 233 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 192. 



JtOvreT Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 4189! Malange, 

 Mechow, 355, 402! San Salvador; in the Steppe near Tunis, Bilttner, 406 (ex 

 Schumann). 



South Central. Lunda : near Mu«sumba, Pogge, 379, 380 (ex Schumann). 



1 have much hesitation in retaining this as specifically distinct from X. sessile, 

 Decne. 1 can discover no difference in the flowers, except tliat those of X. andon- 

 gense are rather smaller in all their parts tlian those of X. sessile, and tlie corolla 

 does not appear to be reflexed. In the form of the leaves and in indumentum how- 

 ever, the two specimens of X. andongense which I have examined distinctly differ 

 from the type specimen of X. sessile. In X. andongense the hairs are minute, 

 adpresied, mostly curved, and somewhat scattered, not at all dense, whilst in A'. 

 sessile they are rather long, very spreading and dense. 



15. X. Cecilae, N. E. Br. Stem erect, 1-1 J ft. high, stout, 

 about 2 lin. thick, simple, laxly leafy, puberulous along 2 lines 

 in the upper part, red. Leaves spreading, 1-1| in. apart ; petiole 

 IJ— 2 lin. long; blade 1|-2| in. long, C-10 lin. broad and probably 

 larger^ oblong, with parallel sides, obtuse, apiculate, shortly cuneate at 

 the base, coriaceous, glabrous on both sides, flat, smooth on the margins, 

 bluish-green, with a red midrib. Umbels sessile at the upper nodes, 

 2-4-fiowered ; pedicels 7-9 lin. long, puberulous down one side. Sepals 

 3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 

 large, campanulate, 5-lobed almost to the base, dull green, tinged with 

 bronze outside, glabrous ; lobes 1 in. long, 5-7 lin. broad, oblong or 

 slightly elliptic-oblong, very obtuse, incurved -erect, recurved at the 

 apex when alive, suberecft or slightly spreading when dried. Coronal- 

 lobes inserted 2 lin. above the base of the staminal-column and over- 

 topping it by half their length, 3J-4 lin. long, erect, fleshy, laterally 

 compressed, falcate-oblong in side view, perfectly truncate at the top, 

 which is produced over the top of the staminal-column into a shoit 

 beak, rounded at the base, slightly channelled down the inner face, 

 which is destitute of keels or teeth, green, with a yellowish apex, 

 according to a drawing of the flower. Staminal-column 3J-4 lin. long, 

 the anthers and filamental-tube being about equal in length, stout, 

 constricted under the anthers, dilated at the base ; anthers subquadrate, 

 with membranous orbicular appendages, inflexed over the rim of the 

 depressed-truncate apex of the style. Fruit not seen. 



Xtfozaml). Dist. Rhodesia : plentiful at Salisbury, Hon. Mrs. Eveli/n Cecil, 

 60! 



