?>]2 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE.1^ (brown). [Xysmalobium. 



glrinrous. Corolla 1 4-I ^ ^^- ^^ diam., campanulate, 5-lobefl almost to 

 the base, glabrous, dark purple- brown, speckled and streaked with white 

 or occasionally entirely dark purple-brown within; lobes 10-13 lin. long, 

 ()-7 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse. Coronal-lobes arising 2-2| lin. above 

 the base of the staminal-column and reaching to its top or slightly 

 exceeding it, 1 J-2 lin. long, erect, white, very stout, fleshy, oblong or 

 suborbicular, about as thick as broad, very convex on the back, flat 

 with 2 narrow keels on the inner face, obtusely rounded at the apex, 

 which is usually (always?) horizontally produced over the tips of the 

 anthers into a short stout beak, on each side of which the margin is 

 produced into a short deltoid tooth, also directed towards the anthers. 

 Staminal-column 3|-41 lin. long; anther-appendages broadly ovate, 

 obtuse or subacute, inflexed over the apex of the style. — K. Schum. in 

 Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 425. 



XWEozamb* I>ist. Britisli Central Africa : Urungu ; Fwainbo, Carson, 62 ! 

 NvasalfJiid ; M:inganja Hills, near Sochi, 3000 ft., Kirk ! Blantyre, Buchanan, 43 ! 

 Namasi, Cameron, 12 ! and without precise locality, Sitchanan, 603 ! Northern 

 KhocWin, Berrington ! 



Tins species, together wit'i A', spaihz'latiim X. Vj. Br., X. grande^ N. E. Br., and 

 X. CecilcBy N. E. Br., fonn a little group veiy similar in appearance, having larger 

 flowers than any other members of the genus. The keels and teeth on the inner face 

 of the coronal-lohes in this species and in X. spathulatum, establish their connection 

 w itli Aftclepias, but on iiccount ot the very thick flesliy nature of the coronal-lobes 

 and the cl().«e affinity of tliese species with .Y. Cecilce (whi( h has no teeth or keels on 

 the lobes), they ?eem to me better placed under Xysmalobium. 



The plant enumerated as Schizoglossnm spathttJ atum by K, Scliumann in Ergler, 

 Jahrbiiciier, xxviii. 454, which was collected by Goetze (718) in Uhelie, German East 

 Africa, probably belongs here, rather than to X. spathnlatnm, N. ¥,. Br., although 

 Schumann regards these two as one species. See note under the latter. 



18. X. spathulatum, X. E. Br. Stem .stout, 14-18 in. high, 

 simple, solitary, with one pubescent line alternating at the nodes. 

 Leaves spreading; petiole 2-5 lin. long; blade IJ-SJ in. long, |-2 in. 

 broad, cuneate-oblong or oblong, truncate retuse or very broadly 

 rounded at the apex, minutely apiculate, cuneate-acute .at the base, both 

 sides glabrous ; veins horizontally spreading. Umbels solitary and ter- 

 minal, or several lateral and terminal, the upper nearly or quite sessile, 

 the lower more or less pedunculate, 3-4-flowered ; peduncles up to 1 in. 

 long, pubescent ; bracts l|-4 lin. long, subulate, glabrous ; pedicels 

 |-1 in. long, pubescent along one side. Sepals 3-4J lin. long, 2-3 lin. 

 broad, ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute, glabrous. Corolla cam- 

 panulate ; lobes 6-11 lin. long, 4-0 lin, broad; oblong, obtuse, gla- 

 brous, whitish, densely spotted or speckled with purple. Coronal-lobes 

 arising 2|^-3 lin. above the base of the staminal-column and reaching 

 only to about the middle of the anthers, 1-1 J Hn. long and the same in 

 breadth, about 1 lin. thick, fleshy, orbicular, very convex on the back, 

 just below the rounded apex is a short erect horn on the face, with a 

 small tooth produced from the margin on each side of it at or below the 

 middle. Anther-appendages elliptic-ovate, obtuse or subacute, inflexed 

 over the apex of the style. — SchizogJoss^cni spathv.latvm, K. Schum. in 



