322 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [Asclepias, 



covered with minute rust-coloured jointed hairs when young, glabrescent 

 with age, scabrid on the margins. Umbete lateral and terminal, 6-8- 

 flowered ; peduncles 1-2 in. long, pubescent like the stem, as are also 

 the 6-9 lin. long pedicels. Sepals 3 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 spreading or reflexed, rusty-puberulous. Corolla reflexed-rotate, about 

 1 in. in diam. ; lobes 5 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate, subacute or sub- 

 obtuse, with the apex minutely bifid, rusty-puberulous and purple- 

 brown on the outside, dull orange within. Coronal-lobes arising 1 lin. 

 above the base of the staminal-column and reaching to its top, 2 lin. 

 long, compressed, subquadrate viewed sideways, with the inner side 

 longest, truncate at the base, obliquely truncate at the top, produced 

 over the tips of the anthers into an acuminate beak, which is split to its 

 base like a pen-nib, otherwise the lobe is solid, yellowish with a narrow 

 dark purple projecting rim around the top and base ; a narrow wing 

 runs down from the beak near the inner margin on each side. Staminal- 

 column 3 lin. long. Anther-appendages rounded, obtuse, inflexed over 

 the apex of the style. — A. rubicunda, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 

 336. Gomphocarpus rubicundus, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 382. 



KTile Iiand. Uganda: Buddu, on a dry plateau, aSco/^-^'^Zio^, 74-43! on dry 

 grHs*y hills on the east side of Lake Albei-t Kdward, Scott Elliot, 8088 ! and with- 

 out precise localit} , inison, 112 ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Unyika ; Uwurungu Mountain, 7200 

 ft., Goefze, 1456 (ex Schumann). 



Eemarkable for its close rusty pubescence. 



T). A. lineolata^ Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 336 partly. 

 Roots fleshy, fusiform, fascicled. Stems stout, 2-4 ft. high, more or 

 less hairy in the upper part. Leaves ascending or spreading ; petiole 

 \-\ in. long; blade 2-4^ in. long, f-2 in. broad, or the uppermost 

 sometimes only \-\ in. broad, oblong, ovate-oblong, or occasionally the 

 upper ones lin"ear-o"^blong, obtuse or subacute, apiculate, cordate, emar- 

 ginate or rounded at the base, both sides scaberulous, narrowly revolute 

 and scabrous along the margins. Umbels several; lateral and terminal, 

 pedunculate, 4-10-flowered ; peduncles |-5J in. (usually 2-3 in.) long, 

 more or less pilose ; bracts 1 J-4 lin. long, pilose ; pedicels \-\\ in. long, 

 pilose. Sepals 3-3-| liii. long, lanceolate, acute, or attenuate, pilose. 

 Corolla about 1 in. or rather more in diam., rotate or the lobes slightly 

 reflexed ; lobes 5-6 lin. long, 3-3J hn. broad, oblong-ovate, acute, pilose 

 or puberulous on the back, more or less ciliolate, veined with rosy- 

 purple on a whitish green ground, varying from white to purple {Wel- 

 witsch). Coronal-lobes arising from the base of the staminal-column 

 and \ shorter or almost equalling it in length, 2|— 3 lin. long, purple, 

 spreading, closely complicate, adnate to the column up to the anthers, 

 produced at the apex into a stout, <^onical, complicate, erect or incurved 

 tooth or point, between which and the base the margins rise into broad 

 deltoid obtuse erect teeth, with their inner edges pressed against the 

 back of the anthers, with a wing-like flap or ridge forming a small 

 pocket on each side of the lobe at the base of the apical tooth. Anther- 

 appendages very broad, rounded, inflexed over the apex of the style. 



