Asclepias.] lxxxv. asclepiade.e (brown). /rj'd 



Follicles 3-4 in. long, 2 in. in diam., inflated, ellipsoid, obtuse, 

 smooth, glabrous. — Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-Exped. :>0H ; 

 Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. xvi. G8 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. G85. A. lineolatus, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 19U2. 200. 

 GoTiiphocaiyus lineolatus, Deene. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 ser, ix. (1H;3h) 

 320, and in DC. Prod. viii. 558 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xvii. 120; in Eugl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322, and in Engl, ct Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 237; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, i. 1!)3; 

 De Wild, k Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. ii. 41. G. bisaccidatus^ 

 Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ii. 341. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Protectorate : Nupe, Barter, 1323 a ! 



JTlle Xiand. Jur : Jur Gh:jtt:is, Schioeinfurth, 2000 ! Boii^'o : I)y the River 

 Moroko, Schioeinfurth, 3982 ! by the River Lehssi, Schioeinfurth, lOOO ! U^iiiula : bv 

 tlie River Wiini, 6000 ft , Scott-Elliot, 7881 ! British East Africa: near Mumbasa, 

 Wakefield ! Hildebrandi, 19 J 3 ! 



£o\eer Guinea. Lower Congo : nehr Dolo, Schlechter, 12807 (ex Schlechter), 

 and without precise locality, Laurent, 10-1 (ex Durand ^ Schinz). Angola : 

 C izen JO ; by the River Luze, Welioilsch, 4:1^2 \ Puiigo Aiulongo ; near rivers and 

 in thicket-s, Wehoitsch, 41^3! 4184! 4185! 4186! 4187! Huiila ; busl.v places 

 between Erne and Quipungo, Welwitsch, 4192 ! in the territory of Cahnngulu, 

 Marqtce.9, 203 (ex Henriques) ; Ainboella ; by the Kubango River, above Kniniarva, 

 3600 ft., Baum, 460 ! 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Luazi, Luja, (ex De Wild, tj- Durand). 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, 3600-5000 ft., Johnston f 

 Vol kens, 2129 I Portuguese East Africa: Shupanga, A'i>^ .' banks of the River 

 Shire near Morambala, Kirk, 74! British Central Afrira : Urungu; Fwambo, 

 Carson, 41 ! 61 ! Nyasaland ; Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whi/te ! Mount 

 Mlai.ji, Scott-Elliot, 8668 ! Purves, 92 ! Chikala, 2000 ft., Furves, 9 ! Shire 

 Valley, Waller/ Rhodesia: huluwdyo. Rand / near Salisbury, J?an(/ .' Hon. Mrs. 

 Evelyn Cecil, 66 ! Leshumo Valley, Holtib, 550 ! 



0. A. Schweinfiirthii, X. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1S05, 25;]. 

 Stems 2 ft, or more high, simple, pubescent. Leaves spreading ; petiole 

 1-2 lin. long ; blade 2-3J in. long, 1-2J in. broad, cordate, obtuse, or 

 lanceolate-ovate with a cordate base and subobtuse apex, apiculate, gla- 

 brous, slightly rough beneath, narrowly revolute and scabrid at the 

 margins. Umbels i-G-flowered, lateral ; peduncles 1 J-.')^ in. long, 

 pubescent ; bracts 3-5 lin. long, linear-subulate, pubescent ; pedicels 

 8-12 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 4 lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, 

 acute, pubescent. Corolla rotate-campanulate, 1 in. or rather more in 

 diam. ; lobes h in. long, 3-3J lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, acute, puberulous 

 on the back, ciliolate on one margin. Coronal-lobes radiately ascending 

 from the base of the staminal-column and attaining to the sjime level as 

 it, 3-3| lin. long, l|-2 lin. high, complicate, produced at the apex 

 beyondthe broad hatchet-shaped wings or sides of the complicate part 

 into a short oblong obtuse lobe. Staminal-column '2), lin. long ; antiier- 

 appendages subreniform or suborbicular, obtuse, inflexed over the trun- 

 cate apex of the style. — A. liiieolata, Schlechter in Journ. Bet. I.'^lk), 

 33G, partly. 



