32(5 LXXXY. ASCLEPiADE.E (brown). [Asclepios. 



stnminal-column and J longer than it, 4 lin. long, erect, gibbous on each 

 •side at about \ the way up from the base, apical half concave-com- 

 plicate, oblong-ovate, obtuse, margins just above the middle produced 

 over the apex of the style into falcate and acute, or linear-oblong, 

 truncate or obtuse teeth, within the middle of the face of the lobe an 

 erect, snbu'ate and acute, or compressed linear-oblong, obtuse or truncate 

 horn, Ih lin. long. Staminal-column 3 lin. long; anther-appendages 

 orbicular-oblong, obtuse, inflexed over the apex of the style. 



IVIozaml}. I>lst. Bi'ltish Central Africa : Nyasaland : Magoinera, 3000 ft., 

 Waller ! near Blantyre, Last! Chikala, 2000 ft., Furves, 74 ! and without precise 

 loca'iry, Buchanan, 411 ! 553 ! 



" lioot tubirous, eatable, beans eatable," Waller. A very handsome speciis, the 

 flowers appear to be carmine or scarlet-red, with a yellow corona. 



12. A. gigantiflora, ^\ E. Br. Stems probably attaining a 

 height of 2-3 ft., branched at the base. Leaves sessile or subsessile, 

 3^-01^ in. long, 1-3J lin. broad, elongate-lanceolate or linear, acuminate, 

 glabrous, pubescent on the revolute margins and midrib. Umbels 

 several, lateral and terminal, about 3-flowered ; peduncles 1-^—4 in. long, 

 pubescent along one side. Bracts 2-8 lin. long, linear, acuminate, ciliate ; 

 pedicels 1^-2 in. long, pubescent along the inner side. Sepals 4|— 7J 

 lin. long, 1^-3 J lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate, acute, more or less 

 pubescent on the back. Corolla rotate, l\-^\ in. in diam. or rather 

 more ; lobes f-1 in. long, 4-4 J lin. broad, oblong, acute, glabrous on 

 both sides. Coronal-lobes arising IJ lin. above the base of the staminal- 

 column and much overtopping it, 4J-7J lin. long, complicate in the 

 apical part, solid below, obliquely truncate, with the inflexed margins 

 produced into falcate teeth, curved upwards over the tips of the anthers, 

 no horn within. — Stathmostehiui gigantiflorum, K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xvii. 129, t. 6, fig. A-C ; in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322; and 

 in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 240 and 241, fig. 70, A-C ; 

 Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 333. 



Wile Iiand. British East Africa : Makindu Mountains, Scott-ElUot, 6283 ! 



IVIozaxnb. Dist. German East Africa : near Rekoma, Bohm, 24. 



I have not seen tlie type of this plant ; the petioles are stated to be op to 4^ lines 

 Innjr, but the leaves are represented as subsessile or with very short petioles in tlie 

 fijjure. The smaller dimensions in tlie above description are taken from Scott- 

 Elliot's specimen, which appears to be identical with Bohm's pLmt except in tlie size 

 of the tlowers. 



13. A. lisianthoides, JSf. E. Br. Stem erect, simple, 10 in. or 

 more high, with one puberulous line alternating at the nodes. Leaves 

 more or less recurving, subsessile, 2|-4 in. long, lJ-3 lin. broad, linear, 

 acute, glabrous. Umbels lateral at the nodes and terminal, racemose 

 along the upper part of the stem, pedunculate, 3-4-flowered ; peduncles 

 |-J in. long ; bracts 1| lin. long, subulate; pedicels G-7 lin. long, 

 glabrous. Sepals lJ-1 jlin. long, f-f lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, glabrous. Corolla large, lobed nearly to the base, quite 

 glabrous ; lobes apparently campanulately spreading, f in. long, J in. 



