Asclepias.] lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 327 



broad, somew}iat elliptic-oblong, very obtuse, narrowly reflexed along 

 the margins, recurved at the apex. Coronal-lobes arising U lin. above 

 the base of the staminal-column and overtopping it by about J of their 

 length, 3-3;^ lin. long about 1 lin. broad measured either way, erect, 

 fleshy, narrowly complicate or channelled down the inner face, very 

 convex on the back and slightly gibbous at the base, tapering upwards 

 into a linear channelled obtuse or bifid point. Staminal-column 3-3J 

 lin. long ; anther-appendages orbicular, erect and applied to the sides 

 of the terminal part of the style, which is truncate and depressed or 

 crater-like at the apex, and exceeds or is slightly shorter than the anther- 

 appendages. Pollen-carriers seated much below the apex of the style. — 

 Gomphocar2mslisia7ithoides,T)ecne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 ser. ix. 32r) ; K. 

 Schum. in Engl, ik Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 237. G. chironioides, 

 Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 562. Xysmalobium fritillarioides, Rendle in 

 Journ. Bot. 1894, 1G2; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 682. 

 Chlorostelma fritillarioides, Welw. ex Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1894, 

 162. 



Iio-wer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in thickets between Mompulla and Hnui- 

 pat s rare, Welwitsch, 4179 ! and without precise locality or indication of the 

 collector in Herb. Paris ! 



On comparing the type specimen of Qomphocarpus lisianthoides with that of 

 Xysmalohium f r Hill ario ides, Rendle, at the British Museum which consists of a 

 sketch of "VVelwitsch's unique specimen, 1 flower and 1 bud, I find that the two 

 are identical. According to Welwitsch the flowers are greenish-yellow, 'i he 

 species has the habit and general appearance of Schizoqlossum Carsoni, N. E. Br., but 

 the coronal-lobes are quite different, being distinctly (although narrowly) com- 

 plicate, somewhat as in A. dissoluta, Schlechter, in which the flowers are similar in 

 structure. 



Ill Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 382, Gomphocarpus lisianthoides is also recorded by Dr. 

 Schumann from the foot-hills of Kivira Valley, in the Umtali district of Up])er 

 Kondeland, German East Africa (Goetze, 1476), but I have not seen a specimen. 



14. A. semilunata, X. E. Br. Stems 2-5 ft. high, tomentose 

 in the upper part. Lower leaves usually 3-4 in a whorl, upper 

 opposite; petiole lJ-4 lin. long; blade 4-7 in. long, \-'^ in. broad, 

 linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, more or less rounded or 

 somewhat tapering at the base, narrowly revolute along the margins, 

 glabrous. Umbels pedunculate, lateral at the nodes ; peduncles 1-H 

 in. long, tomentose ; bracts 5-7 lin. long, linear, acuminate, tomentose, 

 deciduous; pedicels 5-11 lin. long. Sepals 2-3 lin. long, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, tomentose. Corolla 5-lobea nearly to the base ; lobes 

 reilexed, 4-5 lin. long, '^\-^l: lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subacute, 

 glabrous on both sides, ciliate along one margin. Coronal -lobes 

 arising \ lin. above the base of the staminal-column and shorter, 

 1-1;^ lin." long and the same in breadth, complicate-cucullate, truDcate, 

 with the apical margin denticulate and having a short straight tooth 

 directed backwards at about one third the way along it on either 

 side within, often from the bottom within arises a small, compressed, 

 erect tooth :J-f the length of the sides of the lobe, sometimes 

 rudimentary or absent. Follicles large and very inflated 2i-3 in. long, 



