328 Lxxxv. AscLEPiADEiE (brown). [Asekjnas. 



lvl-1^ in. thick, half-moon shaped, straight on the inner face, very- 

 much curved on the outer, very obtuse, setose-echinate. Seeds ovoid, 

 turgid, grooved down one face, tuberculate. — A.denticulata, Schlechter 

 in Journ. Bot. 1895, 334; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PJ. Welw. i. 685. 

 Gomphocarjyus semilunatus, A. Rich. Tent. Fh Abyss, ii. 39 ; Engl. 

 Hochgebir^sfl. Trop. Afr. 341. G. 2^hysocarpus, K. Schum. in Engl. 

 Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322, not of E. Meyer. 



Srile Iiand. Abyssinia : Plain of Dembea, between Ifak and Gondar, 

 Schimper, 13-13 ! Jcnda, Stendner, 750 ! Ileb Valley, Steudner, 754 (ex JEngler) ; 

 Shireli Province, Dillon Sf Petit, 31! Uganda: Unyoro, Speke Sf Grant, QOQ\ 

 Madi, Sjjeke Sf Grant, 728 ! Berkeley B;.y, Scott- JSf Hot, 7089 ! Kampala, Scott^ 

 Elliot, 7310! Kuwenzori; Wimi, 6000-9000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7904! Semliki 

 Valley, Scott-Elliot, 8101 ! Usoga villages, Whyte ! Fifth day from Lubwas, 

 Whyte ! Mau Plateau, 8500-9500 ft., Whyte ! Cultivated ground, Wilson, 51 ! 



Iio-wer Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; in palm-swamps on the banks of the 

 River Quiapoze, Welwitsch, 4158 ! Libongo : in swamps around the lakes by the 

 banks of the River Lifune, Welwitsch, 4159 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State : Niamniam ; Wando, ou the River 

 Dyagbe, Schioeinfnrth, 3098 ! 



15. A. curassavica, Linn. Sjy. PI. i. 215. Stems 2-3 ft. high, 

 glabrous. Leaves spreading; petiole J-| in. long; blade 2J-5J in. 

 long, J-l] in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate-acute at the base, 

 glabrous. Umbels lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 6-12-flowered ; 

 peduncles 1-3 in. long, puberulous ; pedicels ^-J in. long, more or less 

 puberulous. Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, reflexed, puberulous. 

 Corolla reflexed, scarlet- red ; lobes 2|-3 lin. long, 1-^ lin. broad, oblong, 

 acute, glabrous. Coronal-lobes arising 1 lin. above the base of the 

 staminal-column and overtopping it by about J of their length, 1-2-2 

 lin. long, complicate, obliquely truncate, with a horn arising from the 

 base within, protruding for half its length, and curved forwards over 

 the top of the staminal-column, yellow. Anther-appendages orbicular 

 inflexed over the apex of the style. Follicles mostly solitary, 3-3|^ in. 

 long, about 5 lin. thick, lanceolate, acuminate into a beak, and tapering 

 into a stipe at the base, smooth, glabrous. Seeds 3 lin. long, 2 lin. 

 broad, elliptic, plano-convex, with a broad thin margin, minutely 

 tuberculate-lineate, dark brown. — Bot. Reg. i. t. 81 ; lioddiges, Bot. 

 Cab. t. 349 ; Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 506 ; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. 

 Brot. x. 141 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 239. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia, Christy ! Gold Coast : Aburi, Johnson ! Southern 

 Nigeria : Old Calabar, Holland, 124 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 48 ! 



liower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, 100C-20CO ft., Moller Sf Quintas (ex 

 Henrigues). 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Usambara ; Tanga, Heinsen, 129 ! 

 Portuguese East Africa : Zumbo, on the Zambesi, Baum, 1004 ! 



A native of Tropical America, now widely spread in the tropics. • 



10. A. physocarpa, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453. Stem 

 2-3 ft. (or more ?) high, branched, whitish-pubescent or subtomentulose 



