Asclejnas.] Lxxxv. asclepiade.e (brown), 329 



in the upper part. Leaves opposite, ascending or spreading ; petiole 

 2-8 lin. long; blade 2-4 in. long, :^J-10 lin. broad, lanceolate, very- 

 acute, niucronulate, cuneately acute at the base, glabrous on both sides, 

 but with the petiole and sometimes the midrib more or less puberulous. 

 Umbels G-10-flowered ; peduncles sublateral or subaxillary, 1-1 i in. 

 long, whitish-pubescent at the top; pedicels 7-12 lin. long, whitish- 

 pubescent. Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. Co- 

 rolla 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes reflexed, about 3 lin. long, 

 2-2tI lin. broad, ovate, subobtuse, glabrous on both sides, but 

 ciliate along one margin within, white. Coronal-lobes arising i-J lin. 

 above the base of the staminal-column and nearly or quite reaching 

 to its top, about 1| lin. long, complicate, sabquadrate in side view, 

 apical angles of the inflexed sides shortly produced above the 

 other part of the lobe into a broad subtruncate lobule, usually pro- 

 duced into an erect tooth on the dorsal side, narrowly winged down 

 the inner margins, no tooth within. Staminal-column about 2^, lin. 

 long ; anther-appendages transverse,somewhat semicircufar, inflexed over 

 the margin of the depressed apex of the style. Follicles U-2i in. 

 long, 1^-2 in. in diam., solitary, inflated, subglobose or obliquely ovoid, 

 obtuse, 'puberulous and covered with long soft bristles. — Gomphocaiyns 

 physocarpus, E. Meyer, Comm. 202; Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 55H ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 230 ; in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. ?y21. 



larile Z.and. British East Africa : Leikipia, 6800 ft., Thomson ! LVandii 

 Protectorate: between p]ldoir)a Ravine and Upper Man Plateau, 7000-8000 ft., 

 Whyfe ! 



XVIozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Kilinnmjaio, Maiungn, 4900 ft., 

 Volkens ! 



Also in South Africa and the Cape Verd Islands. Tlie tropic al sjieciinens I have 

 seen being withont fruit, I have described the follicles from .South Afr can 

 specimens, 



Tlie plant enumerated as Gomphocarpus phi/socarpus by K. Schumann in Ann. 

 Istit. Eot. Konia, vii. 37, collected in Somaliland by Kiva (108, 109, 1557, 1601), is 

 probably a different species. 



17. A. pubiseta, ^V. £. Br. A branching shrub ; branches purplish, 

 minutely tomentose. Leaves ascending or spreading; petiole A-2 lin. long; 

 blade 2.^-6 in. long, 1-2^ lin. broad, linear, acute, mucronate, glabrous 

 on both^ sides or with the midrib puberulous beneath, and sometimes 

 sparsely and minutely puberulous above. Umbels pedunculate, .") 7- 

 flowered, lateral at the nodes; peduncles i-1 J in. long, puberulous; 

 pedicels h-1 in. long, puberulous. Sepals 2-3 Im. long, J-1 lin. broad, 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla about 1 in. in diam., rotate, .Globed 

 nearly to the base ; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, acute, purplish outside, 

 pale greenish within. Coronal-lobes arising much above the base ot 

 the staminal-column and reaching to its top, complicate, oblong in side 

 view, truncate at the base and apex, with horizont^illy i eflexed teeth fn.m 

 the apices of the inflexed sides, half as long as the upper margin of 

 the lobe, no tooth within. Follicles 2.1-3 in. long, 'i m. thick, ovoid- 



