330 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brow>v). [Asclejnas. 



lanceolate, attenuate into a beak, setose, pubescent or subtomentose 

 all over, including the seise, with spreading white hairs, at least when 

 young. — Gomphocarpus 2^urpurascens, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 38, 

 t. 09 ; K. Sebum, in Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. ii. 23(5. G.fruti- 

 cosus, var. purpweus, Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 129 ; Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 341 ; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 

 1892, 349. 



xrile Xiand. Eritrea : among Olive bushes frcm G*>leb to Bambit Valley and 

 on Lalamba Mountain, near Keren, ex Fenzig. Abyssinia : Chelicut, Teiit (ex 

 Richard) ; Ti2;re ; between Mai Gouagoua and Deliradiiia, Dillon Sf Petit, 24 ! Sliireh 

 Province, Billon Sf Petit ! Samen; near Jaja, Schimper,\^b'^ (exZi'jj.^^er), Wadela 

 district, Steudner, 758, 759 (ex Ungler), and w itboiit precise locality, Schimper, 79 ! 



This is a somewhat imperfectly known species, of which I have not seen flowers 

 and have compiled my account of them Ironi Kich.ird's description and figure. 

 German authors hive placed it \xr\Aer A. frittieosa, Linn., from which it is certainly 

 very distinct and more nearly lesembles A.Jlavida, N. E. Br., fi-om whicli the very 

 hairy bristles on the fruit will at once di^tillguiHh it. There is alrtady an A. 

 purptirascens, Linn. 



18. A. fruticosa, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 210. A shrub 3-10 ft. 

 high ; branches erect, pubescent or puberulous. Leaves more or less 

 ascending ; petiole 2-4 lin. long ; blade 2-0 in. long, 2-9 lin. broad, 

 linear to linear-lanceolate, acate or acuminate, mucronate, or rarely 

 aristate, cuneate-acute at the base, narrowly revulute along the margins, 

 glabrous or puberulous, especially on the midrib beneath. Umbels 

 pedunculate, lateral at the nodes and terminal, 0-10-flowered ; pedun- 

 cles f-H iu. long, pubescent; bracts 3-4 lin. long, linear, acuminate, 

 deciduous ; pedicels |^-|in. long, pubescent. Sepals 3 lin. long, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, pubescent. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, white ; 

 lobes reflexed, 4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous 

 on both sides, usually ciliate along one margin, but sometimes without 

 cilia. Coronal-lobes arising about J lin. above the base of the 2 lin. 

 long staminal-column, and reaching to its summit, erect, complicate- 

 cucullate, with the apical angles of the inflexed sides produced into 

 recurving teeth, that rise considerably above the general level of the rest 

 of the lobe and have their tips incurved towards each other ; margins of 

 the inflexed sides narrowly winged outside ; no tooth or horn within. 

 Follicles 2-3 in. long, ovate, attenuate into a beak, setose and minutely 

 tomentose, but the setae nearly or quite glabrous. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL 

 Welw. i. 085; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 255. Gomphocarpus frutico- 

 siis, P. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 38 ; Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 557 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1028?; Reichb. f. Fl. Germ. xvii. 18, t. 1071 (very bad); K. 

 Schum. in Bull. Soc. Bot-. Belg. xxxvii. 122, in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 322 ; in Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. ii. 230 ; in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 

 450, and xxx. 382 ; Schweinfurth in Hohnel, Rudolf-See und Steph- 

 anie-See, Sonderabdr. 8 ; Engl, in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 148. G. cornu- 

 tus, Decne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 ser. ix. 324, and in DC. Prod. viii. 557. 

 Asclepias crassifvlia, Linn, ex Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 572. 



XiO\7er Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes; banks of the Rivers Bero and Giraul, 

 WeLwitsch, 4164 ! 4165 ! waste places of Bon Vistn, Oossweiler, 87 ! 



