i>32 f.xxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (browx). [Asclepitts. 



pedicels 7-11 iin. long, white-tomentose. Sepals 1 i-2 lin. long, narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, white-tonientose. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the 

 base, reflexed, yellow in the dried state ; lobes about 4 lin. long and '2h 

 lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, acute, glabrous on both sides, ciliate along one 

 margin. Coronal-lobes arising about | lin. above the base of the 

 staminal-column and reaching to its summit, apparently dull purple, 

 2 lin. long, H lin. broad, complieate-cucullate, subquadrate, with the 

 dorsal margin shorter than the inner margins in side view, so that the 

 real apex of the lobe does not rise so higii as its inflexed sides, the 

 apical angles of the inflexed sides produced into abruptly reflexed falcate 

 teeth rising a little above the apical margin of the lobe, no tooth or 

 horn within the lobe. Staminal-column 2J lin. long; anther-append- 

 ages roundish -ovate, very obtuse, inflexed over the truncate apex of the 

 style. Follicles (immature) ellipsoidal with a short beak, somewhat 

 sparsely bristly, glabrous or nearly so.— K. Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. 

 E-oma, vii. :>?. 



wile Ziand. Xubia : coast region, Ben/ ! Somalilaiid : Golis Range : Darra, 

 Surry, Mrs. Lort-PhilUps ! Miss Edith Cole ! 



'ilie plant collecttd in Somaliland, on the Ogaden Steppe, Keller, 100, may also 

 belong t<j tlis s.i)ecies, but 1 liave seen only a fruiting specimen. Probably some of 

 the s])ecimens leterred to Gomphocarpiis fruticosus, H. Br., viir. tomentosa, by K. 

 Schumaini in Kn^l. PH. Ost-Afr. C. 322, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. lioma, vii. 37 belong 

 here. 



21. A. Phillipsiae, X. E. Br. in Kev) Bulletin, 1895, 219. A 

 woody, branching shrub. Branches ascending, rather densely pubes- 

 cent or subtomentose Vvith minute white curved hairs. Leaves ascend- 

 ing, subsessile or with very short petioles, Ih-'^h in. long, |-1 lin. 

 broad, linear, acute, mucronate, with very revoiute margins, which are 

 often rolled back at the midrib, spar.sely and minutely pubescent when 

 young, soon becoming glabrous. CJmbeJs several, lateral at the nodes 

 along the upper part of the branches, pedunculate, 3-G-flowered ; 

 peduncles -J -J in. long, puberulous ; bracts caducous, 2J-3J lin. long, 

 linear or subulate, acute, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous ; 

 pedicels 4^-8 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals about IJ lin. long, linear, 

 acute, puberulous. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes 2J-2| lin. 

 long, IJ lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, subacute, reflexed, glabrous on both 

 sides or puberulous towards the base within, ciliate along one margin. 

 Coronal-lobes arising ^—1 lin. above the base of the staminal-column 

 and reaching to its top, 1-lJ lin. long, |-l:j lin. broad, complieate- 

 cucullate, subquadrate in side view, with a rather broad falcate 

 tooth, denticulate along its upper margin, reflexed from the apical 

 angles of the inflexed sides and contained within the cavity, no median 

 tooth within. Staminal-column H-2 lin. long; anther-appendages 

 short, transversely oblong or subreniform, obtuse, denticulate, inflexed 

 over the truncate apex of the style. Follicles about 2 in. long, J-J in. 

 thick in the basal part, lanceolate, tapering into a beak, setose, very 

 minutely and rather sparsely pubescent all over or the bristles glab- 

 rous. Seeds 2 lin. long, 1-1 J lin. broad, ovate, concave on one side, 



