Asclepias.] lxxxv. asclepiade.*: (buown). ;J33 



very convex on the other, reticulate-rugulose, blackish. — K. Schum. in 

 Ann. Istit. Bot. Koma, vii. 87. J. fruticosa, var. anyuatissima 

 Schlechter in Joiirn. Bot. 180.'), 335. Gomphocarpas fruticosics, R. Br.] 

 var. angmtissimus, Ens^l. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 341, partly; K. 

 Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 37 ? G.fnUicosus, R. Br., var. 

 purpioreics, Martelli, Fl. Bogos. 53, not of Schweinfurth. 



wile Iiand. Eritrea : Keren, 4500 ft., Beccari, 186 ! Sfeudner, 747 ! Soma- 

 lilaiid : near Coromme. Rivi, 669 (ex Schumann), and without jirecise locality, J/r.v. 

 Lort-Phillips I TJg.mcla : Man ; on dry roei<s by a river, 6000-8000 ft., Scott- 

 Elliot, 679-4 ! Huwenzori ; in dry sunny places, 6000-7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7667 ! 



XVIozamb. I>lst. German Ea'-t Africa : Usanibar.i, Buchwald, 177 ! and 548 I 

 These proh ibly belong here, but are without flowers. 



This species is nearly allied to A. setosa^ Forsk., a native of Arabia, from wliich 

 it differs in its more slender habit -mvX suhqiiadrate (not oblong) coronal-lobes. 

 Probably Gompliocarpus sefosus^ A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Ab^ss. ii. 37 (not of other 

 authors), m?,y belong here. 



22. A, abyssinica, xY. E. Br. Stems 3-4 ft. high, apparently 

 annual from a perennial woody rootstock. quite simple, ratlier stout, 

 minutely puberulous. Leaves in whorls of three, or opposite in the 

 upper part ; petiole 1-4 lin. long; blade 3i-5i in. long, 2-4.1 lin. broad, 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneately narrowed into the petiole at the 

 base, margins revolute, glabrous on both sides or with the midrib puberu- 

 lous beneath. Umbels pedunculate, lateral at the nodes along the 

 upper part of the stem, 6-9-flowered ; peduncles i-l in. long, pedicels 

 0-10 lin. long, all puberulous or minutely tomentose. Sepals 2-21 lin. 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous. Corolla somewhat 

 reflexed ; lobes about "d^ lin. long, 2J lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, acute, 

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

 about I lin. above the base of the staminal-column and reaching 

 its top, Ij lin. long, complicate-cucullate, ovate-oblong in .-^ide view, 

 rounded on the back, subtruncate or truncate at the top, which is notched 

 in front of the teeth reflexed from the apical angles of the inllexed sides ; 

 teeth very minutely erose-denticulate along the upper margin and 

 sometimes entirely included within the cavity, or rising slightly above 

 the top of the lobe, no median tooth or crest within. Staminal- 

 column 2-2 J lin. long ; anther-appendages semicircular, inflexed over 

 the truncate apex of the style. Follicles 2\-2'\ in. long, 7-'.> lin. thick, 

 ovoid-lanceolate, acuminate into a beak, setose, minutely tomentose, with 

 puberulous setae when young, puberulent or nearly glabrous when ripe. 

 Ripe seeds not seen but apparently scrobiculate or minutely tuberculate. 

 — Gomphocarpus ahyssinicus, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 101 ; Decne. in DC. 

 Prod. viii. 557; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 38; K. Schum. in Engl. 

 & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 280. G. rerticillatus, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. 

 Nat. Mosc. 1848, xxi. i. 258. G. fruticosus, var., Vatke in C)est. Bot. 

 Zeitschr. 1876, 146. 



Nile Xiand. Abyssinia: Tigre ; Mount Sellouda (Slioloila), ne:«r Adowa, 

 Quart in Dil/on (ex Richard); near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 167H nnd without 

 precise locality, Schimper, 503 ! Dillon ^ Petit, 2Q (427) ! 



