334 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). [Asclepicis. 



Encler in Lis Hochgebiigsfioia Trop. Afr. 341 has united this plant M'ith A. 

 fruticosa, L., from which it difFeis in its unhranched habit, whorled leaves and 

 very different coronal-lcjhes. From A. Fhillip.sice it is distinguished by its broader 

 leaves, stouter, unhranched stems and different coronal-lobes. 



23. A. albida, iV. A\ Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 254. Stems 

 erect, pubescent, 2-3 ft. or more high. Leaves opposite, ascending- 

 spreading ; petiole |-1 hn. long ; blade 4-G in. long, 1-2 J lin. broad, 

 linear, acuminate, cuneate at the base, revolute at the margins, nearly- 

 glabrous, with a few hairs on the midrib beneath. Umbels lateral 

 between the bases of the leaves, pedunculate, 4-10-flowered ; peduncles 

 |-1^ in. long, pube>cent ; bracts 3-4 lin. long, linear-subulate, 

 deciduous; pedicels |-1 in. long, pubescent. Calyx-lobes 3-3|- 

 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. Corolla rotate ; lobes 

 reflexed, ^ in. long, 3-|-4 lin. broad, elliptic, obtuse, ciliate along one 

 margin, glabrous outside, very minutely puberulous within, apparently 

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

 stauiinal-column, and overtopping it by half their length, erect, 

 3 lin. long, complicate-cucullate, with the apical angles of the inflexed 

 sides produced into a reflexed falcate tooth or lobe, that rises above and 

 is partly embraced by the sides of the truncate apex, no tooth within 

 the lobe, which is narrowly winged outside near the margins and 

 gibbous on each side at the base. Follicles 2 J in. long, 7-8 lin. thick, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, setose and pubescent. 



Urile Xiand. Eritrea : Sagaiieiti, north side towards Selet, 6500-7200 ft., 

 Schweinfurth Sf Hiva, 993 ! Abyssmia, Schimper, 27 ! 



24. A. Integra, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 219. A bush 

 4-5 ft. high, with erect branches, in the young state covered with 

 a white lelted tomentum, branches at length white-pruinose, and 

 finally nearly or quite glabrous. Leaves erect or ascending, subsessile, 

 2J-6 in. long, J-1 lin. broad, linear, margins revolute to the midrib, 

 mucronate-acute, at first white-woolly, then glabrous. Umbels 

 several, lateral at the nodes along the upper part of the branches 

 5-8-flowered; peduncles |-1 in. long; pedicels G-10 lin. long. Sepals 

 l-\h lin. long, |—J lin. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 

 5-lobed nearly to the base, probably yellowish-white or greenish- 

 white, white-tomentose outside, glabrous within ; lobes reflexed, 3-5 

 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, subacute. Coronal-lobes 

 arising close to (or up to J lin. above) the base of the staminal- 

 column, and overtopping it by half their length, erect. 2-3 lin. Icng, 

 1t^-2 lin. broad, complicate-cucullate, obliquely ovate or obliquely ovate- 

 oblong in side view, inner margins entire, obliquely rounded or slightly 

 angular at about the middle, but with no distinct tooth, and no 

 median tooth within, apparently ochreous. Follicles about 1| lin. long, 

 inflated-ovoid at the base, contracted or narrowed into a beak, white- 

 tomentose when young, pruinose or almost glabrous when mature. 

 Seeds ovate, concave on one face, very convex on the other, rugose. 

 — K. Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 37. Gomphocarpus 



