:);J0 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE.E (brown). [Ascle])ia8. 



long, 2-2J lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, obtusely pointed. Coronal-lobes 

 arising h lin. above the base of the staminal-column and reaching to 

 its top "li-l^ lin. long, lJ-1^ Hn. broad across the side, D-shaped, 

 viewed sideways, with the infiexed sides rectangularly acute at their 

 tips, but never produced into distinct teeth. Follicles 2J-2-i in. long, 

 I in. in diam., ovoid-lanceolate, gradually tapering into a beak beset 

 with very numerous bristle-like processes, white-pubescent or sub- 

 tomentose all over. Seeds about 2h lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong- 

 ovate, very convex on one side, flat with a raised margin on the other, 

 minutely tuberculate or scrobiculate. — Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 

 4r)2. Gomphocar2ms tomentosus, Burch. Trav. i. M'd. G. lanaius, E. 

 Meyer, Comm. 202 ; DC. Prod. viii. 558. 



lio-wer Guinea. Gennan South-west Africa : Anibolancl ; Olukoiula, Schinz, 

 17! 27! Rautanen, 8-4! 



Also iu Soutli Africa. 



Tlie plant referred to Gompliocarpiis tomentosus, Burcli., Ly K. Scliiiniann in 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 123, mny belong here or to some other species. It 

 was collecteil hy De Becrst from a plant cultivated at Mpala, originally brought 

 from Kihanga iu the Congo Free State. The specimens alluded to by K. Schumann 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322 under Q.fruticosus, var. tomentosus, judging from the 

 synonymy quoted, appear to belong partly to A. leucocarpa, Schlechter, partly to A. 

 PhillipsicB, N. E. Br. and probably partly to A. Jiavida, X. E. Br., or A. puhiseia, 

 N. E. Br. 



27. A. iiliforxnis, Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. PL ii. 753, in a note binder 

 Schizoglossum. Stems 3-G ft. high, slender, about J lin. thick in the 

 flowering part, simple, very rarely branched in the upper part, glabrous, 

 covered with a thin white waxy secretion. Leaves 2-4 in. long, linear 

 or almost filiform, with strongly revolute margins, glabrous. Umbels 

 lateral and terminal, 6-10-flowered ; peduncles ^-1 in. long; pedicels 

 4-0 lin. long, minutely white-tomentose at first, becoming more or less 

 glabrescent. Sepals 1-1 J lin. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute, white- 

 tomentose. Corolla reflexed, sulphur-yellow; lobes 2-2J lin. long, \\ 

 lin. broad, ovate, acute, puberulous on the back. Coronal-lobes arising 

 1— J lin. above base of staminal-column and slightly exceeding it, 1 J lin. 

 long, erect, complicate, subtruncate or obliquely truncate, with the 

 ovate obtuse apex and marginal angles slightly produced, with 

 a slightly exserted horn within. Follicles solitary, 1-1 J in. long, 

 2^-3 lin. thick, lanceolate, acuminate from the middle into a long beak, 

 pulverulent, at length glabra,te. Seeds 2^-3 lin. long, ovate, plano- 

 convex, smooth, brown, with a narrow darker brown margin. — Schinz 

 in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenburg, xxx. 262 under A. huchenaviana ; 

 K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 238. Lagarinthus 

 JiliformiSj E. Meyer, Comm. 203. Gomphocarjms Jlliformis, D. Dietr. 

 Synop. PI. ii. 1^00 ; Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 558. 

 ZiOiver Guinea. Hereroland, ex Schinz. 

 Not uncommon in Extratropical South Africa. 



A'ar. huchenaviana, X. E. Br. Stems stouter, about ^- lin. thick in the flowering 

 part, much branched, usually rather densely covered with a white waxy secre- 



