Asdepias.] lxxxv. asclepiade.k (biiown). 341 



truncate at the apex, wliich is slightly infolded at the middle in the 

 dried state ; sides itiflexed and produced over the staminal -column into 

 broad, ascending, falcate or falcate-oblong, obtuse, truncate, or acute 

 points rising much above the level of the apex of the lobe and de- 

 current on the basal part as 2 narrow wings, between them arises 

 a horn exserted and acute, or short, included and obtuse or truncate. 

 Anther-appendages broad, suborbicular, inflexed over the apex of the 

 style. Follicles solitary (always ?), 3—1: in. long, J in. thick, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, tapering to the base. Seeds 21 lin." long, \h lin. broad, 

 ovate, with thick margins, minutely tuberculate on both sides, dark 

 brown. — Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 111. Gomphocarjms peduncic- 

 latus, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 558; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 40; 

 G. lonylpes, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. Ill, t. 75 ; Engl. Hoch- 

 gebirgsfi. Trop. Afr. 342. Pachycarpus coniiculatus, Hochst. in Flora, 

 1<S-J:4, 101. Stathmostelma pedunculatum, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 

 132, and xxviii. 45G; in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C 322; and in Engl, k Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 240. S.globuHflorum, K. Schum. in Engl. Ptl. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 322. 



Ifile Iiand. Abyssinia: Sana district, near Gadding ijaXii, Schimper ! banks 

 of the River Feurfeura (Ferfera), Quartin Dillon (ex Richard)^ Niamniam; by tlie 

 River Ibbu, Schweinfiirth, 39501 Uganda: Toro, Doggett ! liritisli K^st Africa: 

 Taita : Mwatate, 2000 ft., Johnston! Nyika country, near Mombasii, Wakefield! 

 Ribe, Wakefield ! near Lamu and Mombasa, IL'ddehramlt ^ 1901 ! H:ibai Hill?, Taylor ! 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Usambara ; near Kiyombc (Kigombe 't), 

 Volkensy 87! Tanga, Hiinsen, 124! Duga, Hoist, 3176! Kilimanjaro; below 

 Marangii, 3200 ft., Volkens, 2158 ! at 5000 ft., Johnston ! between Taveta and 

 Himo River, Meyer, 193 (ex Engler) ; Usagara : Mhunii, Speke Sf Grant! 

 Ukami ; south uluguru, 2900 ft., Goetze, 491 (ex Eni/ler) ; Tliehe ; Muhinde 

 Steppe, 4200 ft., Goetze (ex Engler); Unyamwe/i ; \Valaj (Wala ?) River. Boehm, 90 

 (t;x Engler). 



3G. A. "Welwitschii, Britten d: ReiuUe in Trans. Lin a. >Soc. tier. 2, 

 iv. 38 in note. Stems 2J-4- ft. high, simple or branched, with two 

 pubescent lines, or pubescent all round in the upper part, or glahrous. 

 Leaves 2-5 in. distant, incurved-erect or ascending, subsessile or with 

 petiole J-2 lin. long; blade 3-7 in. long, 1-4 lin. broad, linear, attenuate 

 to an acute point, cuneate or rather abruptly narrowed into the petiole 

 at the base, glabrous or scaberulous-pubescent above and on the margin** 

 and midrib beneath. Umbels 2-5-fiowe)ed, pedunculate; peduncles 

 ^-3 in. long, mostly in pairs at the apex of the stem, one of the pair 

 (strictly the terminal part of the stem) often divided and bearing two 

 umbels; peduncles sometimes below the terminal part of the stem, 

 laterally or at the forkings when branched ; bracts 1 .V 2 lin. long, subu- 

 late, or minute ; pedicels J-l in. long, pubescent down one .side. Sepals 

 2 lin. long, h-^ Hn. broad, oblong, acute, puberuloiis. Corolla rotate 

 (or somewhat reflexed ?) ; lobes 5-(l lin. long, 2^. lin. broad, oblong- 

 elliptic, acute, glabrous, "inten.se orange" {H'elwit^ch). Coronal lol)e.-i 

 arising }~^ lin. above the base of the staminal-column and excee«ling it 

 by about J of their length, 2l~2}, lin. long, complicate-cucullate in the 

 apical part, having the inflexed'' sides produced over th«' tips of the 

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