Asclepias.] lxxxv. asclepiade.k (brown). 345 



(Joronal-lobes arising J lin. above the base of the staminal-column and 

 twice as long, bright or dark orange, erect, 4-4 J lin. long, linear- 

 oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, channelled down the face, 

 Avith a deltoid-subulate tooth 1 lin. long at the middle of each margin, 

 horizontally extended over the top of the staminal-column, and with or 

 without a median tooth on the inner face of the lobe; anther-appendages 

 large, ovate or orbicular, acute or obtuse, inflexed over the top of the 

 style. Follicles 3-3|- in. long, 4-5 lin. thick, lanceolate, tapering into 

 a beak. — Gomphocarpus pauciflorus, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mos.'^amb. 

 Bot. 276. StatJwiostelma paucijlorum, K.Schun). in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 

 132; in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322 ; and in Engl, .t Prantl, Pflanzen- 

 fam. iv. ii. 240 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 333. ,S'. reflexumy 

 Britten ct Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, iv. 27, t. 0, figs. 4-fi. 



Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa : Rios de Sen^, Peters ! Zambesi 

 Delta, A7r^, 16 ! Lower Zambesi, above Expedition Islatnl, Kirk, 1471 I^ritipb 

 Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Koudowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Cliikalii 

 and Zombii, Purves, 34 ! Mount Zomba, 2500-5000 ft., Meller ! Whyte ! Mapo- 

 niero, Meller I Elephant Marsh, Scott! Shire Highlands. Scott-Elliot, H509 '. 

 8567 ! Buchanan, 319 ! Manganja Hills, Waller ! Namasi, Cameron, 2 1 

 Jiliodesia; north of Umtali, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 160 ! 



43. A. aurea, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1890, 455. Piant 9-15 in. 

 high. Stem erect, simple or occasionally branched at the ba.se, with 

 internodes |-H in. long, slender, puberulous along two lines alternating 

 at the nodes. Leaves lA-3^ in. long, h lin. broad, linear-tiliform, 

 glabrous. Umbels on large peduncles, lateral at the nodes, 3-7- 

 flowered ; peduncles 2|-5^ in. long, with a puberulous line down one 

 side, slender; bracts 1-1^ lin. long, subulate; pedicels 3-6 lin. long, 

 slightly puberulous. Sepals 1-1 ^ lin. long, about J lin. broad, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, pubescent on the back. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the 

 base, reddish- or purplish- brown, thinly pubescent on the outside ; lobes 

 spreading, 1^-2 lin. long, l\ lin. broad, orate, notched at the obtusely 

 pointed apex, very minutely ciliate along one margin. Coronal-lobes 

 iuising at the base of the staminal-column and twice as long as it, 

 bright orange-yellow, compressed-cucullate at the base, produced at the 

 apex into a long channelled spreading or somewhat recurved point, the 

 cucullate part ^-f lin. long, subtruncate with recurved margins at the 

 top, produced at the inner apical angles into short erect obtu.^e teeth 

 and reaching to about the same level as the staminal-column ; 

 channelled point about 1 lin. long. Staminal-column |-1 lin. long, of 

 equal diameter at base and apex ; anthers subquadrat^, with short 

 broadly-rounded membranous appendages inflexed over the margin of 

 the truncate apex of the style.— -•(. aurea, Schlechter, and var. brevi- 

 cuspis, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1002, 255. (.'omphocarpaa aureus, 

 Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 17. 



Mozamb. l>l»t. Rliodesia : Salisbury, Rand, 638! at six-mile Spruit, nenr 

 Salisbury, Hon, Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 144! (iwelo district. Rand, 188 ! 



Also in South Africa. 



