Asclepia.":.^ i.xxxv. ASfLLCiAOKv; (iiiiow .\). .'.47 



pedicels 4 6 lin. long, pubescent like the peduncles. Sepals iM lin. long, 

 I lin. broad, spreading, lanceolate, very acute, thinly piibesceMt with 

 long hairs on the back. Corolla lobcd almost to tiie base, densely 

 veined with rosy-purple outside, whitish, slightly veined with rosy- 

 purple within; lobes spreading. 4 lin. long, 2.', lin. broad, ol»long or 

 ovate-oblong, subncute, with a few long jointed hairs on the back of t h.*. 

 apical half, glabrous within, shortly ciliate. Coronal-lobes arising at thti, 

 base of the staminal-column and e(|ualling it in length, 'J lin. long, 

 erect, rather thick and fleshy, cucuUate in the basal lialf only, which 

 is adnate to the staminal-column up to the base of the anthers, where 

 each side is produced into a short erect tooth close to the anther- 

 wings, apical part tapering to an obtu.se point, channelled down the 

 inner face, within the cucullate part (at its top or at about the njiddle 

 of the lobe) is a very dense transverse band of short obtuse hairs, none 

 at the base. Staminal-column 2-:^| lin. long; anther-appendages 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the depressed truncate apex of 

 the style. — Gomphocarpvs jndcheUus, iJecne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 ser. 

 ix. 32"), and in DC. Prod. viii. :u)>^. 



]Lo'wer Guinea. Angohi, collectov'.s w.nwv not ivcovcU-d on tlic lubi-l ! 



This species «is very closely allied ti) A. .schvvKtmiiaun , Hiern, A.fulton', 

 N. E. lir., and A. viodesla, N. E. Hr., from all of which it differs in havir-: mncli 

 more rigidly fleshy coronal-lohes, with tlie transverse band of luiirs within theni 

 placed higher up, at the very margin of the cucullate jiart, hroader, more dense and 

 of rather stouter and more rigid haiis. The less membr.moiis purple-viined corolla 

 also distinguishes it ftom A.foUoso and -,:1. modesio, whilst the longer ])cdniicles, 

 rosy-purple (not violet-puri)le) venation of the flower*, and terete (not flattened, 

 scale-like) hairs within the ct)ronal-lobes equally distinj^uish it from .4. schinnan- 

 niana. 



The above descrijition was made from the type specimen of Oomphoparpvs 

 jmlc/ielhi.i, Decne,, kindly lent for the purpose hy the Director of the Paris Htrbarium. 



4{'). A. dissoluta, Schlechter, Westafr. Kautschuk-E.i]>ed. ;W»1». 

 Stem 10-18 in. (or more ?) high, simple, glabrous, with one puberulous 

 line. Leaves 1^-4 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear, acuminate, narrowed 

 or acute at the base, slightly revolute along the margins', glabrous. 

 Umbels solitary (always?), terminal, 2-4-flowered ; peduncle r)-7Uin. 

 long ; bracts subulate, |-2 lin. long, ^dabrous ; pedicels :>-<; lin. long, 

 glabrous. Sepals 2. lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 

 probably nearly rotate, O-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes 4 lin. long, 

 If lin. broad, oblong, subobtuse, recurved at the very apex, glabrous on 

 both sides. Coronal-lobes arising ^-J lin. above the ba^je of the 1 A-2 

 lin. long staminal-column, and slightly exceeding it, IJ-lJ. lin. long, 

 erect, linear-oblong, slightly complicate or concave-channelled down the 

 face, convex on the back, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, which is 

 sometimes a little recurved, broadest at the base ; margins .somewhat 

 abruptly narrowed about one-third the way up, forming a slight pro- 

 jecting angle, as seen sideways (.scarcely a tooth); no tooth on the 

 face of the lobe. Anther-appendages elliptic or orbicular, sub- 

 acute or obtuse, inflexed over the ai>ex of the styXe. - Xysmalohunn 



