:)50 Lxxxv. AS('LEPiADK.+: (hkown). [Asclepios. 



narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, rounded or emarginate at the base, 

 levolute along the margins, minutely scaberulous or with a short 

 spreading pubescence. Umbels terminal aud lateral, peiluncuiate, G-10- 

 fiowered, subcorymbose at the top of the stem ; peduncles ^—0 in. long, 

 pubescent; bracts 1^-2 lin. long, subulate; pedicels 5-8 lin. long, 

 pubescent. Sepals 2-'2h lin. long, attenuate, acute, more or less pubes- 

 cent. Corolla J in. in diam., with very spreading or reflexed lobes o-3|- 

 lin. long, 2-2| lin. broad, ovate, acute, pubescent on the back, puberu- 

 lous towards the base within, apparently whitish, with or without dark 

 purple dots and lines within but pale rosy according to Welwitsch. 

 Coronal-lobes horizontally radiating from the Vjase of the staminal- 

 column and only reaching to half its height, 1^ lin. long, 1 J lin. high, 

 purple-brown with whitish margins, hood- or bonnet-shaped, sub- 

 truncate, minutely denticulate along the top margins, which have an 

 «rect tooth on each side at the base ; the cavity is nearly filled up by a 

 large tuft of pubescent or papillate filaments arising from a large keel 

 that runs along the bottom of the hood and papillate along the margin 

 within. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw.i. (IHO. Gomphocarpus a'istatus, 

 Decne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 2 ser. ix. o25, t. 11, D. fig. 3; and in DC. 

 Prod. viii. 5G2; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 2?)^. 

 G. palastris, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 127, and in Engl, tk Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 28(5. G. palaster^ K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 

 ;582. 



Ito-wer Guinea. Anjjo'a : Pungo Aiulongo ; on the moro e'evated rocks of the 

 Praesidiuui, M'dmitsch, 4167 ! Malaiige, Mechow, 317, 401 ! 



Mozamb. Sist. Gcnnan East Africa: Unyika, on a liilly plateau near 

 Kaiinnda Vilhue, 4900 ft., Goeifc^', 1440 {e\ Schumann). British Central Africa: 

 XyasHlaiul; Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 fr., Wht/te ! Kondowe to Karong^,, Whyte ! 

 Mount Zomba, Wh(/fe ! Mou -.t MUiiije, Svott-ElUot, 8670! McClonnie, 49! 



The Zomha plant has ratlier Lnfrer teeth jit the hiise of the coronal-lobes and the 

 ti'aments within are ratlier sliorter tliau in the Angolan plant, but I do not think it is 

 >jiecifieally di^tinct. 



51. A. pygmsea, X. K. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 255. Plant 

 3-4 in. high. Stems several from a root, simple or once or twice 

 branched, pubescent. Leaves somewhat spreading, lower opposite, 

 upper, or at least some of those arising from a flowering node, '^ in a 

 whorl, subsessile, 1-2 in. long, ^-| lin. broad, linear, acute, scaberu- 

 lous, revolute to midrib along the margins. Umbels 1-3 to a stem, 

 pedunculate, corymbose, 4-G-flovvered ; peduncles J-| in. long, pubes- 

 cent ; bracts 2^-3 lin. long, subulate, pubescent; pedicels 4-G lin. long, 

 pubescent. Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent. Corolla 

 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes 21-3 lin. long, 1| lin. broad, oblong, 

 subobtuse, more or less pubescent oii the back. Coronal-lobes stel- 

 lately radiating from the base of the staminal-column and rising to the 

 same general level 2 lin. long, complicate, inflexed sides or the basal 

 half produced into broad deltoid obtuse erect teeth reaching to the 

 top of the staminal-column, minutely papillate-pubescent within. 

 Anther-appendages broad, transverse, rounded. 



