Asclepias.] lxxxv. asclepiade.e (brown). 351 



XVXoxaiub. Dist. (lonnaii Kast Africa : l.ower ]»lateau, north of J.akc Xvasu, 

 ThoiHstoii ! 



The leaves ami stems in the dried s-tate iire tinted witli ])nrplo. 



52. A. Randii, S. }[oore In Joara. Bot. 11102, 2i)'>. Plant Jibout 

 ') ill. high, branching near the base. Branches about !j lin. tjjick, 

 shortly pilose ; interuodes :>-(} lin. long. Le.ives ascending-spreading, 

 sessile or subsessile, J-2^ in. long, 'I \ lin. broad, linear, acute, pilose 

 ■on both sides. Umbels about 2 to a brancli, subcorynibose, 

 ;)-4-tiowered ; peduncles (1-1(1 lin. long, densely pilose ; bracts 2-2.1 lin. 

 long, pilose-pubescent, persi^tent ; pedicels O-d lin. long, <lensely pflose. 

 Sepals 2 lin. long, f lin. broid, lanceolate, acute, pilose-pui)e.scent, some- 

 what retlexed. Corolla apparently green, lobed neaily to the base; 

 lobes slightly retlexed, '.) lin. long, H lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtu.se, 

 tliinly pilose on the back, glabrous within. Coro'ial-lobes ari.sing at 

 tne base of the staminal-column and overtopping it by nearly or quite 

 tialf their length, about •\\ lin. long, erect, co.nplicate-cucullate in the 

 basal part, which does not reach to the top of the staminal-coluoin and 

 is produced into short obtuse teeth at the apicil angles of the sides, 

 terminal part proiluced into an erect linear obtuse process 2 lin. long ; 

 inner surface minutely papillate-puberulous. Staminal-column l.',lin. 

 Jong. 



Xtlozamb. Bist. Ithodosia : Salislmry, Hand, 194 I 



53. A. exninens, Schleckter in Joiirn. Bot. 18DG, 45;5. Plant 5-10 

 in. high, branching clo.se to the ground. Branches usually more or less 

 <lecumbent, pubescent along 2 lines alterrating at the nodes, leafy ; 

 internodes ^-1 in. long. Leaves ascending, usu illy unilateral ; petiole 

 1-3 lin. long ; blade 1-4J in. long, f-2J lin. broad, linear, acute, shortly 

 hastate or rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, thickened along the 

 flat or slightly recurved margins, quite glabrous on both sides or thinly 

 setulose-scabrid along the midrib beneath. Umbels solitary on ejich 

 branch, terminal, pedunculaie, 3-G-flowered, erect ; peduncle ^,-2^* in. 

 long, pubescent along one side; bracts 3-5 lin. long, \-\ lin. brojid, 

 linear, acute, glabrous or sparsely setulose-scabrid,- usually very 

 <leciduous ; pedicels \-\ in. long, puberulous along one side. Sepals 

 2i^-4 lin. long, | lin. broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, very acute, 

 gfabrous or with here and there a hair. Corolla lobed nearly to the 

 base, greenish, glabrous on both sides; lobes 4^-(l^ lin. long, ljj-2jlin. 

 broad, lanceolate, tapering to an obtuse point, very spreading or some- 

 what reflexed. Coronal-lobes arising J lin. above the Iwise of the 

 staminal-column and overtopping it by \-\ of their length, '.\-\\ lin. 

 long, J-| lin. broad across the side, complicate and of nearly eipial 

 breadth throughout, erect, recurved-spreading at the apical piirt, 

 inflexed sides truncate or rounded at the top and spread out forming 

 an open mouth to the complicate part, apex of the 1oIh» produced 

 <lorsally into a short deltoid point. Staminal-column 2J-3J lin. 

 long; anther-appendages elliptic, obtu.se, inflexed over the apt'X of 



