374 Lxxxv. ASCLEPIADE.E (brown). Mavgaretta.'] 



PCozamb. Hist. German East Africa : Urundi, Scott-Elliot, 8370 ! 



The flowers are stated on Wilson's label to be " dull yellow with a brown spot at 

 the base of each petal." This doubtless refers to the petal-like coronal-lobes, the 

 true petals apparently being rosy-purple. According to Colonel Grant both the 

 l)eta}s and coronal-lobes are i)ink. 



2. M, "WTiytei, K. Schum. in Engl. PJl. Ost-Afr, C, o2;3. Stems 

 12-18 in. high, mostly simple, pubescent. Leaves very spreading or 

 somewhat reflexed ; petiole J-2 lin. long ; blade 2-5 in. long, 2-11 lin. 

 broad, linear to lanceolate, acuminate, more or less pubescent on both 

 sides. Umbels about f>-4 in a corymb at the top of the stem, and 

 occasionally one from the node below, 7-lG-flowered ; the upper 

 pediiDcle ^-1 in. long, the lower lJ-3 in. or more long, tomentose- 

 pubescent, as are likewise the 3-8 lin. long pedicels, and the 1-1 J lin. 

 long la.nceola.te acuminate sepals. Corolla-lobes 2-2J lin. long, | lin. 

 broad, lanceolate and acute or oblong and obtuse in difl'erent flowers 

 in the same umbel, sparsely pubescent on the back, erect, with spread- 

 ing or recurved tips, but not re volute. Coronal -lobes arising from the 

 base of the staroinal-column, suberect, petaloid, 2-2Jlin. long,i- lin. broad; 

 basal part narrowly complicate, with the inflexed margins produced 

 into narrow acuminate teeth ^ lin. long, with a similar tooth on the face of 

 the lobe between them ; upper part expanded into aflat narrowly oblong 

 blade, entire, bifid or irregularly toothed or lobed at the apex. Anthei-- 

 appendages ovate, lanceolate or oblong, acute, erect. Style capitate, 

 subhemispherical or shortly subconical at the apex, obtuse. Follicles often 

 solitary, 2^-3 in. long, 3-3-^ lin. thick, lanceolate, acuminate into a beak, 

 tapering into a stipe at the base, finely and sparsely pubescent. Seeds 

 21in. long, iMin. broad, ovate, flattened, with thickened margins, scro- 

 biculate, brown. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 234 ; 

 Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 305; S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 

 250. M. rosea, Britten in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 29, not of 

 Oliver. 



ZMIozamt). Dlst. German East Africa : Lower plateau nortli of Lake Xyasa, 

 Thomson ! Portuguese East Africa : between Beira and Massi Kessi, Hon. Mrs. 

 Hvelyn Cecil, 17! Lower Shire: Monunbala Mountain, 1700-2500 ft.. Kirk/ 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland; Chiradzulu Mountain, Heller ! Mount Zomba 

 and vicinity, 2500-3500 ft., 7r%^e.' Purves,'^2\ Metier! Mount Mlanji, 7000- 

 9000 ft., Pnrves, 90 ! Whyte, 106 ! 117 ! Scott-MHot, 8666 ! Mandala to Matope, 

 Scoff.-Ulliot,84<42l Mount Malosn, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Blantyre, ^co^^ .' Shire 

 Highlands, Buchanan ! Angoniland, Sharpe, 1901 ! and without precise locality, 

 Buc?i,anan, ^^4>\ 907! Khodesia : Salisbury, i^awc^, 124! 547! 632! 



This species varies considei-ably in the size of its flowers and in the amount of 

 toothing at the apex of the coronal-lobes. In the dried state the latter often appear 

 to be flat to the base, with 3 teeth on their inner face, but I believe that when alive 

 the claw part is complicate as described. 



3, M, Holstii, K. ScJium. in Engl. Jahrh. xvii. 133, t. 6, figs, 

 G-J. Stems 8-22 in. high, simple. Leaves very spreading or some- 

 what reflexed, |-G in. long, ^-1 in. broad, on petioles h-^h Hn. long, 



