PentarrhinuTti.^ Lxxxv. asclepiade.« (brown). 379^ 



brous or puberulous ; corymbs 1-1 1 in. in diam., elongating into a 

 raceme as the flowers expand ; bracts ^-1 lin. long, subulate, mem- 

 branous, deciduous ; pedicels 4-10 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals 1-1^ 

 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, more or less puberulous, ciliate. Corolla 

 rotate, reflexed ; lobes 2-o lin. long, l-li lin. broad, ovate or ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, glabrous, ciliate. Coronal-lobes about 1 lin. long, as 

 long as the staminal-column, obconic, narrowly channelled down the 

 face, truncate, thick and fleshy, with a slightly projecting rim at the 

 apex, and a stout central tooth directed forwards over the tips of the 

 anthers. Follicles solitary (always?), l^-2-| in. long, A-| in. tliick, 

 lanceolate, acute or acuminate into a beak, more or less tuberculate- 

 echinate, sometimes nearly smooth, glabrous. Seeds ?>-i)^, lin. long, 

 2 lin. broad, ovate, plano-convex, with a thin wing-like margin, toothed 

 at the broadest end, both sides with some linear ridges, brown, gla- 

 brous. — Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 553 ; Harvey, Thesaurus Cap. i. 7, 

 t. 11; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 43; K. Schum. in 

 Engl, tk Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 244, and in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 3S5. 



Wile Isand. Eritrea: Keren, Steudner, 748! Bogos, llildebrandf, 491! 

 Abyssinia: near Deli Dekeno, -S'cAxwjoer, 2175 ! Gerima, 6000 ft., Schimper,{)\\\ 

 Alia Amba, Roth, 409 ! British East Africa : Navaisha to Baringo Valley, Gregory I 

 Ukamba; Kitui, Hildehrandt, 2781 ! Rabai Hill?, Taijlor ! M.inbas:i, Kirk ! 



Iiower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Ambobincl; Annishe, ^V^jhz, 1 ! 

 Osliando, Schinz ! Damaraland, Een ! 



XM:ozainb. I>ist. German East Africa: Usambara : Masbeua, Jlolsf, 3570 ! 

 Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 4200 ft., Vol/cens, IMQl Uguenogue Mountains, 1'oliens, 

 509 ! Kinga Mountains, near Balangwa, 7200 ft., Ooetze, 935 (ex Schumann), 

 British Central Africa: Ngamiland ; on g'rassy plains near Botletle, Zwy^rrf. 217 ! 

 Tropical Transvaal : near Mailas Kop, 2500 ft., iSchlechter^ 4504 ! 



2. P. abyssinicum, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 553. — Stem, leav«?s 

 and inflorescence undistinguishable from P. insipidum. Coronal-lobes 

 1 lin. long, nearly or quite twice as long as the staminal-column, rather 

 thin, slipper-shaped, rounded at the apex, with a decurved horn or 

 point overhanging tlie shallow or narrowly funnel-shaped cavity formed 

 by the infolded margins, or directed over the anthei-s. Staminal- 

 column h lin. long, much shorter than in P. insi2ndHm, the horny 

 anther- wings also shorter. — Decne. in Delessert, Icon. Select, v, 3(>, 

 t. 70 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. oG ; Yatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 

 187G, 14G, and in Linnsea, xl. 215; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 342 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 323 ; in Engl. .;- Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv.234, fig. G8, K., and 244 ; and in Ann. Istit. Hot. Poma, 

 vii. 38. 



Wile Ziand. Abyssinia : Adowa. Quart in-DHlon J^- Petit, 201 ! without i>rei-i-e 

 locality, Schimper, 399 I Somaliland : near Giacorse, F.ira^ 213, 220. and on n 

 plain at Salvati, Jiiva, 1554 (ex Schumann). Uganda: two days' nmrcli fn)m Xandi, 

 Whj/te ! 



Var. angolense, X. E. Br. Coronal-lobes 1-1.] lin. loni,', exceodinjf tlio 

 i-1 lin. long staminal-column. — P. insipidum, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Wclw. i. 

 687, not of E. Mev. P. altyssinicum, De Wild, and Durand, Contrib. Fl. Cou^ro, ii. ii. 

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