Sarcostenima.'] lxxxv. asclepiade.e (brown). 385 



wile Iiand. Nubia : Wad Teeki, bctweon Suakiu mid IJcrbor, Schiceinfurth, 

 iii. 38! Eritrea: Keren, Beccari,^\ Atirba Valley, near Keren, Sleudner, 7»32 ! 

 Mount Alam Kale, Schiceinfurth and Riva, 1807 I ccjunnon near Cihelel', unil near 

 Samhar, from tlie river Amba to Monkollo, Fenzig (e\ Penzig). Abyssinia : upper 

 valley of tlie Kiver Won bey, Schimper, 708! Wogera, Schiwper, 1186! Kfat 

 Roth, 412 ! Britisb East Africa : Mombasa, Hiklebranilt, 19-18 I 



Xiower Guinea. An^jola : kmhv'v/., Monteiro ! at Quilonibo in the Mossul 

 principality, JFelicitick, 42oo\. Loanda, JFelwitsch, 42o6 \ 



nSozamb.- Dlst. German East Africa : Umbi Valley, Smi/h ! Hriti>h 

 Central Africa: Nvasaland; Namasi, near Zomba, Cameron, 78! Xpimiland ; 

 Kwebe Hills, Mrs. Lugard, 185 ! Rbodesia ; Matoppo Mountains, lion. Mrs. JSvcft/n 

 Cecil, 106 ! Buluuayo, Hand, 363 (ex ^. Moore). 



There may be more tlian one species included bere, but in the dried state I am 

 quite unable to distinguisb any of tbe above from S. viminule ; if differences exiht, 

 they require to be made out and noted from tbe living plants. To S. viminnle I 

 am also inclined to refer S. Daltoni, Decne. in Hook. Niger Fl. 149, t. 14, from tbe 

 Cape Verd Islands. This only appears to differ from aS". riminale in its mucb 

 stouter stems, wbicli are 2-3 lin. ibick in the dried state. To S. Daltoni tbe 

 following references and synonymy belong. — Schmidt, Fl. Caj). Verd. Ins. 214 ; 

 Krause in Engl. Jabrb. xiv. 412 ; Heniiques in IJolet. Soc. Brot. xiii. 144. S. 

 nudum, C. Sm. in Tuckey, Congo, 251 ; Webb in Hook. Nigtr Fl. 149; Hiern in Cat. 

 Afr. PI. Welw. i. 688. Tithymalus pendulus. Haw. Syn. PI. Succ, 138. Euphorbia 

 pendula, Link, Enuni. PI. Hort. Berol. ii. 10. 



2 S. andoDgense, Hlern in Cat. Afr. PL Welv. i. G80. Stems 

 2-3 lin. thick. Inflorescence as in aS'. viminale. Corolla larger, pale 

 greenish-yellow, sulphur-coloured or whitish ; lobes 3-oJ lin. lonfj, 

 oblong, obtuse, with strongly reflexed margins. Corona like that of 

 »S'. viminale in structure, white. Follicles o-oA in. long, 3-3.', lin. thick, 

 terete, acuminate. Seeds (immature) elon^jate-ovate, with a broad 

 margin, glabrous on both sides. — »S'. Welvntsckii, Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 

 Welw. i. 089. 



IiO\irer Guinea. Angola: Pimgo Andongo; in the higher rocky i)laces in tlie 

 Praesidium, irelwitsch, 4257 \ Huilla ; in rocky thickets at the base of Morro du 

 Lopollo, WeUvitsch, 4261 ! 



This may be only a variety of S. viminale, but tbe stems are usually stouter, the 

 floweis are mueli larger and the seeds glabrous. 



27. D^MIA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook f. Gen. PI. ii. 704. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube campanulute or cylindric ; lobes .'», 

 widely spreading, overlapping to the left in bud. Corona double; 

 outer corona at the base of the staminal column, membranou.«, annular, 

 shortly 5-lobed ; lobes subquadrate or oblong, obtuse, truncate, or 

 denticulate ; inner corona of 5 erect fleshy lobes adnate to the staminal- 

 column up to the anthers, free above and produced into subulate horns 

 incurved over the staminal-column, at the base produced into spread- 

 ing or deflexed spurs. Staminal-column arising at the mouth of tlie 

 corolla-tube, entirely exserted ; anthers erect, terminated by a mem- 

 branous appendage, inflexed over the apex of the style. Pollen-masses 



