-122 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [Marsclenia'. 



Seeds 5 lin. long, 3^ lin. broad, ovate, concave-convex, brown, with a 

 vellow- brown marginal wing, glabrous. — Dregea riibicunda, K. Schum. 

 in Encrl. Jahrb. xvii. 147 ; in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 32G, t. 39, figs. 

 A— H ; in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 293, 294, fig. 90, A ; and 

 in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 43. 



xrile £and. Somaliland : Ogaden; from Sassaber to Pozzi di Carbadani, 

 Ifiva, 972 (285)l Rohecchi-Bricchetti, 122, 125, 129, 331, and by the Eiver Dana 

 (Daua ?) i?ir<7, 473 (all ex Schumann). Meshra, on the Gazelle J{\\eT, Schivein- 

 furth, 12o5 ! Darfur, Purdy, 67 ! Denka : near liao, Schweinfurth, ser. iii. 33 (ex 

 Schvmanu). Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 2024! and 1944 (ex Schwnami). 



XMlozamb. I>lst. Gern^an East Africa : Usambara, Bombuera, Hoist, 2195 ! 

 Muo, Hoht, 3041 ! Tanga, VoUcens, 154 ! 



The follicles of this plant are very similar to those of M. florihnnda, N. E. Br. 

 {Dregea Jloribunda, E. Meyer), 



6. M. umbellifera, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii, 460. A 

 woody bush 3-6 ft. high, of compact habit ; young branches tomentose, 

 becoming glabrous. Leaves chiefly near the ends of the branches, 

 thin ; petiole 2-4 lin. long, tomentose ; blade somewhat rhomboid or 

 sublanceolate, broadest at the middle, narrowed in a curved line to an 

 obtuse or subacute apex, cuneately tapering to an acute base, thinly 

 covered with minute pubescence on both sides. Umbels sublateral at 

 the upper nodes, very shortly pedunculate, 3-8-flowered ; peduncle 

 J-lJ lin. long, tomentose; pedicels f-lj lin. long, tomentose. Sepals 

 f lin. long, |-| lin. broad, ovate-oblong, acute, subtomentose. Corolla 

 glabrous outside; tube |-1 lin. long, cylindric-campanulate, about | lin. 

 in diam., with ten tufts of deflexed hairs in a ring at the middle, and 

 bearded with long deflexed hairs at the mouth ; lobes 1 lin. long, J lin. 

 broad, linear, obtuse, puberulous on the inner face. Coronal-lobes 

 f lin. long, erect, not quite reaching to the tips of the anther-append- 

 ages ; basal half adnate, rectangular in transverse section, not winged; 

 upper half free, linear, acute, membranous. Staminal-column ^ lin. 

 long ; anther-appendages lanceolate, acute, erect around the base of 

 the terminal part of the style, which is produced much beyond them 

 into a filiform beak 1\ lin. long. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Uhehe ; by the Lukoma River (on. 

 the dry Steppe, 2600 ft., ex Schumann), Qoetze, 478 ! 



7. M. Taylori, Schlechter d- Rendh in Journ. Bot. 1896, 100. 

 Stem twining, | lin. thick, glabrous ; internodes 6-8 in. long. Leaves 

 opposite, spreading, herbaceous, rather thin, glabrous ; petiole 7-9 lin. 

 long ; blade 4-4J in. long, 2 in. broad, elliptic-ovate, shot-tly acuminate, 

 broadly cuneate at the base. Cymes from both axils, about 7-9 lin. in 

 diam., rather dense, many-flowered ; peduncles 2-4 lin. long, glabrous ; 

 bracts \—\ lin. long, suborbicular, glabrous, ciliate ; pedicels 1-1 J lin. 

 long, glabrous. Sepals | lin. long, | lin. broad, elliptic, obtuse, glabrous, 

 minutely ciliate. Corolla urceolate, glabrous outside, densely bearded 

 with white hairs at the mouth of the tube and with 5 tufts of deflexed 

 hairs within ; tube 1 J lin. long, about 1 lin. in diam. at the broadest 



