432 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). [Leptadeuici. 



pubescent on the face, except a median depressed glabrous line at their 

 base. Coronal-lobes inserted at the sinuses of the corolla, minute, 

 fleshy, rounded, glabrous, dorsally tipped with a tuft of rather 

 long hairs. Follicles solitary, 2|-3 in. long, 4-5 lin. thick, lanceolate, 

 obtusely acuminate, smooth, glabrous. Seeds 2^-'d lin. long, narrowly 

 ovate-lanceolate, concave-convex, glabrous. — DC. Prod. viii. G28 ; 

 Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 101 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzen- 

 tam. iv. ii. 270, and in Ann. Instit. Bot. Roma, vii. 41. L. Forskalii, 

 Decne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. *2 ser. ix. 269, t. 10, fig. B., and in DC. Prod, 

 viii. 628 ; A. Pich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 45 ; Yatke in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 

 1876, 146 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. ii. 270. 

 L. ahyssinica, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 628 ; A. Bich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 

 ii. 45 ; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 1892, 349 ; K. Schum. in 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 270 ; Martelii, Florul. Bogos. 55. 

 L. Belilii, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 628. L. pallida, Hochst., and 

 L. schimperiana, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 101. Cynanchum hetero- 

 phyllum, Delile, Cent. Plant. Afr. Yoy. Meroe, 47, t. 63, fig. 4. 



xrortb Central. Darf ur, Purdy, 79 ! 



xrile Siand. Eritrea : Shotel, on the slopes of the Zedamba, Beccari, 105 ! 

 Abyssinia : by the Eiver Tacazze, Schimper, 166 ! 632 ! near Geleb and at the 

 torrents Belta and Lava, Penzig (ex Penzig) ; Modat Province, Schimper, 1007 ! 

 Somak, Efat, Moth, 411! Somaliland, Miss Cole! Riva, 1038, and PoheccM- 

 Bricchetti, 327 (ex Schmnann). Sennar, Kotschy^ 169! White Nile: at the 

 6th Cataract, Seine eivfurth, 469 ! at Kir,i;eh, Sehiveinfurth, 609 ! near Khartoum, 

 Schiveinfurth, 768 ! between New and Old Dongola, Bromfield ! Wod Schellai, 

 Schiceinfurth, 934 ! Blue Nile : near Snba Deleib, Muriel, L, 9 ! 



This plant was figured by Alpino in 1592 (PI. ^gypt. 53, with fig.), under the 

 name of Secamone, which figure has been erroneously referred to Secamone Alpini, 

 Schnltes, and Oxystelma Alpini, Decne., which see. 



?y. Ij. Spartium, Wight, Contrih. Bot. Ind. 48. A much branched 

 leafless bush (rarely with leaves on the young shoots), attaining a height 

 of 5-10 ft. ; trunk 4-6 in. thick ; branches erect, slender, terete, straight, 

 puberulous on the tips of the growing shoots, soon becoming glabrous ; 

 1-2 nodes at the growing apex alone provided with minute subulate 

 ifaves 1-2 lin. long, which soon fall aEway, or rarely remain on the young 

 shoots and grow out to 1-2 in. long, J-l J lin. broad, linear, acute. 

 Umbels subaxillary, several-flowered ; flowers successively developing so 

 that a short floral axis up to 2 lin. long is sometimes formed ; peduncles 

 1-2 lin. long; pedicels |-1 lin. long, puberulous. Calyx f lin. long,^ 

 5-lobed to the middle, puberulous ; lobes ovate, subacute. Corolla '2-2^ 

 lin. in diam., subrotate; tube funnel-shaped, as long as the calyx ; lobes 

 1 lin. long, ovate, acute, thickened in the apical half, slightly reflexed 

 along the margins, glabrous outside, pubescent inside, with the tube and 

 a central line at the base of the' lobes glabrous. Coronal-lobes at the 

 sinuses of the corolla very small, fleshy, tubercle-like or, semicircular, 

 pubescent at the apex ; staminal-corona minute, annular, close to the 

 base of the ^ lin. long staminal-column. Follicles 3J-4J in. long, \ in. 

 thick, terete, attenviate into a long beak. Seeds 4 lin. long, 1-1 i lin. 



