Brachystehna.] lxxxv. asclepiade.*: (brown). 471 



apiculate. Follicles l-J-lJ in. long, 3J-4J ]in. thick, stout, fusiform, 

 beaked, glabrous. — Walp. Ann. iii. G8 ; K. Schum. in Engl, ct Prantl, 

 Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 2G8. 



N'ile Ziand. Abyssinia : by tbe Tacazze River, is moist shady places, Quartin 

 Dillon. 



I have only seen a tracing of part of Ricluird's type, wliicii quite agrees with his 

 figure, from which the measurements in the above description are taken. On the 

 plrtte the outer corona is represented as forming five pouclies, sliortly bifid, with 

 rounded lobules, and the inner coronal-lobes its linear-lanceolate, acute, inflexed over 

 and longer than the anthers. 



9. B. Schiuzii, jV. E. Br. A dwarf species, the entire plant 

 (including the tuber) 3-5 in. high. Tuber about 1 in. in diam., fleshy, 

 conical-ovoid, flattish at the base. Stem solitary, divided at the surface 

 of the ground into a few prostrate branches, f-2-^ in. long, puberulous 

 with short curved hairs; underground part simple, 1-H in. long, 

 glabrous. Leaves erect or ascending. |-2 in. long, ^-J lin. broad, 

 sessile, linear or subterete, from the margins being revolute until they 

 touch each other, somewhat fleshy, obtuse or subacute, more or less 

 puberulous with short curved hairs. Flowers usually in pairs, sub- 

 lateral between the bases of the leaves ; pedicels G-8 lin. long, slender, 

 sparsely puberulous. Sepals 1-1 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 glabrous. Corolla rotate, 4-5 lin. in diam., 5-lobed to half-way down, 

 purple-brown, with a white centre; lobes IJ lin. long and as niach in 

 breadth, broadly ovate, acute, glabrous outside, villous inside with long 

 purple hairs, which taper towards each end. Outer corona arising fiom 

 the middle of the J lin. long staminal-column and reaching to the level 

 of its top, annular or very shortly cup-shaped, subpentagonal, entire, 

 glabrous, whitish (or yellowish ?) with the margin purple-brown ; inner 

 coronal-lobes obsolete, represented by the rather thick partitions which 

 connect the base of the anthers with the outer corona. Anthers oblong, 

 retuse, incumbent on the top of the truncate depressed apex of the 

 style. — C rater osienima Schinzii, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. ir)4 ; 

 and in Engl. &, Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 266. 



Ziower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Ambohmd ; OlukoniLi, Schinz f 



Iinperfectly known species. 



10. B. keniense, Schweinf. in H'Ohnel, Zinn Rudolph-See und 

 Stephanie-See, Sonderahdr. 8. Subcaulescent, branched, puberulous. 

 Leaves lanceolate, petiolate. Flowers overtopping the leaves, axillary, 

 solitary. Calyx puberulous. Corolla lobed more than two-thirds the 

 way down, glabrous. Corona subsimple, with the interior scales adnate 

 to the back of the stamens and there incumbent upon a fold, 

 appendaged at the base by a rectangular tooth on each side (the lobes 

 of the outer corona). Anthers with an obtuse thickened apex. — Engl. 

 Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 344 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 327, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 268. 



