480 Lxxxv. AscLEPiADE^ (brown). [Carcdluma.. 



sparsely covered with minute thick hairs ; pedicels 2-o lin. long, stout, 

 glabrous. Sepals about IJ lin. long, lanceolate, acute, with a few 

 minute thick hairs. Corolla about 1 J in. in diam. ; tube large, cam- 

 panulate, about |- in. long and broad ; lobes 6-7 lin. long and as much 

 in breadth, spreading, ovate, acute, ciliate with clavate hairs on the 

 revolute margins, otherwise the corolla is entirely glabrous. Outer 

 coronal-lobes spreading, 1-J lin. long, narrowly lanceolate-oblong, bifid 

 to half-way down ; teeth parallel ; inner coronal-lobes f lin. long, 

 oblong, obtuse, truncate or emarginate, incumbent on the backs of the 

 anthers, which are ascending and reach to the top of the truncately 

 conical apex of the style. — Sarcocodon speciosus, N. E. Br. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 170, t. 12, fig. 4-8. 



irile ]Land. South Somaliland : near Magadoxo, Kirk ! 



Probably C. codonoides, K. Sclium. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 328, is a synonym 

 of this species, but the description is insufficient for identification ; it runs as 

 follows : Stems 10 in. liigli, tetragonal, bearing at the apex a many-flowei-ed umbel 

 of brownish-black flowers, similnr in form and size to those of Campanula Trache- 

 lium. Follicles about 4^ in. long, glabrous. Seeds 4J lin. long, 3i lin. broad, 

 broadly margined, adorned with a tuft of hairs nearly 14 lin. long. It was collected 

 by Volkens (2382) between Gonja and Kinhiro in Usanibara, German East Africa. 



2. C. hirtiflora, iV. E, Br. in Keiv Bulletin, 1895, 264. Stems 

 not seen, stated on the label to be "very thick, iieshy, square," and the 

 flowers in a rough sketch are shown to be in large terminal umbels. 

 Pedicels 1 in. or mor^ long? glabrous. Sepals lj-21in. long, lanceolate- 

 attenuate, with a few minute hairs on the back. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed 

 to half-way down, glabrous outside, ciliate and densely covered inside 

 Mdth long purple persistent hairs ; lobes 3-5 lin. long, 2J-4J lin. broad, 

 deltoid-ovate, acute. Outer corona arising at the base of the staminal- 

 column and as long as it, cup-shaped, with 10 subulate teeth 1 lin. long, 

 and often with a minute tooth between each pair, hairy and more or 

 less ciliate ; inner coronal-lobes J lin. long, linear, incumbent on the 

 backs of the anthers and not produced beyond them, dorsally connected 

 to the outer corona by narrow partitions, glabrous. Staminal-column 

 2 lin. long ; anthers subquadrate, obtuse, without an appendage, incum- 

 bent on the truncate apex of the style. 



xrile land. Harnish Island, in the Eed Sea, Slade, 20 ! Eritrea : neigh- 

 bourhood of i^aati, Schtveivfiirth Sf Siva, 519 ! 



Of this I have seen only a few flowers and. a rough sketch of the plant. It 

 appears to be similar to C. retrospiciens, N. E. Br., in habit ; the flowers are also 

 similar but twice as large, and very hairy within. In the specimens collected by 

 Schweinfurth & Riva (519), the flowers are smaller in the dried state, although 

 densely covered with persistent hairs as in C. hirtiflora. 



3. C. retrospiciens, N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 370. 

 Stems 1-2-2 ft. high, branched, very stout, acutely 4-angled ; angles 

 much compressed, about | in. broad, with broad deltoid decurved teeth, 

 glabrous. Umbels terminal, sessile^ usually several clustered together, 

 forming a large compound globose umbel 3-4 in. in diam., with a 

 hundred or more flowers ; pedicels f-l J in. lorg, glabrous. Sepals 



