434 CXL. LiLiACE^ (baker). [Asjxiragus. 



SXozamb. Sist. liritish Central Africa : near Lake N^'ami, common throughout 

 the district from tlie Orange River to tlie Cunene River, Schinz ! 

 Also in South Africa. 



81. A. racemosus, Willd. Sp. Plant, ii. 152. A climbing shrub. 

 Branches terete, woody, glabrous ; branchlets copious, spreading. 

 Leaves produced at the base into a pungent spur. Cladodia 2-G in 

 a cluster, subulate or slightly flattened, J-| in. long. Racemes solitary 

 or fascicled, lax, 1-2 in. long ; pedicels \-\ in. long, articulated at the 

 middle ; bracts minute, membranous. Perianth white, yV^i ^^' ^^^% > 

 segments spreading. Stamens rather shorter than the perianth. Berries 

 usually 1-seeded, J-i in. diam. — Wight, Ic. t. 205G ; Baker in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, xiv. Q2f) ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 169 ; Schweinf. in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 7G. A. petitianus, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. 

 Abyss, ii. 320. Asparagopsis ahyssinica, Kunth, Enum. v. 101. 



Upper Guinea. Ashanti ; Akroful, Cummins, 31 ! 



TSile Iiand. Nubia : Mersa Sheikh Barud, Schweinfurth, 504 ! Eritrea : 

 Oek'h, 4800-5800 ft., Schweinfurth, 1118; Amba, 6100 ft., Schweinfurth, 1391! 

 Liilamba Peak, near Keren, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth, 963. Saganeiti, 7100 ft., 

 Schweinfurfh, 1236. Abyssinia: Aferbeine, i2o^A, 550 ! Mount Semayata, <ScAt/rajoer, 

 374 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 240 ! 725 ! 1075 ! Somaliland : Valley 

 of the River Ruspoli, Riva, 851 ! British East Africa : Madi, in woods, Speke Sf 

 Grant, 38 ! Mombasa, Hildehrandt, 1049b ! Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 8874 ! 



Zio^trer Guinea. Angola : Loanda and Huilla ; in thickets, Welwitsch, 3848 ! 

 3849 ! 3850 ! 3855 ! German South-west Africa : Amboland ; Grootfontein, Schinz^ 

 41! 



IMCozamb. Sist. Zanzibar, Kirk ! German East Africa : Usambaro ; Mascheua, 

 Hoist, 34-88! between Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, 3000 ft., Volkens, 2034! Lake 

 Tanganyika, Cameron ! British Central Africa : Urungu ; Niomkolo, near Lake 

 Tanganyika, Carson ! Ngamiland ; Nakalechwe, Lugard, 25a ! 



Also in Tropical Asia. 



32. A. Buchanani, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1893, 211. A much- 

 branched climbing shrub, with slender glabrous branchlets. Leaves pro- 

 duced into a small pungent spur. Cladodia 2—6 in a cluster, narrowly 

 linear, rigid, 1-nerved, J in. long. Racemes copious, lateral, lax, 1 J-2 in. 

 long ; pedicels erecto-patent, rather longer than the flowers, articulated 

 at the tip ; bracts minute, persistent, ovate-lanceolate. Perianth -f^ in. 

 long ; segments spreading from the base. Stamens as long as the 

 perianth ; anthers small, globose. 



AKozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Karagwe ; on dry hills at 4000-5000 ft., 

 Scott'lUliot, 8196 ! Portuguese East Africa : Lupata, on the River Zambesi, Kirk ! 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Blantyre, Buchanan ! Namasi River, Cameron, 

 23 ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1503 ! 



33. A. aethiopicus, Z^'titi. il/ftni. 63. A climbing shrub. Branches 

 woody, terete, glabrous ; branchlets angled, sulcate, curved. Leav^es 

 produced at the base into a pungent spine. Cladodia 3-6 in a cluster, 

 linear, moderately firm, distinctly costate, ^-1 in. long. Racemes lax, 

 axillary, 2-3 in. long ; pedicels J- J in. long, articulated at the middle ; 

 bracts minute, ovate or lanceolate. Perianth white, fragrant, xV~i ^^' 



