862 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Asclepias integra N. E. Br. Sultan Hamoud. No. 648. 
A, denticulata Schlechter. Kikui. No. 1003. 
Asclepias Kaessneri N. E. Br. sp.nov. Stems erect, branch- 
ing, clothed with a white woolly pubescence on the terminal parts, 
becoming glabrous below. Leaves opposite, ascending-spreading ; 
petiole 4-} in. long, woolly when young; blade 81-64 in. long, 
oe in. broad, linear-lanceolate, gradually tapering to a very acute 
point, more or less acute at the base, flat or narrowly revolute along 
the margins, seme on both sides, or with a very minute scattered 
pubescence ab and thinly woolly along the midrib beneath 
mbels sever “ rs ‘ stem, racomosely scattered along its upper 
portion, 4-6-flowered, ascending; peduncles and pedicels equal, 
3~1} line long, seats. Sepals 24-31 lines ria 1 line broad at the 
base, thence gradually tapering to a very acute point, woolly, re- 
flexed. Corolla lobed almost to the base, eee from the base, 
apparently whitish or yellowish ; lobes 44-5 lin. long, 24-2} lin. 
broad, ovate, obtusely pointed, ‘shortly ciliate along one margin, 
otherwise quite glabrous. Coronal lobes arising 4-3 lin. above the 
base of staminal column, and reaching to the same level, 
13-2 lin. long and broad, cuneately suborbicular in side view, much 
comprese, divided or complicate for only 4 of the distance from 
the inner to the dorsal margin, with a falcate denticulate tooth from 
each ioniteal angle recurving within a groove about 4 lin. deep along 
the top of the lobe, which has a keel or crest extending along the 
ap 
rounded. Style depressed- truncate at the apex. Young follicles 
solitary, on. very densely covered with long spreading inter- 
mingled hair-like pubescent processes greenish yellow in colour. 
Hab. Kiu, n 
All ) yr onto N. E. Br., but differing in its broader 
leaves, coronal — and much more ‘slender tortuous (not straight) 
processes on the fruit. I am indebted to Mr. N. E. Brown for the 
foregoing deantlotinn, 
- ghana Hochst. Moa (no. 83), and Schimba Mt. (without 
num 
A. retlewa Britten & Rendle. Mantaogo. No. 159. 
2 eer viminale R. Br. Simba and Bome River. Nos. 816, 
Demia extensa R. Br. Kili Makei. No. 612. 
Cynanchum validum N. Ei, Br. Kibwezi River. er hae 
Pentarrhinwn insipidum BE. Mey. Makindo. No. 5 
re Ege le stenolobha N. HE. Br. Duruma River. No. B95 (det. 
