684 Lxxxiii. ASCLEPiADE^. [Asckpias 



red flowers. By a stream on the higher parts of Monte Verde in 

 St. Vincent, wild, perhaps not indigenous ; fl. Aug. 1853. No. 4181. 



According to a note of Welwitsch the root is somewhat drastically- 

 purgative. 



2. A, firma Sohlecter ms. in Herb. Mus. Erit. 

 Schizoglossum firmvm, N.E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 252. 

 HuiLLA. — ^Corolla whitish violet in colour. In the higher moist 



thickets near LopoUo ; fl. Jan. 1860. No. 4191. 



The corona has its lateral margins broadly inflected with a slight 

 keel along the lines of folding and another keel down the inflected 

 portions ; each of the inflected portions has an erect rounded terminal 

 lobe approximated to that of the other inflected portion ; the pollen- 

 masses are almost discoid and agree with those of Asclepias. 



3. A. Frederiei Hiern, sp. n. 



A slendei' shrub, loosely or sparingly branched from the base 

 upwards, 3 to 5 ft. high or rarely taller ; branches spreading, 

 subterete, smooth, dusky; branchlets more or less spreading, 

 softly white-tomentose, leafy, fistular ; leaves opposite or the 

 upper ones crowded, elongate-linear, pointed at the apex, some- 

 what wedge-shaped towards the sessile or subsessile base, dry-fleshy, 

 grass-green, sparingly hairy or nearly glabrescent above, more or 

 less clothed vnth whitish hairs beneath, revolute along the lateral 

 margins, 1 to 4 in. long by ^-^ to ^ in. broad, uniuerved or vsdth 1 or 2 

 very slender nerves beneath on each side of the midrib ; flowers 

 greenish-yellowish ochroleucous or sulphur-coloured ; pedicels 

 tomentose or pilose with white hairs, slender, umbellate, 4 to 6 

 together, |- to |- in. long ; common peduncle lateral to the axils, 

 tomento.se or pilose, about as long as the pedicels ; sepals spread- 

 ing or reflected, lanceolate, acute, |^ in. long, pale green, pilose on 

 the back ; corolla deeply lobed, the lobes broadly ovate, scarcely 

 acute, pilosulous on the back, ^ in. long, spreading or reflected, 

 glabrous or minutely glandular in front ; andi'oecium ^ in. long ; 

 corona-scales \ in. long, reaching as high as the anthers, indu- 

 plicate, subquadrate as folded, with straight vertical inner 

 margins, curved along the top entire margins, keeled along the 

 back and base to the attachment with the staminal column, and 

 usually with an erect short lobule or tooth at the apex of each 

 or one inner side ; anther-tip appendages membranous, ovate- 

 deltoid, incurving; follicles inflated, oblong-spherical, . sulphur- 

 coloured, spotted with purple, aculeate, \\ to 2 in. long, pilose ; 

 prickles weak, pilosulous, violet-purple. 



PuNGO Andongo.— A lovely shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, rarely more, 

 branched from the base ; leaves rather fleshy, grass-green ; flowers 

 sulphur-yellow ; follicles oblong- spherical, sulphur-yellow spotted with 

 purple, beset with weak violet-purple prickles. On the more elevated 

 ranges of the rocks in the prsesidium where it is a shrublet of 2 ft. 

 in height, in the deep valleys 4 to 5 ft ; fl. and f r. end of Nov. 1856. 

 No. 4160. A loosely branched elegant shrub, 4 to 5 ft. high ; flowers 

 green-yellowish. On the tops of the rocks of the prsesidium, plenti- 

 ful ; fl. Deo. 1856 ; fr. March 1857. No. 4161. A slender shrub, 

 3 to 5 ft. high ; branches sparse, spreading ; leaves dryly rather 



