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FLORA OF ADEN. 
1. Kanaliia lauiflora R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soe. I, 40 ; Iv. Schum. 
in Engl. & Prantl. Pdanzenfam. IV, II, 2*33, not of Decne. ; Brown in 
This -Dyer El. trop. Afr. IV, sect. I, 296. 
Kanaliia Delilii Decne. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, IX, 330, in DC. 
Prodr. VIII, 537 ; A. Rich. Tent. El. Abyss. II, 34; Engl. Hochge- 
birgsfl. Trop. Afr 342; Schweinf. in Hohnel, Zum Rudolf-See n. 
Stephanie-See, Separatabdr. 8 ; Schweinf. & Volkens Liste PI. Somalis 
10; Martelli El. Bogos. 51; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 
1892, 349 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pd. Ost.-Afr. C. 323, in Engl. & 
Prantl Pflanzenfam. IV, II, 233, et in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma. 
VII, 37. 
Asclepias laniflora Eorsk. El. Aegypt.-Arab. 51 ; Vahl Symb. I, 
23, t. 7 ; Delile Cent. PL Voy. Mero6, 49, t. 3, fig. 3. 
Description : — Stem 4 — 6 feet high, branching, glabrous. Leaves 
ascending or somewhat spreading, with a cluster of short bristles or teeth 
in their axils and along the rudimentary stipular line connecting their 
bases; petiole 1^ — 3 lines long; blade 2 1 — 6 inches long, 2 — 6 lines 
broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, gradually tapering to an acute 
point, acutely narrowed into the petiole, quite glabrous, not revolute at 
the margin. 
Peduncles 1 — 2 inches long, rather stout, glabrous, lateral at the 
nodes, many-flowered at the apical part, which becomes raceme-like 
from the gradual development of the flowers ; lowest bracts 2 — 9 lines 
long, the rest 1J — 3 lines, linear or subulate, acute, glabrous, mostly with 
minute bristle-like teeth at their base, like those in the leaf -axils ; 
pedicels \ — 1 inch long, glabrous. Sepals 2 — 3 lines long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 7 — 9 lines in diameter, campanulate, 5- 
lobed to half-way down or beyond ; lobes 4 — 5 lines long, ascending, 
ovate, acute, glabrous outside, more or less densely woolly' within along 
the borders. Coronal lobes arising f lines above the base of the staminal 
column and reaching to its summit, 2 lines long, erect, stout, turgid- 
oblong, fleshy, solid, not in the least complicate, abruptly contracted at 
the apex on the inner side into a simple or bifid subulate tooth or beak, 
indexed over the tips of the anthers. All the lobes are connected to one 
another at their base by very obtuse minute flaps that form five pockets, 
enclosing the basal parts of the anther- wings. Staminal column 2| — 3 
lines long ; anther-appendages broadly subcordate-ovate, obtuse, indexed 
over the apex of the style. Pollen-masses (excluding the caudicles) J line 
long, J line thick, turgid, not compressed. 
Follicles 2 — 2J inches long, lanceolate, acuminate into a beak, glabrous, 
scrobiculate, but not echinate. Seeds 2 lines long, ovoid, tapering * into 
