. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. 196. NORMAN K. B. ROBSON nodes, often with lateral flowering branches; pedicels 10-25 mm long; bracts intermediate. Flowers 35-70 mm in diam., stellate; buds ovoid, acute. Sepals 5-15 x 2-5 mm, imbricate to basally open, unequal, reflexed in fruit, ovate-lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, acute, margin glandular-ciliate or -denticulate, midrib un- differentiated; laminar glands linear, numerous; submarginal and marginal glands dark. Petals golden yellow to lemon-yellow, not tinged, tardily deciduous, spreading to reflexed, (17-)20-41
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. 196. NORMAN K. B. ROBSON nodes, often with lateral flowering branches; pedicels 10-25 mm long; bracts intermediate. Flowers 35-70 mm in diam., stellate; buds ovoid, acute. Sepals 5-15 x 2-5 mm, imbricate to basally open, unequal, reflexed in fruit, ovate-lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, acute, margin glandular-ciliate or -denticulate, midrib un- differentiated; laminar glands linear, numerous; submarginal and marginal glands dark. Petals golden yellow to lemon-yellow, not tinged, tardily deciduous, spreading to reflexed, (17-)20-41 x 10-25 mm, 2-3 x sepals, obovate, with apiculus obtuse; external margin with few sessile or intramarginal dark reddish glands, internal margin dark-glandular-ciliate; laminar glands linear, not interrupted. Stamen fasci- cles tardily deciduous, each with c. 30 stamens, longest 15—22(—25) mm long, 0-5-0-75 x petals, with filaments very shortly united. Ovary 5-8 x 3-5 mm, rather broadly to narrowly ovoid; styles 8-13 mm long, 1-2-1-6 x ovary, completely or almost completely coherent; stigma mass capitate or subcapitate. Capsule 10-16 x 5-10 mm, broadly to narrowly ovoid. Seeds yellow-brown, c. 1 mm long, cylindric, not winged, slightly carinate, shallowly linear-reticulate. 2n = ? In rocky places, gulleys, and river banks in upland grassland or deciduous woodland; 1150-3300m. Yemen, Ethiopia, Sudan Republic (south), Kenya (Mt. Elgon), Uganda (Mt. Elgon, Karamoja), Tanzania (southern), Zaire (Shaba), Malawi (Misuku, Nyika, Vipya), Zambia (Mbala, Serenje), Mozambique (Lago). Map 5. YEMEN. Jebel Raymah above Hadia, on NW. of Jebel Thallamlam, near Na'ama,c. 1800 m, 1979, Wood2817 (BM). SUDAN REPUBLIC. Equatoria [El Istwaya]: Torit, near Moimoi Dongotonas, 1800 m, , Jackson 1096 (BM). ETHIOPIA. Tigray: Djenda, Demben, , Steudner 1439 (K). Gonder: near Gondar 3000 m, , Greathead 92 (BM, EA, K). Gojam: Chamoga valley, of Debre Marcos, 250
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