260 LILIACEZ (Baker). [ Asparagus. 
CGuast Recion: Bedford Div. ; in a kloof near Bedford, Elliot, 691! Stocken- 
strom Div.; Katberg, Mrs. Barber! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 202 partly ! 
Cenrrat Reoion: Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 8000 ft., Burchell, 3197! 
MacOwan, 1918! 
Katanargt Reeion: Transvaal; damp grassy hollows around Barberton, 
2800 ft., Galpin, 1155! 
Eastern Recton: Pondoland; between Umtata River and St. John’s River, 
1003-2000 ft., Drage, 4483b! Natal; woods near Umlaas (Umlazi?) River, 
Krauss, 856! Port Natal, Drége, 4483c! Inanda, Wood, 1373! and on the 
Drakensberg, Cooper, 2248 ! 
Also occurs in British Central Africa. 
6. A. nodosus (Solander in herb. Banks.); stems woody, suberect, 
pale, densely pubescent; main leaves not produced into distinct 
spines at the base; branches straight; branchlets erecto-patent; 
cladodia subulate, ~,-3 in. long, moderately robust, in clusters of 
6-10 at the axillary nodes; flowers 2—4-nate; pedicels very short; 
perianth very small; stamens about as long as the perianth segments ; 
anthers oblong. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 608. 
Sovran Arrica: without locality, Masson / in the British Museum Herbarium. 
7. A. plumosus (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 613); stems 
terete, green, glabrous, sarmentose; main leaves not produced into 
distinet prickles ; branches decompound, spreading horizontally, with 
the branchlets and cladodia in one plane; cladodia very slender, 
filiform, bright green, 6-12 in a cluster, 3-} in. long ; pedicels 1-2- 
nate, shorter than the flowers, articulated at the middle; perianth 
campanulate, § in. long; segments oblaneeolate-oblong, spreading 
widely ; stamens } the length of the perianth; berry globose, bright 
black, 1-seeded, 3 in. diam. 
Coast Recton : British Kaffraria, Cooper, 202 partly ! 
Esstzrn Recion: Pondoland, Bachmann, 261! Natal; Port Natal, Drége, 
end Melon, 1 bras 1649 !_ and without precise locality, Gerrard, 227! Gerrard 
—— vg of all the species for decorative purposes, and now widely spread caf : 
8. A. consanguineus (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 615); 
stems slender, terete, glabrous, green, sarmentose; lower leaves with 
only a small deltoid spur ; branches pinnate, spreading or deflexed, 
flexuose, with very slender deflexed branchlets; cladodia filiform, 
bright green, flexuose, about } in. long, 10-80 in a cluster; pedicels 
1—-2-nate, cernuous, about as long as the cladodia, articulated at the 
apex; perianth campanulate, 4 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, 
spreading falcately ; stamens nearly as long as the perianth; ovules 
5-6 in a cell. Asparagopsis consanguinea, Kunth, Enum. v. 76. 
Asparagus scandens, Herb. Drége,non Thunb. A. declinatus, Eckl. 
and Zeyh. Exsic., non Linn. 
Sours Arnica : without locality, Thunberg! Mund! 
Coast ReGion: Piquetberg Div. ; between Krom River and Pieters Fontein 
on the Piquet Berg, below 1000 ft., Drage / 
