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36. A. faleatus (Linn. Sp. Plant. 449); stems stout, terete, 
woody, wide-climbing; prickles large, spreading, pungent ; branchlets 
slender, woody terete, stramineous, flexuose; phyllocladia 1-3-nate 
at the side, up to 6-8 in a cluster at the tip of the branchlets, 
lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, 3-1 in. broad, bright green, 1-nerved, 
_ moderately firm in texture; racemes 1-2 in. long, 1-3-nate ; 
pedicels 1~2-nate at the sides, clustered at the tips, articulated at 
‘the middle, 3-} in. long; perianth campanulate, ,—-} in. long; 
segments oblong, obtuse, spreading widely; stamens shorter than the 
perianth ; anthers minute; berry globose, 1l-seeded, } in. diam. 
Bresl. Diss. No.2; Kunth, Enum. v. 71; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xiv. 626. A. ethiopicus, var. ternifolius, Baker in Saund. Ref. 
Bot. t. 261; Gard. Chron. 1872, 1588, fig. 338. 
Easteen Reeion: Kaffraria, Cooper, 3253! Natal; near Durban, Wood, 
2271 and without precise locality, Gerrard, 746! Gerrard and McKen, 753! 
Also Tropical Asia and Tropical Africa, 
37. A. Sprengeri (Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. xi. 302); stems 
woody, terete, wide-climbing ; prickles small, hooked; phyllocladia 
1-4 nate, flat, linear, glabrous, bright green, straight or slightly 
curved, 1-13 in. long, }; in. broad ; racemes 3-1 in. long; pedicels 
zx in. long, articulated at the middle; bracts as long as the pedicels; 
perianth j, in. long; segments oblong; stamens shorter than the 
perianth ; anthers minute; berry'} in. diam. 
Eastegzn ReGion: Natal. Described from cultivated specimens. 
38. A. myriocladus (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1889, 43); main stem 
woody, terete, suberect, many-ribbed; prickles slender, pungent, 
deflexed ; branchlets short, crowded, very slender, strongly angled, 
simple, ascending; phyllocladia 3-8-nate, linear, rigid, mucronate, 
; in. long; racemes lax, about an inch long, produced from the 
woody main stems; pedicels ,-} in. long, articulated at the 
middie; bracts ovate-lanceolate; perianth ~; in. long; segments 
obtuse; stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers minute, 
globose. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 355! 
39. A. ethiopicus (Linn. Mant. 63); stems woody, terete, 
climbing, many-ribbed ; prickles large, spreading, pungent ; branch- 
lets short, simple, spreading, strongly angled ; phyllocladia linear, 
rigid, 3-6-nate, ascending, mucronate, about % in. long; racemes 
2-3 in. long, produced from the main stems, spreading ; pedicels 
zy-} in. long; articulated at the middle; bracts minute, lanceo- 
late; perianth campanulate, #, in. long; segments oblong, obtuse ; 
stamens nearly as long as the perianth; anthers minute, globose ; 
berry I-seeded, } in, diam. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 158; Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst.» Veg. vii. 335 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 626. 
A. lanceus, Thunb. Prodr. 66 ; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 334. A. faleatus, 
Linn. Herb, Asparagupsis ethiopica, Kunth, Enum. v. 95, 
