Cryptolepis. | ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). ; 527 
triangular, with the connective produced into a fleshy apiculus, 
united to the dilated part of the style at the base, more or less 
connivent in a cone. Pollen granular; pollen-earrier more or less 
spathulate. Style not exceeding the anthers, shortly conical at the 
apex. follicles linear-terete, subfusiform or ovate, smooth. Seeds 
crowned with a tuft of hairs. 
Erect or twining shrubs; leaves opposite; flowers small or of moderate size, 
arranged in subaxillary or terminal cymes, or rarely subsolitary. 
Distris. A genus of several species, ranging through the warmer parts of the 
Old World as far north as Cashmere. 
Corolla-lobes 3-5 lin, long, linear-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate : 
Leaves acute; pedicels $-1 in. long $c ss 
Leaves obtuse or retuse, apiculate; pedicels 
1-2 lin. long es re = ex wi 
Corolla-lobes under 2° lin. long, oblong or linear- 
oblong: 
Petioles 4-1 lin. long : 
Stems twining; corona-lobes oblong, obtuse (3) delagoensis. 
Stems erect, not twining ; corona-lobes sub- 
terete or clavate a8 iid ... (5) oblongifolia. 
Petioles 2-4 lin. long; stems scrambling or 
twining ; corona-lobes clavate ... dn ... (4) transvaalensis. 
(1) capensis. 
(2) obtusa. 
1. C. capensis (Schlechter in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
xxxv. 47); stem twining, slender, woody, glabrous, minutely 
tuberculate; leaves glabrous, thin; petiole 2-6 lin. long; blade 
11-82 in. long, 1-12 in. broad, lanceolate to elliptic, acute, acumi- 
nate or shortly cuspidate at the apex, acute at the base; eymes 
lateral at the nodes or subterminal, very lax, once or twice dicho- 
tomously or trichotomously forked, pedunculate, glabrous ; branches 
3-3 in. long, racemosely few-flowered ; peduncle 3-24 in. long; 
bracts 1-1 lin. long, subulate, glabrous; pedicels 3-1 in. long, 
glabrous ; sepals about 12 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, glabrous ; corolla long-acuminate and twisted in bud, glabrous ; 
tube 2—25 lin. long, campanulate ; lobes spreading, twisted, 4—5 lin. 
long when unrolled, lanceolate, acuminate, or tapering from a 
12-12 lin. broad base to a linear apex ; corona-lobes affixed at the 
middle of the corolla-tube, 1-2 lin. long, ovate or rhomboid- 
ovate, obtusely pointed, fleshy; stamens arising § lin. above the 
base of the corolla; filaments very short; anthers nearly + lin. 
long, ovate, very acuminate, connivent over the very short conical 
apex of the style; follicles 4-8} in. long, 2-21 lin. thick, terete, 
acuminate, slightly nodose; seeds 5 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 
linear-oblong, keeled and concave on one side, convex, with raised 
irregular lines on the other side, glabrous, dark brown. Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1896, 315. ‘ 
Eastern ReGion: Transkei; near Kentani, Miss Alice. Pegler, 663! Natal; 
Nonoti River, Gerrard, 1319! Inanda, Wood, 761! 886! 1583! McKen, 6! and 
without precise locality, McKen, 21! Sanderson / 
