Raphionacme. | ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). 535 
I have examined a type specimen of C. Flanagani, but do not find the leaves 
“‘ovate- or lanceolate-elliptic ” nor the corolla-lobes 2 lin. broad, as described by 
Schlechter. 
3. R. procumbens (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx., Beibl. 51, 11) ; 
plant branchizg at the base; branches 1-1 ft. long, procumbent, 
softly villous-pubescent ; jeaves somewhat rigidly eoriaceous when 
dried ; petiole 1-4 lin. long; blade 1-21 in. long, 31~7 lin. broad, 
narrowly oblong, oblong-lanceolate or elliptie-lanceolate, acute or 
obtuse and apiculate, both sides covered with rather long soft spread- 
ing hairs, but more densely beneath; eymes subglobose, about 2 in. 
in diam., rather densely many-flowered, apparently pendent (always !), 
on recurved or spreading peduncles 2-5 lin. long, shortly villous- 
pubescent on all parts to the outside of the corolla ; bracts 1-12 lin. 
Jong, subulate ; pedicels 11-11 lin. long, curved ; sepals 11-12 lin. 
long, sometimes united into a short tube at the base, ovate-lanceo- 
late, acuminate ; corolla-tube + lin. long; lobes about 12 lin. (2 lin. 
ex Schlechter) long, ® lin. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
obtuse, with slightly incurved margins, glabrous on the inner face ; 
corona-lobes arising at the mouth of the corolla-tube, trifid, with the 
middle tooth searcely 1 lin. long and 3-4 times as long as the lateral 
teeth, but shorter than the anthers, which are connivent into an 
acute cone } lin. long, with connate tips. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1896, 315. 
Katanart Region: Transvaal; stony places on the Elandspruit Mountains, 
5300 ft., Schlechter, 3867! 
Described from part of the type in Herb. Bolus. The pubescerce on the 
leaves and flowers is like that of R. Galpinii, but the hairs on the stem are 
much longer and the flowers smaller, 
4, R. elata (N. E. Br.); stems 1-2 ft. high, usually simple, 
erect, sometimes with a slight indication of twining at the terminal 
part, minutely and softly puberulous; leaves petiolate; petiole 
2-4 lin. long; blade 13-31 in. long, 1-2} in. broad, linear-lanceo- 
late, lanceolate, oblong, obovate-oblong or elliptic, acute or obtuse 
and apiculate, cuneate to rounded at the base, minutely puberulous 
on both sides, paler beneath; eymes lateral at the nodes or sub- 
axillary and terminal, subglobose, 3-1 in. in diam., subsessile or on 
peduncles 1-6 lin. long, many-flowered; bracts 3-4 lin. long, 
subulate, pubescent ; pedicels 14-2 lin. long, softly pubescent; sepals 
2-25 lin. long, subulate, acute ; corolla velvety pubescent outside ; 
tube about 12 lin. long, campanulate ; lobes 23-3 lin. long, 1} lin. 
broad, oblong or somewhat ovate-oblong, obtuse, spreading, green, 
purple at the base ; corona-lobes trifid, shortly transverse-rectangular 
at the green base; middle segment 2-22 lin. long, filiform, white ; 
lateral segments 2 lin. long, filiform or subulate ; anthers oblong, 
apiculate ; pollen-carriers ] lin. long, with an ovate-lanceolate blade 
and slender stalk of about equal length ; follicles solitary (always 4), 
43-5 in. long, 1 in. thick, terete-fusiform, tapering into a beak, 
smooth, puberulous. R. Galpinii, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx., 
Beibl. 51, 10, not of xviii. Beibl. 45, 14. 
