536 ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). [ Raphionacme, 
Katanari Region: Transvanl; hills near Rustenburg and between there and 
Pretoria, Miss Alice Pegler, 1054! near the Olifants River, 3000 ft,, Schlechter, 
3768! (a specimen from Lydenburg, Wilms, 955, may belong here). 
Eastern Reeion: Pondoland; near the mouth of St. Jolin’s River, Bolus, 
8308! Griqualand East ; hills around Clydesdale, 4300 ft., Tyson, 1248 ! Natal ; 
Verulam and Inanda, Wood, 849! and without precise locality, Gerrard § 
McKen, 1801! Zululand ; Sebundini, Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 7567! Swazi- 
land; near Bremersdorp, 2200 ft., Bolus, 12153! on a ridge between Bremers- 
dorp and Miles, Burtt Davy, 2940! 
Specimens’ collected near Fort Bowker in Transkei (Bowker, 377) are only 
6-9 in. high, but must, I think, be referred to this species, which is readily 
distinguished from R. Galpinii by its much larger stature and very minute 
pubescence. ; 
According to Miss Alice Pegler the flowers are cream-coloured. 
5. R. Galpinii (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii., Beibl. 45, 14, 
not elsewhere) ; tuber up to 6 in. in diam., depressed; stems 2-9 in. 
high, puberulous, usually simple ; leaves 3-7 pairs to a stem, shortly 
petiolate, 1-3 iv. long, 3-9 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, narrowly 
oblong, oblanceolate-oblong or narrowly obovate, acute, or obtuse and 
apiculate, conspicuously and softly pubescent on both sides ; petioles 
1i-3 lin. long; cymes very dense, subglobose, about % in. in 
diam., subaxillary, or crowded together at the top of the stem, 
many-flowered, sessile or pedunculate ; peduncles 2-6 lin. long, 
pubescent ; bracts 2-3 lin. long, subulate, pubescent ; sepals 14-2} 
lin. long, 1-3 Jin. broad, linear-subulate, pubescent; corolla pubes- 
cent outside, bright green; tube campanulate, 1-1} lin. long ; lobes 
13-22 lin. long, 8-11 lin. broad, oblong or elongate-ovate, obtuse, 
ascending; corona-lobes arising at the mouth of the corolla-tube, 
very shortly transverse-rectangular at the base, 3-fid, the middle 
segment or tooth 14-2 lin. long, filiform, the lateral varying from 
mere acute shoulder-teeth to filiform and 1-1 as long as the middle 
segment, erect or more or less divergent, sometimes connate with 
those of the adjacent lobes and forming 5 short bifid lobules 
alternating with 5 long filiform teeth ; anthers ovate, acute. 2. 
macrorrhiza, Schlechter th Engl. Jahrb. xx., Beibl. 51, 10, and in 
Journ. Bot. 1896, 315. 
KatanarRt ReGion: Transvaal, 40CO-6000 ft.; slopes of the Saddleback 
Range near Barberton, Galpin, 613! near and around Johannesburg, 
anon in Herb. Galpin, 6043! Rand, 711! 1123! near Pretoria, Leenderta, 
Eastern ReGion: Natal; Groen Berg, Wood, 1032! Inanda and near 
Verulam, Wood, 1060! Greenwich Farm, Riet Vici, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 
2750! near Clairmont, 100 ft., Wood, 4925! Schlechter, 3084! near Krantz 
A 9 1400 ft., Schlechter, 3213! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 
I can find no specific distinction between R. Galpinii and R. macrorrhiza, 
the side-teeth of the corona-lobes being variable. But it would appear that at 
the time of publishing R. macrorrhiza Dr. Schlechter mistook R. elata for 
R. Galpinii, since he quotes his 3768 as being the latter species on the same 
page. 
6. RB. Zeyheri (Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 1842, 23); 
plant 2-5 in. high, branching from the woody neck of the tuber, very 
