583 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [Raphionacme. 
folded lengthwise, narrowly oblong-linear or linear, obtuse or acute, 
acutely tapering into the petiole at the base, grey-green (from the 
pubescence) beneath, darker above; cymes sublateral at the nodes 
and terminal, pedunculate, rather densely 10-25-flowered ; peduncles 
2-4 lin. long; bracts subulate, 11-2 lin. long ; pedicels 1-14 lin. 
long; sepals slightly exceeding the corolla-tube, 1-12 lin. long, 
+ lin. broad, lanceolate, attenuate-acute; corolla-tube 1 lin. long, 
campanulate ; lobes suberect, 13—2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong, 
obtuse, glabrous on the inner face, green, not twisted in bud ; corona- 
lobes arising at the mouth of the corolla-tube, trifid, very shortly 
transverse-rectangular at the base ; segments filiform, the middle one 
1-1} lin. long, the lateral 2 lin. long, ereetly spreading; anthers 
ovate, acuminate, somewhat wavy at the margins; pollen-carriers 
pale ochreous yellow, spathulate, with a lanceolate obtuse or slightly 
bifid blade, revolute at the margins, and a rather slender stalk 
% as long as the blade. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 315. 
Katanart Re@ion; Transvaal; near Heidelberg, 4900 ft., Schlechter, 
3509 ; near Irene, Conrath, 979! 
I have not seen a type specimen of R. velutina, and the above description is 
made entirely from Conrath’s 979, which is the only specimen I have seen that at 
all corresponds with Schlechter’s description of R. velutina and has a really 
“velvety” pubescence. In the British Museum, however, specimens of RB. 
Burkei are named by Schlechter himself as being “‘ R. velutina,” whilst the same 
plant in Herb. Conrath is named by him “R. Zeyheri,” Conrath’s 979 being 
named “R. procwmbens.”” Upon comparison with the type of R. procumbens 
(Schlechter, 3867) I find that to be a totally different plant, whilst the pubes- 
cence on R. Burke is scarcely velvety and the leaves are glabrous above. Iam, 
therefore, uncertain as to what plant 2. velutina is, but if I am right in identi- 
fying Conrath’s specimen with it, the much longer and more evident pubescence, 
which resembles that on R. Galpinii and is present on both sides of the leaves, 
readily distinguishes it from its allies. 
9. R. divaricata (Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 1842, 23) ; 
a dwarf herb 23-8 in. high, much branched, pubescent with short 
spreading hairs on the stems, under surface of the leaves, peduncle, 
pedicels, calyx and outside of the corolla; leaves spreading or 
ascending ; petiole }~3 lin. long; blade 3~12 in. long, 2-1 in. broad, 
elliptic, orbicular or broadly obovate, acute ur obtuse and apiculate, 
rounded or cureately narrowed at the base; cymes sublateral at the 
nodes, or central in the forks of the stem, 5- to many-flowered ; 
subsessile or on peduncles up to 1 in. long; bracts 2-12 lin. long, 
subulate, acute ; pedicels 3-6 lin. long; sepals 1-2 lin. long, +—} 
lin. broad, lanceolate-subulate, acute ; corolla very variable in size, 
purple; tube 1-14 lin. long, campanulate; lobes 11-4 lin. long, 
&_]1 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, spreading ; corona-lobes exceedingly 
variable in size and form, varying even in the same flower, connivent 
over the staminal column, white or purple-tinted, 2-2 lin. long, 
1_] lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-obovate, oblong-subspathu- 
late, or lanceolate, gradually or abruptly contracted into a short or 
long, simple or bifid filiform point, or simply bifid to about 3 the 
way down, entire, cr the broad terminal part more or less denticulate 
