544 ASCLEPIADEX (Brown). [ Secamone. 
anther-appendages, simply divided into 2 linear-lanceolate lobes, or 
dilated into a 2-lobed head at the apex, with the lobes flattened 
and elliptic-oblong or short, thick and conical, acute or obtuse. 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 353, and 1897, 290, and in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii., Beibl. 45, 2. 
Coast Reeion: Komgha Div. ; woods near the mouth of the Kei River 
and in woods near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 376 (ex Schlechter); among 
shrubs near the Kei River, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 6249 ! 
EastERN Reecion: Tembuland; near Clarkbury, Hallack! Natal; near 
Durban, climbing over the tops of the trees, Gerrard S° McKen, 86! 513 ! 
Gerrard, 20! Wood, 4497! and in Natal Herb. 365! McKen, 710! Inanda, 
Wood, 175! 622! 
The anther-appendages in this species are produced downwards into large 
quadrate flaps that cover up the anther-cells and partly hide the pollen- 
carriers. 
2. §. zambesiaca (Schlechter), var. parvifolia (N. E. Br.); 
shrubby or twining ; branchlets glabrous or nearly so; leaves thin ; 
petiole 1-12 lin. long; blade 2-14 in. long, 1-} in. broad, narrowly 
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, rounded or sub- 
cuneate at the base, glabrous; cymes axillary and terminal, {-} in. 
in diam., 3—5-flowered, with very short ascending branchlets; 
peduncles 3-3 lin. long, glabrous; bracts 4-1 lin. long, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, minutely ciliate; pedicels 
1-2 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 2 lin. long, elliptic or broadly ovate, 
obtuse to subacute, minutely ciliate ; corolla about 2 lin. in diam., 
quite glabrous; tube 1-1 lin. long; lobes 1 lin. long, oblong, 
obtuse; corona-lobes minute, subulate, nearly reaching to the top 
of the staminal column ; style-apex exserted 1-1 lin. beyond the 
anther-tips, cylindric, entire or minutely bifid, obtuse or acute ; 
follicles 21-3 in. long, 14-2 lin. thick, narrowly fusiform, tapering 
into a long slender beak, smooth, glabrous; seeds 3 in. long, scarcely 
1 lin, broad, linear-lanceolate, truncate at the coma-end, smooth, 
glabrous, dark brown. 
Katanart Reeion: Transvaal; Strydpoort, Makapans Berg, Rehmann, 
5410! Waterval River, near Lydenburg, Wilms, 930! 
Eastern Reeton: Delagoa Bay; Lourengo Marques, 100 ft., Schlechter, 
11669! 
This only differs from typical S. zambesiaca (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 
308, and N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 285) by its more glabrous 
stems, peduncles and pedicels, smaller leaves with shorter petioles, and shorter 
peduncles ; in all other characters the two are identical. 
3. 8. Alpini (Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 125, excl. syn. Secamone, 
Alpin. AXgypt. ed. 1640, 133 and 134 with fig.); a scrambling 
shrub; stem woody, glabrous or with a rust-coloured deciduous 
pubescence on the very young parts; leaves subcoriaceous ; petiole 
1-4 lin. long; blade 1~22 in. long, 1-1 in. broad, oblong, elliptic or 
lanceolate, usually obtuse, apiculate, occasionally acute, cuneately 
rounded or acute at the base, glabrous on both sides in the 
adult, stage, rusty-puberulous when very young; cymes paniculate, 
