Secamone. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 545 
pyramidal or corymbose, terminal or axillary, rusty-puberulous or 
subglabrous on all parts exeept the corolla; peduncles 1—% in. long ; 
bracts > lin. long, ovate, acute ; pedicels 11-21 lin. long; sepals 
z lin. long, ovate, obtuse or subacute; corolla 13-2 lin. in diam., 
glabrous outside, pubescent with white hairs inside; tube scarcely 
z lin. long ; lobes spreading, 2—% lin. long, } lin. broad, oblong-ovate, 
subacute or minutely and obliquely emarginate at the apex; corona- 
lobes 4} lin. long, subulate, erect or ineurved over the tips of the 
anthers ; apex of the style about equalling or slightly exceeding the 
anther-tips, stout, truncate; follicles widely divergent or slightly 
reflexed, 3-4 in. long, about 1} lin. thick, terete, tapering to a 
rather long point, glabrous ; seeds } in. long, % lin. broad, linear- 
lanceolate, channelled down the face, very convex on the back, 
blackish-brown, glabrous, erowned with a tuft of long white hairs. 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 837 ; Dietr. Synop. Pl. ii. 884; N. FE. Br. in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 279. 8S. Thunbergii, H. Meyer, Comm. 
Pl. Afr. Austr, 224; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 1, 221; Deene in 
DC. Prodr, viii. 501; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 
2 and 15, xx. Beibl. 51, 12, and xxi. Beibl. 54, 1; Journ. Bot. 
1897, 290, and in Ann. Nat. Hist, Hofmus. Wien, xviii. 398; K. 
Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 263. 8. xgyptica, G. 
Don, Gen. Syst.iv. 160, not of Ait. Periploca Secamone, Linn. Mant. 
li, 216, excluding both synonyms; Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. 47; 
Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 153, and ed, Schultes, 238; Poir. Eneycl. Meth. 
v. 189; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1249 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 301. 
Sovurn Arnica: without locality, Herb. Linneus ! Masson! 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Gift Berg, 1500-2000 ft., Drége! Paarl 
Div; Paarl Mountains, Drége! Prior (Alexander)! Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh 
Waterfall, Ecklon J¢ Zeyher ! Mitchells Pass, 800 ft., Bolus, 5203! Worcester 
Div.; Hex River Mountains, Rehmann, 2702! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, 
Harvey! near Cape Town? Burchell, 8406! George Div.; Outeniqua woods, 
Thunberg! Montagu Pass, Rehmann, 285! Knysna Div.; in the forest at 
Knysna, Burchell, 5896! Plettenberg Bay, Bowie! near Loeri River, Penther, 
1926 (ex Schlechter). Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 603 | near 
Uitenhage, Burchell, 4237! Prior! Port Elizabeth Div. ; on sand-hill along the 
coast, H. 8. C. 4. Herb.,197! Albany Div.; in woods near Grahamstown, 
2000 ft., MacOwan, 293! Zeyher, 603! Galpin, 354 (ex Schlechter), Schénland, 
648! Glenfilling, Drége, 3474! Komgha Div. ; in woods near Komgha, 2000 ft., 
Flanagan, 377 (ex Schlechter). Bathurst Div.; near Barville Park, Burchell, 
4136! Stockenstrom Div.; Wellsdale Mountain, Scully, 337! Queenstown 
Div.; Finchams Nek, 8900 ft., Galpin, 1891! 
CeyTrat REGION: Somerset Div. ; on the Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3131! 
KaLaHaRI- RE@IoN: Transyaal; near Botsabelo, 4900 ft., Schlechter (ex 
Schlechter) ; Rietfontein, Zoutpansberg Range, Leendertz, 875! 
Eastern Reaion: Transkei; near Kentani, diss Alice Pegler, 662 ! Natal; 
near Durban, Wood, 138! 1415! Wilns, 2230! Peddie! Shepstone, 100 it., 
Rogers, 599! Inanda, Wood, 1415! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
The plant figured and described by Alpino has been erroneously referred to 
this species by Schultes, and has been misunderstood by all authors, Alpino’s 
figure is undoubtedly a representation of Leptadenia heterophylla, Decne, a 
well-known inhabitant of Upper Egypt and the Nile Region, whilst the descrip- 
tion of 8. Alpini given by Schultes, so unmistakably refers to this South African 
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