546 ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). [Secamone. 
plant, that it evidently was made entirely from it. The var. retusa (E. Meyer, 
l.c.), founded upon Drége, 3474, with obtuse or slightly retuse leaves, is a 
common form not worth varietal distinction. The follicles distributed with Miss 
Pegler’s 662 are much longer (5-6 in. long) and more slender (1 lin, thick) 
than in any other specimen seen, but I find no difference in the flowers. 
4. §. frutescens (Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 501); stems woody, 
often twining ; leaves glabrous, rather thin ; petiole 3-12 lin. long; 
blade 4-14 in. long, 2-2 lin. broad, linear, acute or obtuse, rounded 
or cuneate at the base; cymes numerous, small, 3-5 lin. in diam., 
5-12-flowered, subsessile, or on peduncles rarely more than 1 lin. 
long, glabrous in all parts; bracts minute, ovate ; pedicels 1-2 lin. 
long, slender ; sepals about 3 lin. long and broad, suborbicular, very 
obtuse, minutely ciliate ; corolla rotate, about 13 lin. in diam., quite 
glabrous; lobes longer than the united part, about +} lin. long, oblong, 
obtuse; corona-lobes not quite half as long as the staminal column, 
erect from its base, wing-like, subquadrate, truncate at the apex ; 
style-apex large, cushion-like, slightly exceeding the anthers; 
follicles 14-12 in. long, about 11 lin. thick, terete, tapering into a 
long slender beak. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 2, 
xx, Beibl. 51, 12, xxi, Beibl. 54, 1, and Journ. Bot. 1897, 290. 
Astephanus frutescens, E. Meyer, Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 223; D. 
Age Syn. Pl. ii. 909. A. fruticosus, Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1. 
153. : 
Coast Recon: Uitenhage Div.; by the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 538! 
3808! Drége, 2230! near Uitenhage, Prior! among shrubs near Van Stadens 
River, Bolus, 2398! Bathurst Div. ; Trapps Valley, Miss Daly, 647! Alexandria 
Div. ; on the Zuurberg Range, near the Bontjes River, 2000 ft., Drége ! Albany 
Div. ; near Grahamstown, Galpin, 2924! Fort Beaufort Div.; margins of a 
wood near the Kat River, 2500-3000 ft., Drége ! and without precise locality, 
Cooper, 535! Hast London Div.; near East London, 100 ft., Wood in Herb. 
Galpin, 3144! 3370! Komgha Div.; in woods near Komgha, 1800 ft., Flanagan, 
18 (ex Schlechter). British Kaffraria, Cooper, 131! 
CentRaL Reaion: Somerset Div.; on the Bosch Berg, near Somerset Hast, 
Burchell, 3119! southern side of the Boseh Berg, Burchell, 3169! near 
Somerset East, Bowker / 
Kazawari Reeron: Transvaal ; mountains near T'sacoma, 3600 ft., Schlechter, 
4540 (ex Schlechter). 
EAstERN Recion: Transkei; Kentani District, Miss Alice Pegler, 845! 
Natal; Inanda, Wood, 638! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 183! 
Cooper, 1158! Delagoa Bay region ; Macocololo, 100 ft., Schlechter, 12059 ! 
5. 8. delagoensis (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 35, fig. 3); 
stem climbing, mueh branched, glabrous; leaves thinly coriaceous, 
glabrous ; petiole 1-2 lin. long; blade 2-11 in. long, 3-23 lin. 
(13-4 lin. ex Schlechter) broad, linear, linear-laneeolate or linear- 
oblong, obtuse or acute at the apex, cuneate or rounded at the base ; 
flowers usually in 2-flowered cymes, occasionally solitary, sub- 
axillary or terminal; peduncle 0-2 lin. long, glabrous; bracts 
minute ; pedicels 11-2: lin. long, glabrous; sepals about } lin. long 
and broad, suborbicular, very obtuse, glabrous ; corolla campanulate, 
quite glabrous, apparently white or yellowish ; tube rather more 
