548 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [ Astephanus. 
into a long beak, glabrous. Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 57,t.91 ; Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1896, 418. A. Zeyheri, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Mose. 
1852, xxv. pt. 2, 314; Schlechter, l.c., 418. 
Coast Region: Knysna Div.; on sand-hills near the west end of Groene 
Vallei, Burchell, 5662! Uitenhage Div.; near the mouth of the Coega River, 
Zeyher, 3406! Albany Div.; without precise locality, Atherstone, 10! Cooper, 
2721 ter. ! King Williamstown Div.; Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton! Bathurst Div, ; 
Kowie sand-hills, in the hush, MacOwan, 405! Port Alfred, Mrs. White, 74! 
CEentTrRAL ReGion: Somerset Div.; near Somerset Hast ? Bowker ! 
2. A. triflorus (R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soe. i. 54); stem slender, 
twining, minutely pubescent on the young parts, becoming glabrous ; 
leaves spreading, subcoriaceous, not very thick ; petiole about 1} lin. 
long; blade 4-8 lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate or linear- 
oblong, acute, rounded and often broadened or obscurely subhastate at 
the base, more or less revolute along the margins ; umbels subaxillary, 
2-5-flowered ; peduncle 1-6 lin. long, slender, minutely puberulous ; 
bracts minute, subulate ; pedicels 13-2 lin. long, minutely puberulous; 
sepals erect, about 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, thinly 
puberulous ; corolla campanulate, glabrous on. both sides, with the ex- 
ception of 5 small hairy patches near the base of the tube inside; tube 
12 lin, long, 5-angled ; lobes 11 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, oblong, slightly 
oblique at the obtuse apex, spreading ; staminal column % lin. long, 
filament part very short ; apex of the style beak-like, produced about > 
lin, beyond the anther-tips. Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 122; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 855; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 158; Dietr. Synop. Pl. iu. 909 ; 
Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 508; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 
418. A. pauciflorus, HE. Meyer, Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 224 ; Dietr. 
Synop. Pl. ii. 909; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 508; Schlechter in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxi, Beibl. 54,2; in Journ. Bot. 1895, 353, and 1896, 
418. Apoeynum triflorum, Linn. f. Suppl. 169 ; Thunb. Prodr. Fl. 
Cap.i. 47, in Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805), 512, and Fi. 
Cap. ed. 2, ii. 161, and ed. Schultes, 237; Lam. Encyel. Meth. 1. 
215; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1261. 
were Arrica: without locality, Oldenburgh, 393! Thwnberg ! Zeyher, . 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div.; near Modderfontein, between Lange 
Vallei and Kook Fontein, 400 ft., Drége, 6389! by the Olifants River, Schlechter, 
and Penther, 826 (ex Schlechter). Stellenbosch and Paarl Div. ; between Stellen- 
bosch and Paarl, Prior! and between Paarl Mountain and Paarde Berg, 500 ft., 
Drége (ex E. Meyer). 
Western Reaion: Little Namaqualand; Van Rhyns Dorp Div., on the 
Karee Bergen, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 8236! 
8. A. neglectus (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii, Beibl. 45, 
26); stem slender, twining, branching, minutely pubescent, becom- 
ing glabrous; leaves thick, coriaceous, spreading; petiole about 
1 lin. long; blade 1—1 in. long, usually 13-2 lin. broad, oblong, 
occasionally 3-6 lin. broad and elliptie, obtuse at both ends, apicu- 
late, thickened along the margin beneath, glabrous ; umbels sub- 
axillary, 3-7-flowered; peduncle 1-2 lin. long, slender, slightly 
