560 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [| Parapodium. 
6-8 in. high; stem simple or branching at the base only, rather 
stout, pubescent along two broad lines; leaves rather close together, 
incurved-ascending, 21-31 in. long, 23—5 lin. broad, linear-laneeo- 
late, acute, narrowed into the 11-3 lin. loig petiole at the base, 
coriaceous, very much crisped or undulate along the margins, 
glabrous on both sides; umbels several, subaxillary, 3—4-flowered; 
peduncles 1-2 lin. long, moderately stout ; bracts subulate, 14-2 lin. 
long; pedicels 3-4 lin. long; sepals 3-4 lin. long, % lin. broad, 
gradually tapering from base to apex, glabrous; corolla 4—6 lin. in 
diam., 5-lobed to rather more than half-way down, glabrous on both 
sides ; tube about 12 lin. long, globose-campanulate ; lobes 2-2} lin. 
long, 13-12 lin. broad at the base, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 
concave and somewhat incurved in their lower part, recurved at the 
apex; corona-lobes adnate to the corolla-tube for half their length, 
and in that part confluent, forming a sort of disk lining the base of 
the corolla-tube, apical part free, erect and rising slightly above the 
sinuses of the corolla, 1-2 lin. long, 14-1} lin. broad, transversely 
oblong, truncate, in dried flowers rather thin, flat or with the margins 
ineurved; staminal column 11 lin. long, stout, conical ; anther- 
appendages small, oblong, acute, loosely inflexed over and covering 
the small depressed-truncate style-apex ; follicles not seen. 
Coast Rxeron: Queenstown Div.; on grassy hills, near Shiloh, 4000 ft., 
Drége ! ‘ 
CENTRAL Region : Somerset Div., foot of Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 13843! 
and without precise locality, Cooper, 531! Cradock Div.; near Cradock, Cooper, 
1285! Graaff Reinet Div.; on the Sneeuwberg Range near Graaff Reinet, 
4100 ft., Bolus! 
This remarkable plant bears such a close resemblance to Xysmalobium gom- 
phocarpoides, Dietr., and Woodia mucronata, N. E. Br., as to be readily 
mistaken for either of them. It was distributed by Drége as Pachycarpus 
gomphocarpoides under letter ‘‘ a.” 
XI. WOODIA, Schlechter. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base; lobes in- 
curved-ascending or spreading ?, concave or flattish, with revolute 
margins. Corona-lobes 5, arising from the base of the staminal 
- column opposite the anthers, dorsally flattened, concave at the basal 
part, with the incurved margins ascending the staminal column as 
narrow wings, deeply trifid, or quadrate with square shoulders and 
an incurved middle tooth, with one stout keel on or decurrent from 
the inner face of the middle tooth, Stamens arising from the base 
of the corolla, their filaments connate in a tube around the ovary ; 
anthers terminated by a membranous appendaze. Pollen-masses 
solitary in each anther-cell, nearly as broad as long, subquadrate or 
rectangular, pendulous, attached in pairs to the pollen-earriers by 
rather stout caudicles. Style depressed-truncate or truncate at the 
apex, shorter than the anther-appendages. ollicles where known, 
