Woodia. | ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). 561 
covered with short spine-like processes. Seeds crowned with a tuft 
of hairs. 
Perennial herbs, probably with a tuberous rootstock ; stem usually solitary, 
erect, simple or rarely with one branch ; leaves opposite; umbels lateral at the 
nodes and terminal, sessile or pedunculate. 
Distris. Species 3, endemic. The Tropical African Woodia trilobata, 
Schlechter, does not belong to this genus, but is a Xysmalobium, 
Corona-lobes distinctly 3-toothed or -lobed : 
Peduncles 4-1} in. long, 2 to several times as long 
as the petioles; sepals as long as or exceeding 
the corolla... ese ees oes ine =. 
Peduncles 0-% in. long, rarely longer than the 
petioles ; sepals shorter than the corolla ... ... (2) mucronata, 
Corona-lobes subquadrate, with square shoulders and 
a thick incurved obtase middle point ... vee .. (3) singularis. 
' 1. W. verruculosa (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 
31); stem simple, 6-10 in. high, apparently slightly compressed, 
glabrous with the exception of a puberulous line down one side ; 
leaves in 4—7 pairs; petiole 1-33 lin. long; blade 14-2} in. long, 
1-12 in. broad, ovate, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, with 
a somewhat pungent apiculus, rounded to subcordate at the base, 
glabrous on both sides, slightly scabrid on the slightly thickened 
margin; umbels 2-4, erect, lateral and terminal, racemose or 
occasionally subcorymbose, 4—5-flowered; peduneles 3-1} in. long, 
puberulous down one side; bracts 2-3 lin. long, subulate, glabrous ; 
pedicels 7-10 lin. long, puberulous on one side ; sepals as long as or 
longer than the eorolla, suberect, about + in. long and 4 lin. broad, 
tapering from the base to the very acute apex, more or less revolute 
at the margins, glabrous or very thinly sprinkled with minute hairs ; 
corolla-lobes erect with more or less incurved tips, 2}—2 lin. long, 
1 lin. broad at the base, thence tapering to the acute apex, flattish, 
with revolute margins, glabrous on both sides, apparently purple- 
brown with green or pale margins on the back, perhaps greenish on 
the inner face ; corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal 
column and their margins ascending it as very narrow wings, 1+ lin. 
long, 3-lobed, erect; middle lobe laneeolate-subulate with a very 
prominent stout keel on the inner face at the lower part, slightly 
incurved and reaching to the top of the anthers; lateral lobes much 
shorter, linear, obtuse, very slightly falcate, quite erect on each side 
of the central keel, with their flat sides facing each other; staminal 
column 11 lin. long; anther-appendages broader than long, reniform, 
obtuse, very abruptly inflexed over the margin of the truncate 
style-apex ; follicle solitary, 3-33 in. long, } in. thick, stoutly fusi- 
form, acute, beset with several series of spine-like processes, 8_]1 
lin. long, glabrous. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 456. 
Hastern Reeion: Griqualand East ; mountains around Clydesdale, 2500 ft., 
an, 2173! Natal; hills near Camperdown, 2000-3000 ft., Wood, 4079! 
(1) verrucosa. 
2. W. mucronata (N. E. Br.); stems 1-2 to a plant, 6-10 in. 
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