562 ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). [| Woodia. 
high, bifariously puberulous, leafy nearly to the base, with inter- 
nodes 1—1 in. long; leaves widely spreading or more or less upcurved, 
coriaceous ; petiole 1-1 in. long, channelled and puberulous above ; 
blade 13-3 in. long, 1-11 in. broad, varying from linear-lanceolate 
to elliptic or elliptic-oblong, and from nearly or quite flat to very 
much undulate and crisped, glabrous on both sides or slightly 
puberulous on the midrib beneath, often scabrous on the margins; 
umbels 3-8, pedunculate or sessile, lateral at the nodes, racemose, 
4-7-flowered ; peduncles 0-8 lin. long, puberulous; bracts 13-3 lin. 
long, linear-subulate, glabrous or nearly so; pedicels 43-6 lin. long, 
puberulous; sepals shorter than the. corolla, 2-22 lin. long, 3-1 lin. 
broad, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly puberulous ; corolla-lobes 
incurved-ascending, 21-32 lin. long, 11-2 lin. broad, ovate or oblong- 
ovate, acutely pointed owing to the revolute margins, concave, 
glabrous on both sides; corona-lobes arising at the base of the 
staminal column and shortly adnate to the very base of the corolla, 
1-11 lin. high, fleshy, trifid, concave and broadly cuneate at the 
base, with the margins ascending the staminal column as narrow 
wings, about 1 lin, broad across the ascending-spreading }—} lin. long 
lateral deltoid teeth, with the middle tooth 1—1+ lin. long, stout, 
keeled down the inner face or compressed, resembling a bird’s claw, 
incurved-erect, obtuse, attaining to about the level of the style-apex ; 
staminal column about 12 lin. long, pentagonal at the top, suddenly 
constricted under the small rectangular very prominent anther- 
wings ; anther-appendages subreniform, inflexed over the rim of the 
depressed-truncate style-apex ; caudicles broad and flat, attached to 
the inner apical angle of the subquadrate pollen-masses ; pollen- 
carrier surrounded by a hyaline margin; young follicles divergent, 
ovoid or ellipsoid, tapering to a stout stalk-like base and to an acute 
apex. glabrous, beset with several rows of soft subulate processes 
about 1 lin. long. Asclepias mucronata, Thunb. Prodr. 47, in Nov. 
Act. Acad. Petrop, xiv. (1805) 508; Fi. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 155, and ed. 
Schultes, 235 ; Poir. Encyel. Suppl. i. 479 ; Willd. Sp. Pi. i. 1268; 
Pers, Syn. Pl. i, 275; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 80; G. Don, Gen. 
Syst. iv. 142.  Pachyearpus marginatus, E. Meyer, Comm. 213 
partly. Xysmalobium marginatum, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 902. Gom- 
phocarpus marginatus, Decne in DO. Prodr, viii. 560, not of 
Schlechter. 
Var, &, trifurcata (N. E. Br.); like the type, but blade of leaf 13-4 in. 
long; sepals 24-4 lin, long, 3-14 lin. broad; corolla-lobes 3}-5 lin. long, 
13-24 lin. broad; corona-lobes 14-12 lin. high and about 1}-14 lin. broad 
across the natural spread of the lateral teeth, which are $—1 lin. long, linear or 
linear-oblong, suberect, with their margins ascending the staminal colump 11 
broader wings than in the type, the middle tooth 1-14 lin. long, more com- 
pressed and broader from the keel to the channelled back than in the type; 
staminal column 14-2 lin. long; follicles 84-43 in. long, about } in. thick, 
lanceolate-fusiform or subequally tapering at both ends, acute, with several 
longitudinal rows of spine-like processes 4-1 lin, long, glabrous ; seeds small, 
2-24 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, concave, with very incurved margins on one side, 
very convex on the other, minutely tuberculate on koth sides, dark brown. 
Woodia trifurcata, Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 1895, 337 in note, and var. 
