Woodia.]} ASCLEPIADEH (Brown), 563 
planifolia, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 39. W. marginata, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 9; Journ. Bot. 1896, 456, and Ann. 
Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 69. Gomphocarpus trifurcatus, Schlechter in 
Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 9. Pachycarpus marginatus, E. Meyer, Comm, 
213, partly. Xysmalobium lingueforme, Weale in Journ. Linn, Soc. xiti. 50, 
Sourn AFrRicaA: without locality, MacOwan ! Var. B, Drége, 4939! 
Coast Recion: Humansdorp Div.; across the Gamtoos River and near 
Kromme River, Thunberg / Uitenhage Div.; Addo, Drége, 2224! Albany Div. ; 
without precise locality, Drége! Hutton! Cooper, 2718! Queenstown Div. ; 
Hangklip Mountain, near Queenstown, Galpin, 1807! Var. 8: Queenstown 
Div. ; near Queenstown, 3800 ft., Bolus ! Stutterheim Div.; Dohne Mountain, 
3000 ft., Bolus, 10213! East London Div.; near East London, 100 ft., Wood in 
Herb. Galpin, 3385! Komgha Div.; hills by the Kei River, near Komgha, 
1800 ft., Flanagan, 899! Krook, 792 (ex Schlechter) . 
CENTRAL Reaion: Somerset Div.; near Somerset Hast, Miss Bowker ! 
KabaAHArI Recion: Var. 8: Transvaal; Little Olifants River, 5000 ft., 
Schlechter, 3799 (ex Schlechter). 
Eastern ReEGIon: Var. 8: Transkei; near Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Alice 
Pegler, 572! Tembuland; near Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 569! between Cala and 
Elliot, Bolus, 10186! near Umtata, Bolus, 10187 ! 
Although Thunberg described this remarkable plant more than 100 years 
ago, no one appears to have identified it until now, Thunberg’s type has flat 
leaves without undulations, but is otherwise identical with Miss Bowker’s and 
Hutton’s specimens. Var. trifwreata seems to be the eastern form of the plant, 
with larger flowers and much longer side teeth to the corona-lobes, Some 
specimens bear a remarkable resemblance to Parapodiwm erispum and Xysma- 
dt gomphocarpoides; all three may easily be mistaken for each other unless 
issected. 
3. W. singularis (N. E. Br.); stem solitary, about 1} ft. high, 
2 lin. thick at the base, simple, slightly bifariously puberulous on 
the upper part, glabrous below; leaves in about 16 pairs, ascending- 
spreading, thinly coriaceous, quite glabrous on both sides; petiole 
4-1 in. long; blade of the middle leaves 2~-2% in. long, {-1j in. 
broad, the upper and lower smaller, oblong or sublanceolate-oblong, 
acute or obtuse and apiculate, rounded or cuneate at the base, flat or 
undulated at the margins; umbels sessile, lateral at the nodes and 
terminal, 5—6-flowered ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, miautely puberulous ; 
sepals 1 in. long, 2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, very acute, glabrous ; 
corolla-lobes ineurved-ascending or spreading?, about 3} lin. long, 
13-14 lin. broad, oblong, shortly subeuspidate-acute, concave, with 
revolute margins, glabrous on both sides, greenish?, tinted with 
purple-brown on the back; corona-lobes arising at the base of the 
staminal column, with their margins ascending it as narrow wings, 
spreading, transversely oblong or subquadrate with square shoulders 
and about 1 lin. long at the concave basal part, produced at the 
middle for about % lin. into a stout fleshy linear-oblong obtuse 
point, incurved at the apex and keeled down the inner face, rising 
to about the base of the anthers; staminal column 1} lin. high, 
abruptly much eonstrieted under the very broad transverse anthers, 
Whose broad triangular-ovate appendages are inflexed over the 
margin of the broad 5-angled style-apex. 
Eastern Recion: Swaziland; ridge between Bremersdorp and Mac Nab’s 
Store, 2500 ft., Burtt Davy, 2933 ! 
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