Xysmalobium. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 567 
excavated ; follicle solitary, erect, 3-31 in. long, about 5 lin. thick, 
fusiform, tapering into a beak, smooth, thinly and minutely puberu- 
lous ; seeds 21 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, broadly ovate, flat with a 
broad, plicately wrinkled margin, and minutely papillate on the disk. 
Lagarinthus involucratus, E. Meyer, Comm. 203. Gomphocarpus 
involucratus, D. Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 900; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xviii. Beibl. 45, 8, and 19, xx. Beibl. 51, 32. Asclepias chloro- 
glossa, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 454. 
Coast ReGion: Uniondale Div.; between Welgelegen and Onzer, 2000 ft., 
Drége ! Albany Div. ; Heights of Albany, Bowie! near Grahamstown, Bolton ! 
MacOwan, 654! 1217! Galpin, 249 (ex Schlechter), and without precise 
locality, Zeyher ! Cooper,2736! Bowker! Bathurst Div. ; between Riet Fontein 
and the source of the Kasuga River, Burchell, 4147! Komgha Div.; near 
Komgha, 1900 ft., Flanagan, 390 (ex Schlechter). Fort Beautort Div.; on 
the Winter Bergen, Mrs. Barber, 83! Queenstown Div. ; mountain sides near 
- Queenstown, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1656! Stockenstrom Div.; on the Kat Berg, 
4000-5000 ft., Drége (ex E. Meyer). British Kaffraria, Cooper, 472! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Krelis Country, Bowker! and without precise 
locality, Mrs. Barber, 36! Hallack! Kentani Div. ; hill-sides, Miss Pegler, 118 ! 
Tembuland ; Bazeia, Baur, 383! Griqualand East; Malowe Mountain, 4000 ft., 
Tyson, 3114! Mount Currie, 5000 ft., Tyson in MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. 
Austr.-Afr., £46 ! Pondoland ; near the mouth of St. Johns River, Bolws, 10191 ! 
Natal; Inanda, Wood, 364! and in Natal Herb. 429! Mooi River, 4000 ft., 
Wood, 4063! Shafton, Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 403! near the mouth of the 
Umzimkulu River, Drége (ex E. Meyer), Tugela, Gerrard, 1801! and without 
precise locality, Sanderson, 373! Peddie! 
According to Mrs. Barber, the Kaflirs eat the tubers at times when food is 
scarce, 
2. X. Zeyheri (N. E. Br.); plant about 5-6 in. high, with 1 
simple erect stem to a tuber, pubescent all round ; leaves numerous, 
opposite, 3-43 in. long, 3-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, erect or ascend- 
ing, revolute along the margins, glabrous above, more or less pubes- 
cent on the midrib beneath; umbels 3-4 to a stem, subaxillary and 
terminal, pedunculate, hemispherical, about 20-flowered, involucrate 
with several linear-subulate spreading or reflexed bracts about 2 lin. 
long ; peduncles 6-7 lin. long, pubescent; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, 
pubescent; sepals 12 lin, long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubes- 
cent, reflexed ; corolla entirely reflexed, pubescent outside, glabrous 
within; lobes 2 lin. long, rather more than 1 lin. broad, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute ; corona-lobes arising 2 lin. above the base of the 
staminal column and reaching to about $ of its length, $ lin. long, 
oblong-ovoid, acute, thick and fleshy, erect, laterally attached at the 
base to the staminal column by a short distinct stalk, and standing 
free from the anthers; staminal column 12 lin. long; filament part 
tapering upwards, constricted under the anthers; anthers oblong 
with nearly parallel sides, slightly broadest at the base, erect, their 
appendages very broadly ovate, acute, inflexed over the apex of the 
style, and their wings broadest at the base, gradually narrowed 
upwards; style slightly excavated at the pentagonal, truncate apex ; 
follicles and seeds not seen. Lagarinthus involucratus, b, in Herb. 
Drige, 
