— ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [Xysmalobiwm. 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, Ecklon Y Zeyher, 
348! Alexandria Div. ; Zuurberg Range, at Addo and near Geelhout Boom, 
1000-2000 ft., Drége! 
In all characters, except those of the corona and staminal column, this is quite 
like X. involucratum, Decne, but in that species the filament part of the staminal 
column is shorter than in this and cylindric, not tapering upwards, the anthers 
are distinctly rhomboid, their wings being broadest and most projecting at the 
middle, at about the level of the apex of the corona-lobes, whilst in X. Zeyhert 
they are slightly broadest at the base nearly at the level of the base of the corona- 
lobes, and do not project at all at the middle ; the corona-lobes are also sessile in 
X. involucratum and distinctly stalked in X. Zeyheri. 
3. X. carinatum (N. E. Br.); plant 9-10 in. high, branching at 
the base only ; stems erect from a slightly decumbent base, slender, 
glabrous with 2 pubescent lines, leafy; leaves numerous, erect, 
2-31 in, long, 3-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, revolute along the 
margins, glabrous ; umbels several to a stem, subaxillary, shortly 
pedunculate or subsessile, subglobose, 7-10-flowered; peduncles 
1-23 lin. long; bracts about 14 lin. long, subulate or filiform; 
pedicels 2-21 lin. long, minutely puberulous with curved hairs; 
sepals 1-1+ lin. long, } lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, minutely 
puberulous, spreading or perhaps slightly recurved; corolla about 
2% lin. in diam., bell-shaped, 5-lobed almost to the base ; lobes erect 
or but slightly spreading, 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, 
obtusely pointed, slightly concave at the base, recurved and slightly 
thickened at the apex, and somewhat reflexed along the margins, 
glabrous outside, very minutely velvety at the thiekened- apex 
within ; corona-lobes arising at the very base of the staminal column 
and incurved over it, 14 lin. long, linear-faleate when viewed side- 
ways, fleshy, flat on the face, very convex on the back; staminal 
column about 1 lin, long; filament part above the insertion of the 
corona-lobes about + lin. long; anthers quadrate, erect, their appen- 
dages broadly ovate, acute, erect, slightly inflexed at the tips over 
the rim of the style-apex; their wings broadened into a triangular 
projection a little below the middle ; pollen-masses obliquely deltoid, 
shaped something like’ a ham of baeon; style-apex pentagonal, 
excavated, not exceeding the anther-appendages; follicles not seen. 
Krebsia carinata, Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 1895, 269, and Ann. 
Naturhist. Hofm. Wien, xv. 67. 
Eastern Reeion: Griqualand Kast; in wet grassy places near Kokstad, 
5100 ft., Tyson, 1439! near the River Umzimhlava, 4500 ft., Schlechter, 6548, 
and Krook, 794b, 806 (ex Schlechter). 
This plant is so exactly like Krebsia stenoglossa and Schizoglossum peri- 
glossoides in the dried state, that it is scarcely possible to distinguish them unless 
their flowers are dissected, when the great differences of their corona-lobes, 
staminal column and pollen-masses are convincing enough of their distinctness. 
Probably when alive they are more easily distinguished. 
4. X. winterbergense (N. E. Br.) ; plant branching into several 
stems at the base; stems 4—5 in. long and bearing 4-7 pairs of 
leaves in the examples seen, bifariously pubescent ; leaves ascending, 
