570 ASCLEP'(ADE (Brown). [ Xysmalobiwm. 
apiculus, flat, sometimes with an indication of a slight keel down the 
inner face, apparently ochreous or orange; staminal column 14-14 
lin. long, constricted below the middle, with the upper part broadly 
obconic and the basal part shortly conical, pentagonal at the top ; 
anther-appendages much broader than long, subreniform, obtuse, 
inflexed over the rim of the depressed-truncate style-apex ; anther- 
wings 1 lin. long, very small and prominent, broadest and angular 
at the base; caudicles nearly as broad as the minute pollen-carrier is 
long, attached to the erect, obliquely tapering apex of the relatively 
very large oblong pollen-masses, which are 8 lin. long and quite 
straight along the inner margin. Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 339. 
Asclepias anisophylla, Conrath § Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviil. 
31, j 
Katanari Recion : Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke ! Zeyher, 1165 partly! 
Irene, Conrath, 984! open veld, south of Johannesburg, Rand, 1053! Witkleifon- 
tein, Burtt Davy, 3134! 
The corona-lobes are very similar in outline to those of Schizoglossum 
eustegioides, 
6. X. gomphocarpoides (Dietr. Syn: Pl. ii. 902) ; stem 1-1} ft. or 
more high, ereet, simple, moderately stout, glabrous or slightly 
pubescent along two broad lines; internodes short; leaves 
4-54 in. long, 3-7 lin. broad, ascending, shortly petiolate, linear- 
lanceolate, gradually tapering to an acute point, cuneate or sub- 
cordate at the base, undulated, scabrid on the margins, glabrous ; 
umbels several, racemose along the stem, subaxillary, 4—8-flowered ; 
peduncles 1-4 lin, long, stout, puberulous along one side; pedicels 
4-6 lin. long, puberulous along one side; sepals 2 lin. long, % lin. 
broad, lanceolate, acute, thinly puberulous ; corolla 5-lobed almost 
to the base, glabrous on both sides; lobes somewhat reflexed, 3} lin. 
long, 1} lin. broad, oblong, acute, greenish in the dried state ; corona- 
lobes arising from the base of the staminal column and about equalling 
it in length, erect, 11-12 lin. long, auriculately dilated and about 1 
lin. broad at the base, contracted above, linear-oblong, obtuse, very 
fleshy, very convex on the back, keeled down the inner face; 
staminal column 13-2 lin. long; anthers quadrate ; anther-appen- 
dages rounded, incumbent upon the depressed-truncate pentagonal 
style-apex ; follicle solitary (always ?), 21-3 in. long, 3-1 in. thick, 
obliquely ovoid or ovoid-lanceolate, nearly straight along the side 
turned to the stem, very bulging on the other, laxly covered with 
soft bristle-like processes, glabrous; seeds 23-3 lin. long, ovate, 
concave on one face, convex on the other, ragulose-tubercu- 
late, dark-brown. Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 519. Pachycarpus 
gomphoearpoides, EF. Meyer, Comm. 213. Gomphoearpus longt- 
folius, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 9, in note, not of 
Spreng. Asclepias gomphocarpoides, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx1. 
Beibl. 54, 7, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 456, 
: “oy ReEGIon; Oudtshoorn Div.; near the Cango Caves, 2100 ft., Bolus, 
2133. , 
