Xysmalobiwm. | ASOLEPIADE. (Brown). 571 
CentRAL Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.; Sneeuwberg Range, 4100 ft.; Bolus, 
635! Victoria West Div.; Nieuw Veld, between Brak River and Uitvlugt, 
3000-4000 ft., Drége! Wodehouse Div.; northern slopes of the Andries Berg, 
5800 ft., Galpin, 2220! Philipstown Div.; at “ Washbanks River,” Burchell, 
2740! Colesberg Div. ; near Colesberg, Shaw ! 
Some other localities are mentioned by E. Meyer, but as this plant is mixed 
with Parapodiwm crispum in his herbariuwn, without properly localized labels, 
I have only quoted the locality of the specimens distributed by Drége under 
letter c, which certainly belong here. This plant is exceedingly like Parapodium 
crispum and Woodia mucronata in the dried state, and may easily be mistaken 
for either of them unless dissected. 
7. X. stockenstromense (Scott-Elliot in Journ. Bot. 1890, 364) ; 
plant 7-15 in. high ; stem erect, simple, stout, rather fleshy, puberu- 
lous along two broad lines; internodes short ; leaves subsessile or 
petiolate, 3-8 in. long, 3-15 in. broad, lanceolate-attenuate, acute, 
more or less undulated or flat, coriaceous, glabrous, scabrid on the 
margins ; umbels 2 to several, lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 
many-flowered, often crowded in a corymbose manner; peduncles 
1-21 in. long, stout, erect, puberulous down one side ; bracts 13-3 
lin. long, subulate; pedicels 3-8 in. long, puberulous ; sepals 2-3 
lin. long, 1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; corolla 5-lobed 
almost to the base, green, tipped with brown; lobes erect, 3-4 lin. 
long, 13-2 lin. broad, oblong, acute, glabrous outside, concave and 
glabrous in the lower part within, recurved and densely white- 
puberulous at the tips, with hairs not more than ,', lin. long ; corona- 
lobes arising at the base of the staminal column, about half as long 
as and standing free from it, reaching to the base of the anthers, in 
fresh flowers about 12 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, in dried ones 1 lin, 
long, 1-11 lin. broad, sessile, erect, contiguous, broadly deltoid-ovate, 
obtuse, fleshy, dorsally flattened, and in dried flowers with the margins 
somewhat reflexed, and indistinctly keeled on the back, having a 
very prominent subacute keel on the face, which is adnate to the 
base of the column, in fresh flowers the lobe is triangular in trans- 
verse section and half as thick as broad, glabrous; staminal column 
21-21 lin. long, much constricted under the quadrate anthers ; 
anther-appendages rounded, incumbent on the truncate pentagonal 
style-apex ; fruit not seen. Gomphocarpus  stockenstromensts, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 37. Asclepias stocker.- 
stromensis, Schlechter in Journ. Bot, 1896, 454. : 
Coast Recion: Stockenstrom Div.; on the scrubby slopes of Lushington 
Mountain, near Stockenstrom, Sculiy, 169! Stutterheim Div. ; Dohne Mountain, 
4500 ft., Bolus, 10204 ! 
Katanart ReGion: Basutoland; grassy slopes of ‘Mount-aux-Sources, 
7800 ft., Thode, 36! Transvaal; near Belfast, 6500 ft., Bolus, 12120! near 
Carolina, 5600 ft., Bolus! Donker Hoek, Schlechter, 4184 (ex Schlechter). 
Eastern ReGion: Griqualand East; near Kokstad, Haygarth in Herb. 
basce 4172! Natal; on the South Downs in Weenen County, 4000 ft., Wood, 
= 
8. X. ensifolium (Burch. ex Scott-Elliot in Journ. Bot. 1890, 
364) ; plant about 5 ft. high; stem stout, pubescent with spreading 
. 
