Xysmalobium. | ASCLEPIADEH (Brown). 573 
scarcely half as long as the staminal column, except when pressed 
out of position by drying, shortly spreading from its base, then 
erect, broadiy cuneate, obovate or transverse, subtruncate or broadly 
rounded at the apex, fleshy, flat on the back, thickened into a 
triangular mass or stout keel on the inner face, dull white, tinged 
with purple externally (Rand); staminal column 23-3 lin. long ; 
anthers subquadrate, with their wings produced into a truncate tooth 
at or near the base; anther-appendages elliptic or suborbicular, 
incumbent upon the stout convex or cushion-like style-apex ; follicle 
usually solitary, 3-5 in. long, 13-14 in. thick, obliquely ovoid, 
usually very obtuse, sometimes somewhat tapering to a stout obtuse 
point, pubescent and thickly covered with long filiform pubescent 
processes; seeds 2} lin. long, 14 lin. broad, convex on one side, 
flattish with thick raised margins on the other, covered with raised 
irregular lines and points on both sides, dark brown. Ait. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2, ii. 79; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 1, 226; Dietr. Syn. 
Pl, ii. 902 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 850; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 89 ; 
E. Meyer, Comm. 215; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 146 ; Scott-Elliot in 
Journ. Bot. 1890, 364; Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 338, not of 
Deene. X. lapathifolium, Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 519; K. 
Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 232, 7. 67, A-D, 
very inaccurate. Asclepias undulata, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, i. 214; 
Mant. ii. 346 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 304; Thunb. Prodr. 47 ; 
in Nov. Act. Acad, Petrop. xiv. (1805), 508; Fi. Cap. ed. 2, 
155, and ed. Schultes, 234; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1263; Lam. Eneyel. 
Meth. i. 280; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 275; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxi. Beibl. 54, 9; Journ. Bot. 1896, 451, and Ann. Naturhist. 
Hofmus. Wien, xv. 68, not of Jacquin. A. ciliata, Murray, Syst. 
Veg. ed. 15, 271. Gomphocarpus arborescens, Sprenger in Bull. Soc. 
Tose, Hort. ser. 2, v. 70, fig. 7, and Wien. Ill. Gart. Zeit. 1889, 
494, fig. 78, not of R. Br. G. undulatus, Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 10, not of Turcz—Apocynum africanum, 
lapathi folio, Commelin, Hort. Med. Amsteledam. 16, t. 16. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Linneus! Masson ! 
Coast Recron: Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, 1000-2000 ft., Drége (ex 
E. Meyer). Cape Div.; hills at Paradise, near Newlands, Thunberg ! Worcester 
Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 2000-3000 ft., Drége! in the Gondinie, below 1000 ft., 
Drége (ex E. Meyer); Swellendam Div.; at the foot of Tradouw Berg, Bowie ! 
George Div. ? Kammanassie, Thunberg! Alexandr.a Div.; Zuurberg Range, 
Burke! Albany Div.; moist places near Bothas Hill and near Grahamstown, 
2200 ft., MacOwan, 404! Glenfilling, 800 ft., Drege (ex E. Meyer), and without 
precise locality, Bowker ! Queenstown Div. ; Bongolo Poort, near Queenstown, 
3550 ft., Galpin, 1916! Shiloh, Baur, 947! 
Centrat Recton: Richmond Div. ; Uitvlugt, vicinity of Steel Kloof near 
Richmond, 4000-5000 ft., Drége (ex E. Meyer), near Richmond, 4500 ft., 
Bolus, 2054! Victoria West Div.; Nieuw Veld, between Brak River and 
Uilvingt, 3000-4000 ft., Drége! Somerset Div. ; near Somerset East, MacOwan, 
404! without precise locality, Cooper, 526! : 
Katauart Reaion: Orange River Colony ; near Seven Fonteins, Burke, 213! 
Transvaal; Springbok Flats, Burtt Davy, 2142! Pretoria, Burtt Davy, 1079! 
Leendertz, 410! Modderfontein, Conrath, 999 ! Bezuidenhouts Valley, Johannes. 
burg, Rand, 1120! Standerton, Burtt Davy, 3168! 
