574 ASCLEPIADEH (Brown). [ Xysmalobium. 
HAstERN Reoion; Trauskei; near Colossa, Krook, 810 (ex Schlechter), 
around Kentani, Miss Pegler, 691! Natal; near Estcourt, 3800 ft., Wood, 3474! 
near Bothas, 2000 ft., Wood, 4809! and without precise locality, Cooper, 27451 
Swaziland, Burtt Davy, 2931! 2926! Bolus, 12121! 
10. X. confusum (Scott-Elliot in Journ. Bot. 1890, 363); stem 
2-3 ft. high, stout, + in. thick in the specimens seen, pubescent 
along two broad lines ; leaves not very spreading, coriaceous ; petiole 
1-2 lin. long, stout; blade 2-4 in. long, 1-23 in. broad, elliptie, 
elliptic-oblong or oblong, obtuse, shortly and abruptly cuspidate- 
mucronate, cuneately or very obtusely rounded at the base, very 
scabrid along the margins, glabrous on both sides ; umbels numerous, 
many-flowered, sessile, the upper more or less crowded; bracts 
3-31 lin. long, subulate; pedicels 6-8 lin. long, minutely pubescent ; 
sepals 3—4 lin. long, 2 lin. broad at the ovate-oblong bise, above 
which the margins are incurved, forming a channelled subulate 
point, spreading, glabrous, sparingly ciliolate ; corolla 5-lobed almost 
to the base, quite glabrous; lobes suberect, 4—5 lin. long, 21—2% lin. 
broad, oblong-ovate, obtuse, with a minute oblique apical notch ; 
margins reflexed or revolute; corona-lobes arising at the base of the 
staminal column and about half as long as it, fleshy, scarcely 1 lin. 
long, about 14 lin. broad, broadly cuneate, truncate, with a minute 
quadrate lobule at the base and a fleshy prominent keel at the top 
on the inner face, triangular when seen from above and as if formed 
from the inflexed adnate apex; staminal column 1+ lin. long, con- 
stricted under the anthers ; anther-appendages subreniform, obtuse, in- 
flexed upon the outer part of the broad style-apex, the centre of which 
is produced slightly beyond them ina very short stout pentagonal 
truncate column; follicles not seen. Gomphocarpus rectinervis, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 38. Aselepias confusa, 
ee in Journ, Bot. 1896, 454, and A. rectinervis, Schlechter, l.c. 
456. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Highlands of Natal, Gerrard, 1282! Inanda, 
Wood, 1163! and without precise locality, Mrs. K. Sawnders ! Swaziland; near 
Embabaan (Mbabane), 4700 ft., Bolws, 12123 ! 
Karanart Recion; Transvaal ; Houtbosh Berg, 6400 ft., Schlechter, 4429. 
11. X. orbiculare (D. Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 902) ; stem 1-3 ft. high, 
stout, 2-5 lin. thick, simple or rarely branching towards the base, 
puberulous along two rather broad lines, or rarely glabrous; 
leaves rather closely placed, much longer than the internodes, 
spreading, coriaceous, glabrous; petiole 1-3 lin. long, stout; blade 
11-3 in, long, 3-21 in. broad, oblong, broadly ovate, elliptic or 
lanceolate, obtuse and apiculate or acute, rounded or cuneate-acute 
(rarely cordate) at the base; margins very scabrid; umbels 
numerous, subaxillary, racemosely arranged along. the upper part of 
the stem, many-flowered; peduncle 3—1 in. long, stout, erect, pu- 
bescent along the inner side; pedicels 1—1 in. long, puberulous along 
the inner side ; sepals 14-2 lin. long, % lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, 
nearly glabrous; corolla 5-lobed almost to the base, reflexed, 
