Xysmalobium.] —_ ascumprapum (Brown). 575 
glabrous on both sides, chocolate-coloured with a green blotch at the 
base of each lobe ; lobes 3-31 lin. long, 1} lin, broad, oblong, acute ; 
corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column and slightly 
‘shorter than it, 1-14 lin. long, 1+ lin. broad, erect, fleshy, dorsally 
flattened, suborbicular, obtuse and slightly ineurved at the apex, 
obtusely keeled down the face, glabrous, whitish ; staminal column 
12 in. long, stout; anther-appendages very broad and short, rounded, 
inflexed over the raised rim of the truncate apex of the style; pollen- 
masses subfalcate-oblong, obtusely pointed, scarcely 4 lin, long, 
attached to the black pollen-carrier by stout caudicles ; follicles 
33-4 in. long, about 1 in. thick, lanceolate-fusiform, obtusely 
pointed, sparingly echinate with stout erect acute processes about 
1 lin. long, glabrous; seeds (immature) oblong-ovate, minutely 
tuberculate on both sides. Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 519. X. 
padifolium, Scott-Elliot in Journ. Bot. 1890, 363; Benth. ex 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 35, in note. Pachycarpus 
orbicularis, E. Meyer, Comm. 212. Gomphocarpus padifolius, 
Baker in Saunders, Ref. Bot. t. 254; Sehlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xviii, Beibl. 45, 9, and xx. Beihl. 51, 35, in note. G. orbicularis, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 34. Asclepias orbicularis, 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 454, and Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. 
Wien, xv. 68. 
Coast Reston: Bast London Div.; near East London, Wood in Herb. 
Galpin, 83151! Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, Krook, 820 (ex Schlechter). 
Eastern Recion: Transkei (Krielis Country), Bowker, 215! around 
Kentani, Miss Pegler, 653! 887! Tembuland; on hills near Bazeia, 2000 ft., 
Baur, 819! Pondoland; between St. Johns River and Waterfall Bluff, Drege, 
4980! Natal; near Verulam, Wood, 912! at Umhlongwe, Wood, 3013! Inanda, 
Wood, 1254! and without precise locality, @ueinzius! Gerrard, 1284! Zululand ; 
near Umgoya, Wood, 747! 3924! 5677! 
12. X. acerateoides (N. E. Br.); stem 2-23 ft. high (Galpin), 
only pieces 6-9 in. long seen, }—} in. thick, subhispid-pubescent ; 
leaves spreading ; petiole 2-7 lin. long; blade 12-4 in. long, 3-2 in. 
broad, lanceolate, ovate or oblong-ovate, acute or the upper acumi- 
nate, rounded to subcordate at the base, flat or revolute at the 
scabrid-ciliate margins, roughly pubescent on both sides; umbels 
varying from 2 in a terminal pair to 6, lateral and terminal, 
occasionally solitary, 2-11 in. in diam., 12—30-flowered ; peduncles 
4-121 in. long, scabrid-pubescent; bracts 13 lin, long, subulate ; 
pedicels 3-5 lin. long, pubescent ; sepals 14-2 lin. long, } lin. broad, 
lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent; corolla-lobes erect, 13-23 lin, 
long, 3-1 lin, broad, oblong, obtuse or subacute, with a longitudinally 
divided convexity at the middle of the inner face and correspond- 
ingly concave on the back, glabrous on both sides, greenish-yellow ; 
corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column and shorter 
than or subequalling it, erect, slightly incurved, $-1 lin. long, fleshy, 
solid, in fresh flowers (seen preserved in fluid) } lin. broad and 
nearly as thick, subcylindric, scarcely flattened on the inner face, 
very obtuse, with a very faint indication of lateral compression at 
