Xysmalobium.] ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 577 
carpus ochroleucus, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 30. 
Asclepias ochroleuca, Schlechter in. Journ. Bot. 1896, 455, and 
Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 68. 
EasTeRw Reaion: Griqualand East; Insizwa Mountains, Krook, 808, 814 
(ex Schlechter). Natal; Fields Hill, near Pinetown, and on a hill near Gillets, 
Wood, 3398! and in Herb. Natal, 682! hill near Krantz Kloof, Wood, 5002! 
between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 2136! and without precise 
locality, Gerrard, 1289! Sanderson, 179! Mrs. K. Saunders ! 
Scott-Elliot quotes 3 specimens for X. Gerrardi, viz. :—Mrs. K. Saunders’ and 
Gerrard, 1289 and 1951; of these, Mrs. K. Saunders’ specimen and Gerrard 
1289 agree with the original description as to the corona-lobes (the other 
characters in the description will equally answer for 3 other species), whilst 
Gerrard 1951 does not, and differs entirely in its conspicuously reflexed corolla 
as well as in the corona-lobes. I therefore take the above two specimens as the 
type of X. Gerrardi, and refer Gerrard 1951 to X. asperum. In the Journal of 
Botany, 1896, 454, Schlechter enumerates X. Gerrardi, X.: parvifiorum, and 
Gomphocarpus parviflorus, Schlechter (three entirely different plants), as 
synonyms under the new name of Asclepias sulphurea, without deseription or 
any specimen quoted ; he seems to have entirely misunderstood both X. Gerrards 
and X. parviflorwm, and has redescribed both under new names, 
14. X. parviflorum (Harv. ex Scott-Elliot in Journ. Bot. 1890, ° 
363); plant 3-10 in. high, branching at the base; branches erect 
or decumbent at the base, pubescent, chiefly along 2 broad lines ; 
leaves in 3-7 pairs to a branch, often distant, ascending; petiole 
1-2 lin. long; blade 2-12 in. long, 4-9 lin. broad, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, rounded or subcordate at the base, thinly and 
harshly pubescent on both sides, scabrid on the slightly thickened or 
revolute margin ; umbels 1-4 to a ‘stem, subaxillary and terminal, 
pedunculate, 10-16-flowered; peduncles 3-11 im. long, shortly 
hairy along one side; bracts 2-11 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 
2-3 lin. long, shortly hairy along one side, deflexed in fruit ; sepals 
ascending, 11—12 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, narrowly lanceolate, acute, 
shortly hairy on the back, usually reddish; corolla not much longer 
than the calyx, greenish-white, sometimes purplish down the baek ; 
lobes incurved-erect, 1-12 lin. long, about 3 lin. broad, ovate, obtuse, 
flattish, without a gibbosity on the glabrous inner face, sparsely 
hairy on the back ; corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal 
column and usually slightly exceeding it, faleately incurved-erect, 
distant, % lin. long, 2-1 lin. broad, linear or linear-spathulate, 
obtuse, viewed dorsally, fleshy, apparently somewhat compressed- 
keeled on the back, or perhaps very convex, flat or slightly concave 
on the inner face, apparently yellow or ochreous; staminal column 
$-i lin. long; anthers subquadrate, their appendages broadly 
ovate, inflexed over the truncate apex of the style ; follicle solitary, 
erect, about 21 in. long, 5 lin. thick, lanceolate, acuminate, pubes- 
cent ; seeds 2 lin. long, scarcely 1 lin. broad, very convex on one 
side, having a raised rim around a flattish disk on the other, rugu- 
lose with slender, irregular ridges, dull brown. Gomphocarpus 
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