578 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [Xysmalobiwm. 
pachyglossus, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 35, Asele- 
pias pachyglossa, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455. 
Katanart Recion: Basutoland, Cooper, 934! Orange River Colony, near 
Witzies Hoek, 6300 ft., Bolus, 8112! Harrismith, Sankey, 1341 Transvaal ; 
between Waterval River and Zuikerbosch Rand, Schlechter, 3493 ! 
EAsterN ReGIoN: Transkei; near Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 864! Griqualand 
East ; stony slopes around Kokstad, 5100 ft., Tyson, 1247! Haygarth in Herb. 
Wood, 4212! Natal; Dargle Farm, Fannin, 41! Greenwich Farm, Riet Vlei, 
Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2742! Weenen County, 3000-6000 ft., Sutherland ! 
Wood, 4370! near Van Reenen, Wood, 6633! near Nottingham Road, Wood, 
6805! between Greytown and Newcastle, Wilms, 2137! Klip River, 3500- 
4500 ft., Sutherland ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 12388 ! 
Harvey’s type of this species is Fannin 41, with which the other specimens 
quoted are identical, but Bolus, 5704, and Burchell, 4151, quoted by Scott- 
Elliot under this species, do not belong to it. The former is X. asperwm, the 
latter is too immature for determination ; it was collected between Rietfontein 
and the source of Kasuga River, in Bathurst Div.,a region whence X. parvi- 
forum is unknown, 
15, X. asperum (N. E. Br.); plant probably branched at the 
base; branches 1—1 ft. long, apparently more or less decumbent, 
sparingly subhispid, chiefly bifariously ; leaves ascending-spreading ; 
petiole 1-4 lin. long; blade 2-21 in. long, 43-9 lin. broad, ovate, 
ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, rounded 
or subeordate at the base, scabrid on both sides, narrowly revolute 
or slightly thickened at the scabrid margins; umbels 2-6 to a 
branch or occasionally solitary, lateral at the nodes and terminal, 
peduneulate, 3-1 in. in diam., 10-20-flowered ; peduncles 1-12 in. 
long, scabrid-pubescent on one side ; bracts 13-2 lin, long, subulate ; 
pedicels 3-4 lin. long, scabrid-pubescent on one side ; sepals very 
spreading or reflexed, 1-11 lin. long, }—3 lin. broad, lanceolate or 
linear-lanceolate, acute, thinly and barshly pubescent on the back ; 
corolla-lobes spreading or reflexed, 11-14 lin. long, 1}—1} lin. broad, 
ovate, subobtuse, without a gibbosity on the inner face, glabrous on 
both sides or with a very few hairs on the back, green (Rand), 
often purple at the tips on the back ; corona-lobes arising close to 
the base of the staminal column and about equalling or shorter than 
it, erect or ascending-spreading, more or less contiguous, $—1; lin. 
long, about % lin, broad, fleshy, ovoid, ellipsoid or subglobose, 
obtuse, nearly as thick as broad, perhaps slightly compressed dorsally, 
sometimes appearing slightly flattened on the back, at others on the 
inner face, not keeled, apparently orange, ‘‘ dull yellow” (Rand) ; 
staminal column 3-1 lin. long, not broadened at the base ; anther- 
appendages transverse, rounded, inflexed on the margin of the 
truncate style-apex; follicles 21-3 in. long, about $ in. thick, 
lanceolate, acuminate, with about 9 longitudinal rows of stiff spine- 
like processes 2-1 lin. long, glabrous. Gomphocarpus parviflorus, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 35, excl. syn. Xysmalobium 
parviflorum, Harv. Asclepias sulphurea, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 
ny 312, and Rand, l.c. 339, doubtfully of Schlechter, see note on 
p. 577. 
