580 ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). [ Xysmalobium. 
3-7 pairs to a stem, 1-2 in. distant, spreading ;:petiole 13-2} lin. 
long; blade 3-13 in. long, 4-7 lin. broad, ovate, acute, broadly 
rounded, slightly subeordate or occasionally broadly cuneate at the 
base, flat, rather thinly covered with rather soft spreading hairs on 
both sides ; umbels solitary on each branch, terminal, pedunculate, 
14-30-flowered, hemispherical or subglobose, about 1 in. in diam. ; 
peduncle usually 2-3 in. long, in weak specimens much shorter, 
erect, thinly covered with spreading hairs, and often with a minute 
pubescence besides ; bracts about 1} lin. long, subulate, deciduous ; 
pedicels 3-43 lin. long, pubescent with spreading hairs; sepals 
1-11 lin. long, 2-1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla 
about 22 lin. in diam., glabrous inside, thinly pubescent with rather 
long spreading hairs outside, brownish or greenish-brown ; lobes 
1-18 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ascending, elliptic, subobtuse ; corona- 
lobes arising slightly above the base of the staminal column, and 
reaching to about the same level, slightly divergent-spreading, 
2-3 lin. long, 4 to rather more than 4 lin. broad, linear-oblong to 
narrowly ovate, obtuse, rather thick and fleshy, in the dried state 
they sometimes appear to be slightly keeled down the inner face, 
probably due to shrinkage in drying; staminal column 7 lin. long ; 
anthers quadrate, their appendages suborbicular, inflexed over and 
nearly concealing the truneate apex of the style ; follicles not seen. 
X. pedunculatum, Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 8, t. 112. Gomphocarpus 
prunelloides, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 35, in note. 
G. harveyanus, Schlechter in Journ. Bot, 1895, 270. Asclepias 
harveyana, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 456. 
Coast Recion: Fort Beaufort Div.; common in the valleys of the Winter- 
berg Range, 5000-6000 ft., Ecklon, 41! Mrs. Barber, 82! Stockenstrom Div. ; 
grassy slopes of the Kat Berg, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1731! ridges east of Great Kat 
Berg, Scully, 178! 
18. X. Baurii (N. E. Br.); stems several, branching at the 
decumbent base only, 4-6 in. long, more or less pubescent with 
short spreading jointed hairs; leaves about 4 pairs to stem, 
3-18 in, distant, spreading ; petiole 1-2 lin. long; blade 3-1 in. 
long, 3-6 lin. broad, ovate or elongated-ovate, acute, subcordate at 
the base, subcoriaceous, flat, thinly covered on both sides with short 
spreading hairs and ciliate with the same; umbel solitary, terminal, 
- pedunculate, hemispherical, about 20-flowered ; pedunele 13-23 in. 
long, shortly hairy with jointed hairs ; bracts 1-1} lin. long, subulate 
or linear, pubescent, persistent during the flowering period ; pedicels 
3 lin. long, pubescent with short spreading hairs ; sepals 1 lin. long, 
2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent with spreading hairs on the 
back; corolla about 3 in. in diam., rotate, thinly pubescent outside, 
glabrous within, white, tipped with purple at least on the outside ; 
lobes very spreading, but not reflexed, 11-1} lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 
ovate, minutely notched at the subobtuse apex ; corona-lobes arising 
near the base of the staminal column and nearly reaching to the 
same level, erect, contiguous, 2 lin. long and broad, fleshy, orbicular 
