586 ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). [Cordylogyne. 
1. C. globosa (E. Meyer, Comm. 218); plant 121. ft. high, with 
1 or more stems, simple or branched at the base, puberulous on one 
side of the upper part, with the lower internodes short and the 
middle and upper 11-8 in. long ; leaves ereet or ascending, 1-3} in. 
long, 1—14 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, glabrous; 
umbel solitary and terminal or 2-4 to a stem and racemose, 
subglobose, 10-25-flowered ; peduncles 1-10 in. long, erect, 
puberulous on one side or all round; pedieels 13-3 lin. long, 
puberulous; sepals suberect, 1-1} lin. long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate 
or ovate, acute, puberulous ; corolla-lobes 2-25 lin. long, 3-1 lin. 
broad, oblong, obtuse, erect, recurved or shortly revolute at the 
tips, glabrous on both sides ; corona-lobes erect, 1 lin. long, about 
2 lin. broad at the upper part, subspathulate-hastate. or linear-oblong, 
with a triangular projection on each side at about the middle, very 
obtuse, flat on the back, with a transverse ridge-like or broadly 
deltoid flap above the middle of the inner face pressed down upon 
the tops of the closely contiguous and rather inconspicuous keels ; 
staminal column 1-12 lin. long ; anther-appendages ovate or oblong, 
very obtuse, concave, erect around the base of the stout clavate style- 
apex, which is produced }—$ lin. beyond them and the corona-lobes, 
often globose at the top; follicles solitary, erect, about 3 in. 
long, 2 in, thick, narrowly fusiform, nearly equally tapering at both 
ends, puberulous; seeds about 3 in. long and % in. broad, ovate, 
flattish, with broad margins, minutely papillate rugulose or sub- 
scabrid on the disk on both sides, light brown. Harv. Gen. S. 
Afr. Pl. ed. 1, 226; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 518; Delessert, Ic. 
Pl. y. 27, t.64; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 41; 
xxi. Beibl. 54, 10; and Journ. Bot. 1896, 450; K. Schum. in 
Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 234, fig. 68, L. 
SoutH ArRica: without locality, Zeyher, 1170! 
Coast Rea@ion : Queenstown Div.; between Table Mountain and the Zwart- 
kei River, Drage, 3431! damp places by streams and springs, Mrs. Barber ! 
CENTRAL Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.; Sneeuwberg Range, 5000 ft., Bolus, 
2634! Colesberg Div. ; Slengersfontein, Drége / near Colesberg, Shaw / Hanover 
Div.; near Hanover, Sim, 2862 ! 
* Kananart Reoion: Griqualand West; Campbell, Burchell, 1809! 1836! 
Orange River Colony; Sand Drift, Burke! Transvaal ; Bergendal, 6000 ft. 
Schlechter, 4015! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; near Charlestown, 5000-6000 ft., Wood, 4797! 
51421 5648! Greenwich Farm, Riet Viey, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2738! 
Mohlamba Range, Sutherland ! near Newcastle, Wood, 6227 ! 
According to Mr, Medley Wood the flowers are green and white. 
XV. KREBSIA, Harv. (not of Eckl. & Zeyh.) 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes sub- 
erect or campanulately spreading, concave at the lower part, recurved 
at the tips. Corona-lobes 5, arising at or near the base of the 
staminal column, exceeding the corolla, simple, erect, narrowly 
