Krebsia.] ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 587 
lanceolate, strongly keeled all down the back and more or less 
acutely triquetrous in transverse section, with a rhomboid wing-like 
dilation on the back at the base, tapering above into an acute 
incurved-hooked apex, without an appendage on the inner face. 
Stamens united into a cylindric column around and with the style; 
filamental part very short or almost none; anthers erect, tipped with 
a membranous appendage. Pollen-masses solitary in each cell, 
pendulous, attached in pairs by slender caudicles to the pollen- 
carriers, which are seated much below the margin of the style-apex. 
Style not exceeding the anther-appendages, depressed-truncate or 
shallowly crater-like with a thickened margin at the apex. ollicles 
not seen, 
Perennial herbs, probably with a tuberous rootstock ; leaves linear ; umbels 
lateral at the nodes, subglobose, very shortly pedunculate ; flowers small. © 
Distris, Species 2, endemic. 
Harvey (Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 238) founded the genus Krebsia upon Mrs. 
F, W. Barber and H. Bowker’s 2938, and Gerrard’s 1309, without giving a 
specific name, and I retain it solely on account of its coronal structure, for 
besides the dorsal keel and basal wings at the back of the corona-lobes, there is 
little to distinguish it from Schizoglosswm. Schlechter has referred to this 
genus (entirely on account of its similarity in appearance and disregarding its 
coronal structure) another species, which has the structure of Xysmalobiwm, 
under which genus I have placed it. 
Pedicels about 1 lin. long; corona-lobes 3—4 lin. long G corniculata, 
Pedicels 13-3 lin. long; corona-lobes 24 lin. long ... (2) stenoglossa, 
1. K. corniculata (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 40) ; 
stems 4-8 in. high, simple or branched at the base, bifariously 
puberulous ; leaves ascending or somewhat spreading, 2-3} in. long, 
2-12 lin, broad, linear, acute, with revolute. margins; umbels 
pedunculate or subsessile, 3—-8-flowered, globose ; peduncle 1—4} lin. 
long ; bracts 1-3 lin. long, linear-subulate, glabrous ; pedicels about 
1 lin. long, rather stout, puberulous; sepals 2-2} lin. long, $ lin. 
broad, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; corolla-lobes 3 lin. long, 14-1} lin. 
broad, oblong, obtusely pointed, erect, concave at the basal part, 
convex and recurved-revolute at the tips, glabrous on both sides 
with a velvety sheen on the surface of the apical part, whitish; 
corona-lobes erect, exserted beyond the corolla, 3—4 lin. long, nearly 
1 lin. broad at the base, lanceolate, gradually tapering to a subulate 
ineurved-hooked apex, prominently and acutely keeled down the 
back, with a rhomboid expansion on the back at the base, flattish or 
perhaps slightly channelled on the inner face, apparently purple- 
brown with paler margins; staminal column about 1} lin. long; 
anther-appendages ovate, acute, with their tips inflexed over the 
rim of the shallowly crater-like style-apex. Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 8, and Journ, Bot. 1896, 450. Lagarinthus 
corniculatus, E. Meyer, Comm, 208. Gomphocarpus corniculatus, 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 901 ; Deene in DC. Prodr, viii. 561. 
Coast Reaion: Fort Beaufort Div.; hills near the Kat River, Drege (ex 
E. Meyer) ; Queenstown Div. ; Table Mountain, 5000 ft., Drége, 3423 ! 
