. 
Fanninia. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 668 
21-31 lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 
villous ; corolla-lobes suberect or campanulately spreading, 5-6} lin. 
long, 2-3 lin.'broad, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, villous on the back, 
the inner face hairy on the borders and bearded with long hairs at 
the apex, otherwise glabrous, white, tinted with purplish on the back ; 
corona-lobes arising about 1 lin. up the staminal column, suberect or 
very slightly spreading, 21-3 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, broadly linear, 
emarginate or notched at the apex, flat, with a well marked midrib, 
dark purple-brown, bearing at the base 2 erect linear acute whitish 
lobes 1 lin. long, }—2 lin. broad, with their tips incurved over the 
backs of the anther-appendages; staminal column 2 lin. long, con- 
tracted under the corona-lobes; anther-appendages much broader 
than long, rounded, fringed with long hairs at their tips, which are 
inflexed upon the truncate style-apex. Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 
1894, 261, and Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 10; K. Schum. in 
Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 233 and 234, fig. 68, E-F. 
Coast Recion: Cathcart Div.; near Thomas River, 2600 ft., Flanagan, 
1685. Stutterheim Div.; Mount Dohne, 4000 ft., Sim / 
Eastern Recion: Transkei, Hallack! Mrs. Barber, 30! Tembuland ; 
Bazeia, 2500 ft., Baur, 553! Griqualand East ; Mount Malowe, 4000 ft., 
Tyson, 2720! and in MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 897 ; 
Natal, Dargle Farm, Fannin, 49! 
This is one of the most beautiful of South African Asclepiads and well worth 
cultivating. 
XVIII. ASCLEPIAS, Linn. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed, usually nearly to the base, often 
reflexed; lobes narrowly overlapping in bud. Corona of 5 lobes 
arising at or above the base of the staminal column, erect or radiately 
spreading, cucullate or compressed-cucullate, at least at the basal 
part, or with a fissure down the inner face, with or without a horn, 
tooth, flap, keel or other process within the cavity. Staminal column 
arising from the base of the corolla, united above with the dilated 
top of the style; anthers erect, terminated by membranous or rarely 
subpetaloid appendages, which are erect or inflexed upon or over the 
top of the style. Pollen-masses solitary and pendulous in each 
anther-cell, opaque, attached in pairs to the pollen-carriers by long or 
short caudicles of variable shape; pollen-carriers seated upon or 
below the margin of the style-apex. Style truncate, depressed or 
rarely shortly 5-lobed at the apex. ollicles solitary or very rarely 
in pairs, globose to narrowly fusiform, usually beaked, smooth, 
winged or more or less covered with subulate processes or tubercles, 
Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. 
Perennial herbs, often with a tuberous rootstock ; stems erect or decumbent, 
simple or branched ; leayes opposite or whorled, linear-filiform to elliptic, some- 
times cordate or hastate at the base; flowers usually of moderate size, in | 
Soy ogni or very rarely sessile umbels, lateral at the nodes or terminal 
or both, 
