670 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Aselepias. 
Corona-lobes distinctly longer from the base 
to the dorsal apex than to the teeth or 
apex of the inflexed sides, and in dried 
specimens often much overtopping the 
staminal column ; corolla-lobes glabrous 
on the inver face : 
Leaves glabrous on the upper surface : 
Leaves 2-10 lin. long, tapering to a very 
acute point from a hastate or trun- 
cate base... .. (18) multicaulis. 
Leaves 3-2 in. long, linear-oblong, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse 
or subacute ... ied a ... (42) erispa, var. y. 
Leaves harshly or scabrous-pubescent or 
scabrous above or on both sides ; 
Peduncles much shorter than the leaves 
subtending them, 4-3 in. long... (41) hastata. 
Peduneles as long as or longer than the 
leaves subtending them : 
Peduncles 1-3? in. long ; corona-lobes 
1-13 lin. long... Ae ... (50) affinis. 
Peduneles 3-6 in. long; corona-lobes 
23-24 lin. long... ee ... (51) macropus. 
1. A. macra (Schlechter in Journ. Bot, 1896, 456); stem 6-12 
in. high, simple, compressed, pubescent with spreading hairs, chiefly 
bifariously, with internodes 4-11 in. long; leaves erect or ascending, 
apparently secund, 3-51 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad, linear with revolute 
margins, acute, rounded or cuneate into a short broad petiole, more 
or less scabrous-pubescent; umbels 1-2 to a stem, pedunculate, 
9-13-flowered ; peduncles 3-11 in. long, pubescent or scabrous- 
pubescent; bracts 3-4 lin. long, linear-subulate, acute, scabrous- 
pubescent, deciduous; pedicels 7-9 lin. long, scabrous-pubescent ; 
sepals 3-34 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent ; 
corolla subglobose-campanulate, 2 in. in diam. across the lobes, 
pubescent with spreading hairs and stained with purple-brown out- 
side, glabrous and yellowish within; tube 3-3} lin. long, 5-6 Jin. in 
diam. at the mouth; lobes 3 lin. long, 34-3} lin. broad, broadly 
ovate, subobtuse, recurving at the tips, ciliolate along one margin ; 
corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column and adnate to 
it for 2 of their length, compressed-cucullate, erect, 2} lin. long, 
11 lin. broad across the side, subrectangular in general outline viewed 
sideways, 3-lobed at the top, without a tooth or crest within, but the 
inner surface minutely puberulous; lateral lobes 1 lin. long, ¢ lin. 
broad, falcate-oblong, obtuse, with their upper margin obliquely 
spreading, dorsal lobe nearly 1 lin. long, oblong, obtusely ‘bifid, 
folded lengthwise, erect; staminal column } in. long; anther- 
appendages roundish-subquadrate, with their tips incurved over the 
thickened crenulate rim of the depressed- truncate style-apex. 
A. suaveolens, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 9 in note, not 
of Leconte. Gomphocarpus suaveolens, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb, 
xx, Beibl. 51, 38, 
