672 ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). [ Asclepias. 
rounded on the back, in side view subcireular and transversely 
notched at the top to half way down with the obtuse point 
ineurved, or with a subcircular basal part dorsally produced 
above into a linear-oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse or slightly bifid 
point, erect or recurving at the tip, the part adnate to the column 
produced into short erect acute angles, densely puberulous inside, 
but without any appendage or process ; staminal-column 13-2 lin. 
long ; anther-appendages transverse, acute, inflexed over the rim of 
the depressed - truncate style - apex. Gomphocarpus cucullatus, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 17, and xx. Beibl. 
51, 28. 
Katanart Recron: Orange River Colony; Harrismith, Sankey, 185! 
Transvaal; Saddleback Mountain near Barberton, 3500-4500 ft., Galpin, 1034! 
Frischgewacht in the Zoutpans Berg, Miss Leendertz, 823! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei, Hallack! Umtata Div. ; Bazeia, Baur! Natal; 
near Van Reenen, 5000-60.0 ft., Wood, 4820! 5384! 5667 ! between Greytown 
and Newcastle, Wilms, 2141! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock! Greenwich Farm, 
Riet Vlei, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2741! Shafton, Howick, Mrs, Hutton, 41! 
317! 407! Swaziland; near Mbabane, 5000 ft., Bolus, 12134! Miller | 
In the dried specimens the corolla appears to be whitish tinged with purple on 
the inside, purple on the back, and the corona whitish or dull yellow with a 
purple-brown stripe down the back, but Mr. Wood notes on one label “ calyx 
brown, corolla and corona yellow ”; and on another label ‘‘ corona pinky-white.” 
4. A. expansa (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 7); 
stem solitary, simple, 10-24 in. high, puberulous on the flowering 
part, nearly or quite glabrous below, with internodes }—3 in. long ; 
leaves varying from ascending to deflexed, 2}-5 in. long, 3-1} lin. 
broad, linear, acute, auriculate or subtruncate at the base, glabrous or 
scaberulous on the margins and midrib beneath ; umbels 2-5, 
racemose or occasionally subcorymbose, 4—8-flowered ; peduncles 
1-3 in, long, puberulous; bracts 1-1} lin. long, subulate, very 
deciduous; pedicels 3-3 in. long, puberulous; sepals 14-1} lin. 
long, 3 lin. broad, ovate or lanceolate, acute, thinly puberulous; 
corolla-lobes spreading, 3}-5 lin. long, 24-2} lin. broad, ovate or 
oblong-ovate, obtusely pointed, glabrous on both sides, green (Bowker) 
on the inner face, purplish on the back ; corona-lobes arising } lin. 
up the staminal column, apparently whitish or greenish-white, with 
the point and a dorsal stripe purple, 2-3 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad 
across the side of the complicate-cucullate part, the inflexed sides 0 
which are produced at the apex into tapering or oblong and 
entire or unequally bilobulate acute or obtuse lobes 2-1} lin. long, 
apparently more or less diverging and directed towards the centre, 
dorsal apex produced into a subulate spreading point 1-2 lin. long, n° 
tooth or other process within; anther-appendages subpetaloid, 
erect, 14-1} lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, oblong to subspathulate- 
elliptic, very obtuse, exceeding the style-apex by their whole length 
and slightly exceeding the cucullate part of the corona-lobes, 
ved brown” (Wood), Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 1896, 452. 
