Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADES (Brown), 673 
Lagarinthus expansus, E. Meyer, Comm. 206 ; Meisn. in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 544 (by error 444), and Krauss in Flora, 1844, 
826. Gomphocarpus expansus, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 901; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 560; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 7. 
Coast Recion: Knysna Div.; near the Knysna River, Arauss (ex Meisner). 
Uitenhage Div.: by the Zwartkops River, Prior! Van Stadens Mountains, 
Zeyher, 591! Bolus, 1549! Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, Mrs. Hutton! Mac 
Owan, 675! Galpin, 3095! Glass in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1504! Bolus, 
9128! King Williamstown Div. : near Kachu (Yellowwood River) Drége, 4972! 
East London Div.; near East London, Wood in Herb. Galpin, 3380! Komgha 
Div. ; near Komgha, Flanagan, 398! British Kaffraria, Mrs. Hutton ! 
Eastern Recion : Transkei ; Fort Bowker, Bowker, 376 ! 
The petaloid anther-appendages of this species are very remarkable. 
5. A. premorsa (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 8); 
stem probably solitary, simple, 14-2 ft. high, slightly puberulous on 
the upper part, glabrous below, with internodes 2—4 in. long; 
leaves subsessile, spreading or upcurved, 21-5 in. long, {—1 lin. broad, 
linear, acute, truncate or auriculate at the base, with revolute 
margins, scaberulous ; umbels 3—5, lateral and terminal, racemose, 
or occasionally solitary and terminal in weak plants, 4—5-flowered ; 
peduncles 1-1 in. long, puberulous; bracts about 1} lin. long, 
subulate, very deciduous ; pedicels 6—7 lin. long, puberulous ; sepals 
about 11 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; 
corolla-lobes 2-34 lin. long, 13-2} lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, acute or 
subobtuse, glabrous on both sides, apparently white or greenish- 
white ; corona-lobes arising } lin. up the staminal column, much 
overtopping the style-apex, erect, 11-1} lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad 
across the side, cucullate or complicate-cucullate, the top margins 
shortly produced into erect obtuse teeth at the inner apical 
margins, subtruncate and slightly recurved or concavely notched in 
front of the teeth and then convexly ascending to the dorsal 
obtuse apex, no tooth within; anther-appendages subpetaloid, con- 
nivent-erect, overtopping the corona-lobes, 3-1} lin. long, 3—} lin. 
broad, oblong or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, white. 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453, and Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. 
Wien, xv. 68. Lagarinthus truncatus, E. Meyer, Comm. 206. Gom- 
phocarpus truncatus, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 901; Decne in DC. Prodr. 
vill. 560, 
Coast Recion : Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, Kreok, 796 (ex Schlechter). _ 
Eastern ReGion : Transkei ; between the Kei River and Gekau (Gcua) River, 
Drege, 4971! Pondoland ; between Umkwani River and Umsikaba River, 200 ft., 
Tyson, 2630! Natal; Krantz Kloof and near Durban, Wood, 1162! hill near 
Murchison, Wood, 3040! 
Lagarinthus truncatus, Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii, 1848, 544 (by 
error 444), and Krauss in Flora, 1844, 826, not of E. Meyer, collected by Krauss 
near Zitzikama in Humansdorp Div., is thus described :—‘‘ Perhaps a new species, 
differing from Drége’s plant, which we have not seen, in having the leaves 
glabrous and the terminal umbella solitary, with an involucre of 4-5 linear 
leaflets of equal length as the pedicels, 4-5 lines; but our specimens are 
insufficient.” I have not seen Krauss’ plant, 
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