674 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Asclepias. 
6. A. patens (N. E. Br.); stem solitary, erect, 1-13 ft. high, 
slender, puberulous on the upper part, glabrous below ; leaves in 
5-9 pairs, subsessile, widely spreading or slightly drooping, or the 
upper erect from a broadly curved base, 3-42 in. long, 1-4 lin. 
broad, linear, attenuate-acute, truncate or subhastate at the base, 
minutely scabrous above and on the midrib of the paler underside ; 
umbels 3—5, lateral at the nodes and terminal, lower racemosely, 
upper corymbosely arranged, 4-6-flowered ; peduncles usually 3-5 
lin. long, adpressed-puberulous ; pedicels }—} in. long, slender, 
adpressed-puberulous ; sepals about 1} lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
puberulous ; corolla-lobes reflexed, 24-2} lin. long, 13-2 lin. broad, 
elliptic or elliptic-ovate, subacute, glabrous on both sides, white on 
the inner face, dark purple-brown at the apical part on the back ; 
corona-lobes arising 4—} lin. up the staminal column, compressed- 
cucullate, 1-1} lin. long and 1} lin. broad across the side at the top 
(including the teeth), somewhat quadrate in side view, with an out- 
wardly descending truncate base, subtruncate at the top, with the 
dorsal apex slightly produced but not ascending to so high a level 
as the inner apical angles, which are produced over the style-apex 
into long falcate acute teeth, below which on each margin is @ 
narrow wing ending in a minute erect tooth, the back and base 
apparently narrowly wing- or keel-margined on each side, no tooth 
or process within, white, or perhaps tinged with pink ; staminal 
column about 1} lin. long ; anther-appendages small, about 4 lin. 
long and broad, suborbicular, inflexed upon the margin of the 
slightly depressed-truncate style-apex. 
_ EastERN REGION : Transkei ; around Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Pegler, 366! 
eae Country, Bowker, 37! Pondoland ; near Port St. John, 500 ft., Galpin, 
! 
_ This resembles A. premorsa, but is at once distinguished by the non-petaloid 
inflexed anther-appendages. 
7. A. peltigera (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 8); 
stem solitary, simple, 1-3 ft. high, puberulous on the upper part, 
glabrous below, with internodes 1-3 in. long; leaves subsessile, 
mostly 34-4} in. long, 3-1} (rarely 2-3) lin. broad, linear, acute or 
obtuse at the apex, subtruncate or auriculate at the base, widely 
spreading or with the upper part curved upwards, * sometimes 
deflexed, usually scabrous above and on the midrib beneath, rarely 
glabrous ; umbels 2-5, lateral at the nodes and terminal, racemose, 
rarely solitary and terminal, 3-4-flowered ; peduncles }—1 in. long. 
puberulous ; bracts none ; pedicels }—} in. long, puberulous ; s€ 
14-1} lin. long, 3-} lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; 
corolla-lobes 4-4} lin. long, 24-3 lin. broad, narrowly elliptic or 
elliptic-oblong, notched at the obtuse apex, very spreading oF 
perhaps reflexed, pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face, 
apparently sometimes white, sometimes purple with white margins, 
purple on the back ; corona-lobes arising at the base of the stam 
