Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 675 
column shorter than and adnate to it, 2-2} lin. high, oblong 
in side view, dorsally divided to the base, from which arises 
an erect lobe shaped like a fish-tail and reaching to about 
half way up, apparently white or yellowish, with the apex 
of the fish-tail-lobe purplish or orange-red tinted ; staminal column 
23-3 lin. long ; anther-appendages half-orbicular, obtuse, inflexed 
over the margin of the slightly depressed-truncate style-apex ; 
young follicles fusiform, minutely tomentose. Schlechter in Journ. 
Bot. 1896, 453, and Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 68. Laga- 
rinthus peltigerus, E. Meyer, Comm. 205. Gomphocarpus peltigerus, 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 901 ; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 561. G. truncatus, 
Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 42, t. 67 ; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 
45, 10, not of Dietr. 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div. ; Vanstadens Berg, Drége (ex E. Meyer). Fort 
Beaufort Div.; near Fort Beaufort, Cooper, 2719 partly! Komgha Div. ; near 
iy Flanagan, 393! Krook, 787, 833 (ex Schlechter); British Kaffraria, 
‘cooper, 470! 
EasTERN ReGIon : Transkei; between Kei River and Bashee River, 1000-2000 ft., 
Drége! near Butterworth, Mrs. Barber! Bowker, 7 ! Kentani district, Miss Pegler, 
365! Tembuland ; Bazeia Mountain, 2500 ft., Bawr, 385! near Engcobo, Bolus, 
10200! Natal; between Umkomanzi River and Umlazi River, Drége (ex 
E. Meyer), Inanda, Wood, 362! and without precise locality, Gueinzius! Gerrard, 
1984! Sanderson, 371! 
Lagarinthus peltigerus, Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 543 (by 
error 443), and Krauss in Flora, 1844, 826, collected by Krauss (105) around 
Durban Bay, is probably another species, as according to Meisner “ Drége’s 
plant” (i.e. the type of L. peltigerus) ‘‘has the flowers somewhat larger and the 
leaves shorter.” 
8. A. bicuspis (N. E. Br.) ; stem }~1 ft. high, simple, somewhat 
harshly pubescent, more or less bifariously above ; leaves apparently 
not more than 4—6 pairs to a stem, spreading, 1}—3 in. long, 1-2 lin. 
broad, linear, with revolute margins, subacute, subscabrous-pubescent 
above and with longer hairs on the midrib beneath; umbels 2-5, 
lateral and terminal, pedunculate, racemose or the upper sub- 
corymbose, 5—8-flowered ; peduncles }~1} in. long, pubescent on 
one side; pedicels 31-5 lin. long, pubescent or puberulous on one 
side; sepals 14-11 lin. long, } lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, 
pubescent ; corolla-lobes spreading about 2} lin. long, 1} lin. broad, 
ovate, acute, perhaps with recurved margins, pubescent on the back, 
densely white-bearded or subwoolly along the borders and glabrous 
or most minutely puberulous on the disk of the inner face, not 
ciliate ; corona-lobes arising about 4 lin. up the staminal column, 
suberect, complicate, } lin. long and nearly as much across the side, 
subquadrate in side view, obliquely truncate at the top, with the 
inner apical angles produced into subulate teeth 1 lin. long, ascend- 
ing high over the centre of the 1 lin.-long staminal column ; no 
tooth within the cavity ; anther-appendages exceedingly short, nearly 
4 times as broad as long, transversely oblong-linear, erect, not at 
all inflexed over the margin of the truncate ge a : 
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