676 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Asclepias. 
Eastern Recion: Natal: Dargle Farm, Fannin, 50! 
This species in coronal structure has a distinct alliance with A. cultriformis, 
Harv. 
9. A. stellifera (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 9); 
plant 3-10 in. high, branching at the base; stems or branches 
usually 2-6, rarely solitary, erect or spreading, often flexuose, 
rather minutely scabrous-puberulous all round ; leaves subsessile or 
very shortly petiolate, 1_4 in. long, 3-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, 
with revolute margins, scaberulous ; umbels 1-4 lateral at the 
nodes below the uppermost pair or pairs of leaves, racemose or sub- 
corymbose, 4—7 flowered ; peduncles }-2 in. long, puberulous ; 
bracts none or filiform, 1-1} lin. long; pedicels 3-8 lin. long, 
puberulous ; sepals reflexed, about 2 lin. long, }—} lin. broad, ovate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent ; corolla-lobes reflexed, 23-3 lin. 
long, 14-1} lin. broad, ovate, minutely notched at the acute apex, 
pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face, apparently light 
purple ; corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column, 
stellately wide-spreading, 23-3} lin. long, narrowly complicate- 
cucullate, acute, with the inflexed margins tapering into the point 
from the rectangularly truncate or slightly toothed base where 
pressed against the top of the staminal column, slightly concave or 
nearly straight along the top, minutely velvety-papillate within, but 
without a tooth or other process ; staminal column. | lin. long ; 
anther-appendages transverse or orbicular, with their tips resting 
upon or inflexed over the margin of the crater-like style-apex ; 
follicles 21. in. or more long, 3-4 lin. thick, fusiform, acuminate or 
beaked, smooth, minutely puberulous. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1896, 453; Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 200. A. simplex, Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455. Gomphocarpus simple, Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 21, and xx. Beibl. 51, 28, in note. Lagarin- 
thus revolutus, E. Meyer, Comm. 205. Gomphocarpus revolutus, Dietr. 
Syn. Pl. ii, 901 ; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 561 ; Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 9 ; xx. Beibl. 51, 36. 
Coast Recron, 3500-4000 ft.: Queenstown Div. ; hills near Shiloh, Drege, 
3425! Finchams Nek, near Queenstown, Galpin, 1601 ! Tambukiland, Zeyher ! 
Kaanart Recon, 4500-6000 ft. : Griqualand West; Vaal River Flats, 
Bowker (Mrs. Barber), 706! Orange River Colony; Bethlehem, Richardson ' 
Basutoland, Cooper, 2721! 2735! Transvaal ; near Johannesburg, Rand, 704! 
705! 857! Gilfillan, 73 (in Herb. Galpin, 6047)! Saddleback Mountain, peer 
Barberton, 4000 ft., Galpin, 552! Zuikerbosch Rand, Schlechter, 3491! Heidel- 
berg, Burtt Davy, 3094! Springbok Flats, Burtt Davy, 2129! Bezuidenhout 
Valley, Ommaney, 143! Modderfontein, Conrath, 995! : 
Eavrern Rearox, 3500-4500 ft.: Transkei; Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 784" 
Griqualand East ; Mount Malowe, Tyson, 3116! Natal ; Klip Kiver, Sutherland ! 
Dargle Farm, Fannin, 17! 
The corona-lobes of Gomphocarpus simplex are described as ‘‘lanceolate- 
rhomboid, somewhat obtuse, verrucose on the thickened back, with erect margins 
produced into a short suberect tooth.” I have examined a portion of the type 
ey find them narrowly complicate-cucullate as described above, and the plant 1» 
every way identical with 4. stellifera. 
