Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 677 
10. A. brevipes (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455) ; plant 
usually 3-6 or occasionally up to 10 in. high, branching at the base 
into 2-8 erect, decumbent or procumbent stems, or rarely with a 
solitary stem, often somewhat flexuous or even zigzag, minutely 
scaberulous ; leaves 14—4 in. long, }—1 lin. broad, spreading or sub- 
erect, usually flexuous on dried specimens, linear, acute, with very 
revolute margins, coriaceous, minutely scabrous ; umbels 2—4 to a 
branch, lateral at the nodes, and terminal or with a pair of leaves 
beyond the uppermost, subcorymbose or racemose, §—j in. in 
diam., usually 4-flowered ; peduncles }—1} in. long, puberulous on 
one side ; bracts about 14 lin. long, subulate, caducous ; pedicels 
31-6 lin. long, puberulous ; sepals 1-1} lin. long, 3 lin, broad, 
lanceolate, acute, puberulous with curved hairs ; corolla-lobes about 
2 lin. long, 1} lin. broad, spreading, with incurved tips, ovate, 
acute, thinly puberulous or pubescent to nearly glabrous on the 
back, glabrous on the inner face, apparently greenish, tinted with 
purple-brown on the back ; corona-lobes arising close to the base of 
the staminal column and much overtopping it, ascending to some- 
what spreading, 13—2 lin. long, rounded in at the base, complicate- 
cucullate at the basal half, prolonged beyond into a linear or 
linear-oblong obtuse or subacute channelled point, the sides of 
the cucullate part making a right angle with the prolonged 
apex and produced into short ascending obtuse teeth resting 
against the backs of the anthers appear as if abruptly pinched 
together, leaving the dorsal body of the lobe standing out in a pro- 
minent ridge on each side (not visible in much-pressed specimens), 
their inner margin narrowly winged on the basal half, very 
minutely papillate within, but without a tooth or other process, 
apparently whitish with the point and dorsal part brown or dark- 
coloured ; staminal column about } lin. long ; anther appendages 
transverse, obtusely rounded, inflexed just upon the margin of the 
depressed-truncate style-apex; follicles solitary, erect from a 
recurved pedicel, 24-4 in. long, } in. thick, terete-fusiform, tapering 
into a long beak, smooth, very minutely puberulous ; seeds about 
2 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, ovate, slightly concave on one side, 
convex on the other, both sides covered with minute processes or 
short ridges, very minutely papillate-puberulous, pale brown. 
Gomphocarpus brevipes, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 28. 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke! near Heidelberg, 
4900 ft., Schlechter, 3516! Irene, Burtt Davy, 745! Springbok Flats, Burtt Davy, 
2129! near Rustenburg, Miss Pegler, 2008! Pretoria Hills, Miss Leendertz, 295 ! 
ee 5300 ft., Rogers! and without precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 
09! 
In its stouter, less branched habit, this is much like A. stellifera, Schlechter, 
whilst the flowers are like those of A. meyeriana, Schlechter. It is probably a 
hybrid between these two species. 
11. A. velutina (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455); 3-4 in. 
high, erect, branching at the base, shortly and somewhat harshly 
