678 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). [ Asclepias. 
pubescent (not velvety) on the stems, leaves, peduncles, pedicels and 
sepals; leaves erect or ascending, 8-16 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, 
linear, acute, with revolute margins ; umbels lateral and terminal, 
3-6-flowered ; peduncle } in. long ; bracts subulate, 1 lin. long; 
pedicels 4—5 lin. long ; sepals 14 lin. long, } lin. broad, lanceolate, 
acute; corolla-lobes 2} lin. long, 13 lin. broad, in dried flowers 
suberect or campanulately spreading, with inflexed tips, perhaps 
spreading when alive, ovate, subacute, pubescent on the back, 
glabrous on the inner face, apparently purplish ; corona-lobes 
arising at the base of the staminal column and in dried flowers 
overtopping it by about half their length, perhaps radiately 
spreading when alive, 2 lin. long, suberect, complicate-cucullate at 
the basal half, thence tapering to the obtuse point, the inflexed sides 
not or scarcely produced into teeth at the top angles, which are 
slightly below the level of the 1} lin.-long staminal column ; anther- 
appendages subreniform, obtuse, inflexed over the margin of the 
depressed-truncate style-apex. Gomphocarpus velutinus, Schlechter in 
Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Betbl. 45, 22. 
Kananart Recron: Transvaal ; Saddleback Mountain, near Barberton, 3500- 
4000 ft., Galpin, 450! 
The above description is made from a portion of the type specimen presented 
to Kew by Mr. E. E. Galpin, but its dimensions do not accord with those given 
by Dr. Schlechter, who describes the peduncles as being 12-17 lin. long, the 
sepals as 22 lin. long, and the corolla-lobes 3 lin. long and 2 lin. broad. The 
flowers appear to become somewhat pulpy in boiling water. The pubescence on 
mes iv seen is by no means velvet-like, but short, spreading and inclined to 
arshness. 
12. A. meyeriana (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 8); 
plant 3-6 in. high, branched at the base into very numerous 
crowded erect scabrous-puberulous leafy stems ; leaves 1-2 in. long, 
1-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, scabrous ; 
umbels 1-3 to a branch, all lateral below the uppermost leafy node, 
3-4-flowered; peduncles 4-1} in. long, puberulous or scaberulous ; 
pedicels 2-5 lin. long, puberulous or scaberulous ; sepals reflexed, 
1-11 lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla- 
lobes reflexed or reflexed-spreading, 14-2 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, 
elliptic-ovate, subacute, glabrous on both sides ; corona-lobes arising 
near the base of the staminal column and in dried flowers over- 
topping it by } their length, but probably stellately radiating when 
alive, 14-13 lin. long, narrowly complicate-cucullate at the basal 
part which is truncate at the top, making a right-angle with the 
prolonged linear concave obtuse or acute apex, apparently purple 
with whitish or yellowish sides; staminal column | lin. long ; 
anther-appendages elliptic-ovate, with their obtuse tips inflexed over 
the margin of the small crater-like style-apex ; follicles solitary, 
erect from a recurved pedicel, 13-2} in. long, 4-1 in. thick, fusiform, 
tapering into a beak, smooth, minutely puberulous ; ripe seeds not 
seen. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453. Lagarinthus revolutus, 
