Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 679 
var. minor, E. Meyer, Comm. 205. Gomphocarpus meyerianus, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 33. 
Coast RrGion : Queenstown Div., 3000-4000 ft. ; near Shiloh, Drége, 3486 ! 
near Queenstown, Cooper, 268! Mrs. Barber, 90! Galpin, 1584! Eastern Frontier, 
Mrs. Barber ! 
CENTRAL Recion: Steynsburg Div.; Zuurberg Range, Burke, 418! Albert 
Div. ; between the Zuurberg Range and Stormberg Spruit, Zeyher, 1156! Aliwal 
North Div. ; by the Orange River, Burke ! 
Kacanari Recron : Griqualand West ; Warrenton, Miss Adams, 106! Transvaal ; 
Potchefstroom, Burtt Davy, 1818! 2168 ! 
Eastern REGIon: Natal; plains by the Tugela River, near Colenso, 3000- 
4500 ft., Wood, 4108! Schlechter, 3378! Krook, 788 (ex Schlechter), near 
Ladysmith, Schlechter! near Dundee, Wood, 6544 ! 
13. A. multicaulis (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 8) ; 
plant 4—6 in. high, branching at the base ; stems often numerous, 
decumbent-spreading, bifariously pubescent, or sometimes thinly and 
rather harshly pubescent all round; leaves secund-spreading ; 
petiole 13 lin. long ; blade 24-10 lin. long, 1}—3} lin. broad at the 
truncate, subsagittate or subhastate base, thence tapering to a very 
acute apex, glabrous above, slightly scabrous on the margins and 
subhispid on the midrib beneath ; umbels solitary, rarely 2 to a 
stem, terminal, pedunculate, 6—9-flowered ; peduncle 4-1} in. long, 
pubescent, chiefly on one side; bracts 1-2 lin. long, subulate, 
pubescent ; pedicels unequal, 2-6 lin. long, so that the umbel is flat- 
topped, pubescent or puberulous; sepals 1-1} lin. long, }—} lin. 
broad, ovate-lanceolate, very acute, pubescent ; corolla-lobes reflexed, 
2 lin. long, 1}—1} lin. broad, ovate, subacute, glabrous on both sides, 
but the inner face with a very minutely papillose surface, sometimes 
minutely ciliate on one margin ; corona-lobes arising at the base of 
the staminal column and shortly overtopping it, 1-1} lin. long, erect, 
cucullate, but dorsally flattened, so that the inflexed sides are 
pressed against the inner face of the lobe and end in deltoid acute 
contiguous teeth, which incurve upon the back of the anther 
appendages, but do not exceed them, and are much shorter than the 
_ovate obtuse apical part of the lobe ; staminal column }~1 lin. long ; 
anther-appendages subreniform or transversely elliptic, very obtuse, 
erect, not inflexed over the pentagonal style-apex ; follicles solitary, 
fusiform, tapering into a beak, smooth and glabrous, only an 
immature example seen. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453. 
Lagarinthus multicaulis, E. Meyer, Comm. 205. Gomphocarpus 
multicaulis, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 901; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 559 ; 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 8 ; xx. Beibl. 51, 34. 
Bree Reaion : Queenstown Div. ; by the Klipplaat River, near Shiloh, Drege, 
! 
* So Region: Aliwal North Div.; on the Witteberg Range, Drege (ex 
. eyer ). 
shencin Reaton ; Basutoland, or Orange River Colony, Cooper, 935! Orange 
River Colony ; Bethlehem, Richardson ! Harrismith, Sankey, 188! Transvaal ; 
Witkleifontein, Burtt Davy, 3128 ! : 
Eastern REGION: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 213! Natal ; Greenwich 
Farm, Riet Vlei, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2740! 
