680 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Asclepias. 
14. A. disparilis (N. E. Br.); plant 4-8 in. high, branching at 
the base; branches decumbent, somewhat harshly and thinly 
pubescent, chiefly along one side ; leaves (including the 1-1} lin.- 
long petiole) }-1} in. long, 14-4} lin. broad, linear-attenuate, 
linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, truncate or slightly hastate at 
the base, glabrous on both sides or with a few short stiff hairs on 
the midrib beneath ; umbel solitary on each branch, terminal, erect, 
4-8-flowered ; peduncle 1-3 in. long ; bracts 1}—3 lin. long, subulate 
or filiform ; pedicels }—2 in. long, puberulous or subscabrous down 
one side ; sepals 2 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, with a 
few spreading hairs on the back ; corolla-lobes very spreading, 4 lin. 
long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous on 
the back, with a very minute papillate-puberulous or velvet-like 
surface on the inner face, apparently pale purplish ; corona-lobes 
arising close to the base of the staminal column and not overtopping 
it, 2-21 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad across the side, erect, complicate- 
cucullate, with infolded margins, narrowed into the column at the 
base, obliquely and sinuously subtruncate at the top, the dorsal 
subobtuse apex being very slightly produced, with a transverse 
shelf-like flap within the cavity above the middle ; staminal column 
2 lin. long. 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East ; meadows around Clydesdale, 2500 ft., 
Tyson, 2004! and in MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1319! 
Like A. navicularis, Schlechter, in floral structure, but the foliage and appear- 
ance of the plant is entirely different. 
15. A. flexuosa (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453) ; plant #1 
(rarely up to 2) ft. high, branching at the base; stems probably 
decumbent at the base, ascending or erect, more or less flattened, 
unifariously or bifariously puberulous ; leaves very spreading or 
deflexed, very shortly petiolate, }—2} in. long, 3-2 lin. broad, linear, 
acute, slightly hastate or cordate at the base, somewhat scabrous- 
pubescent on the midrib beneath, otherwise glabrous, coriaceous } 
umbels solitary, very rarely 2, terminal, 7-1} in. in diam., 6-14- 
flowered ; peduncle 4-11 (rarely up to 3) in. long; bracts 1-3 lin. 
long, subulate ; pedicels 3-7 lin. long, puberulous on one side ; 
sepals 3-2 lin. long, 3-2 lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, thinly pubescent ; corolla-lobes reflexed or reflexed-spreading, 
13-21 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, oblong-ovate to elliptic-ovate, 
subobtuse, glabrous on the back, minutely papillate-puberulous oD 
the inner face ; corona-lobes arising at the base of and nearly twice 
as long as the staminal column, erect or ascending, 14-2 lin. long ; 
basal half cucullate, dorsally rounded into the column with A-shaped 
keels on the back, inflexed sides produced at the apex into short 
acute teeth resting on the anther-appendages, with a narrow wing 
descending obliquely from them nearly to the base, no tooth 
or process within; apical half lanceolate-oblong or elongate- 
deltoid-oblong, obtuse, concave, apparently marked with a dark 
