Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). 681 
mid-line ; staminal column {}-1! lin, long; anther-appendages 
transversely oblong, emarginate or slightly bilobed, erect, not 
exceeding the margin of the truncate style-apex ; follicles solitary, 
erect from a recurved pedicel, 23-31 in. long, } in. thick, terete- 
fusiform, tapering into a beak, smooth, glabrous; seeds about 2} 
lin. long, 1} lin. broad, ovate, rather broadly margined, with minute 
tubercles and short linear ridges on both sides, brown. Lagarinthus 
Jflexuosus, E. Meyer, Comm. 207 ; Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 
ii. 1843, 544 (by error 444); Krauss in Flora, 1844, 826. Gompho- 
carpus flexuosus, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 901; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 
559. G. fragrans, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 30. 
EASTERN REGION: Natal; between Umzimkulu River and Umkomaas liver, 
Drege, 4965! near Durban, Gerrard, 514! Sanderson, 258! Peddie! near Umlaas 
River, Krauss, 348! Inanda, Wood, 280! near Howick, Wood, 5378! Clairmont, 
Wood, 8269! between Pietermaritzburg and Greytown, Wilms, 2189! hills near 
Pinetown, Schlechter, 3168, and without precise locality (in fruit only), Gerrard, 
1292! Zululand; Ungoya, Wylie in Herb. Wood, 5680! and without precise 
locality, Mrs. McKenzie ! 
By different collectors the flowers are stated to be ‘‘ pale purple and white or 
brown and white,” ‘‘lilac and white or pinkish-white,” ‘‘lilac-grey or brownish- 
grey,” all mentioning 2 colours as if they were variable, and they are said to be 
fragrant. I have not seen the type of Gomphocarpus fragrans, but the specimens 
so named by Dr. Schlechter which I have examined, do not differ in any way 
from Asclepias flexuosa. 
16. A. brevicuspis (Schlechter in Eng]. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 5) ; 
plant 43-12 in. high, branching at the base ; stems often decumbent 
at the base, unifariously pubescent ; leaves 1{—3 in. long, }—2} lin. 
broad, linear, acute, narrowed or rounded (rarely hastate) at the 
base into a short petiole, glabrous on both sides or scabrous on the 
midrib beneath, rarely scabrous on the margins ; umbels solitary 
and terminal or very rarely 2-3 to a branch and racemose, pelt 
(usually 6-7-) flowered; peduncles }—2} in. long, unifariously 
pubescent ; pedicels 5~7 lin. long, unifariously puberulous ; sepals 
13-21 lin. long, 3-2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or 
pubescent and with or without short cilia; corolla-lobes very 
spreading, 3-4 lin. long, 1}-1% lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
glabrous on the back, with a minutely papillate inner surface, 
sometimes minutely ciliate on one margin, lilac (Wood) ; corona-lobes 
arising at the base and reaching to the top of the staminal column, 
1}-2 lin. long, linear-oblong viewed sideways and 3-3 lin. broad 
across the top, nearly straight, slightly curved or slightly gibbous 
above the middle on the back, tapering into the column at the base, 
somewhat sinuate-truncate or with a concave notch at the top, with 
the inner apical angles rounded and the dorsal apex shortly acute, 
not produced into an erect subulate point, with an obliquely trans- 
verse or decurrent keel or narrow wing on each side; staminal 
column 13-2 lin. long; anther-appendages oblong-ovate or sub- 
orbicular, obtuse, erect, with their tips inflexed over the crenate 
margin of the 3-1 lin.-broad style-apex ; pollen-carriers seated below 
