Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). 683 
or ascending, 4—5 lin. long, 14-2} lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate or 
broadly ovate-lanceolate, subacute, reflexed along the margins, 
glabrous on the back, minutely papillate-puberulous on the inner 
face ; corona-lobes arising at the base of and equalling the staminal 
column, 14—2 lin. long, erect, distant, alternating with a short flat 
broadly rounded lobule at their base, cucullate, oblong in outline, 
tapering into the column at the base, scarcely broader at the 
oblique apex than elsewhere, 3—1 lin. broad, viewed sideways, with 
the top margins slightly ascending to the dorsal apex, not pro- 
duced into teeth at inner apical angles, which are much infolded 
forming a somewhat boat-shaped concavity on the inner face 
and when dorsally flattened in drying boat-shaped in out- 
line, without oblique keels or wings on the sides, but with a 
transverse shelf-like flap or fold within a little below the apex ; 
staminal column about 1% lin. long; anther appendages rather 
large, elliptic-ovate or transverse, with their obtuse tips inflexed over 
the margin of the style-apex, which is variable in size and con- 
cavity ; anther-wings rather long and broadly rounded. Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453. Lagarinthus navicularis, E. Meyer, Comm. 
204 ; Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 543 (by error 443) ; 
Krauss in Flora, 1844, 826. Gomphocarpus navicularis, Dietr. Syn. 
Pl. ii. 901 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 559 ; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xx. Beibl. 51, 34. 
Var. 8, compressidens (N. E. Br.); corona-lobes shorter than the staminal 
column, with a broad laterally compressed obtusely rounded tooth within, instead 
of the transverse flap ; otherwise as in the type. 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Krauss (ex Meisner). 
King Williamstown Div. ; between Chalumna River and Buffalo River, 1500 ft., 
Drége! Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton! East London Div. ; grassy slopes near East 
London, 100 ft., Wood in Herb. Galpin, 1995! 3378! Var. 8: Cathcart Div. ; 
between Windvogel Mountain and the Zwartkei River, Drége ! 
CrnTRAL Recion: Var. 8: Cradock Div., Cooper, 1284. 
This much resembles A. brevicuspis, Schlechter, but it is at once distinguished 
by the corona-lobes. 
19. A. gibba (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 7) ; plant 
3-1 ft. high, branching at the base ; branches ascending or spreading, 
compressed, bifariously pubescent or subhispid ; leaves shortly 
petiolate, 34 in. long, 3-2} (rarely 4-6) lin. broad, linear, acute at 
the apex, hastate, truncate or cuneate at the base, flat or with 
revolute smooth (rarely scabrous) margins, glabrous on both sides 
or with a few hairs on the midrib beneath ; umbels solitary, terminal 
on the main branches, pedunculate, usually 3-6- (rarely 8-10-) 
flowered ; peduncles }~3 in. long, pubescent ; bracts 13-4 lin. long, 
subulate ; pedicels 4-10 lin. long, puberulous and often with some 
longer spreading hairs on one side ; sepals 2-3 lin. long, $-} lin. 
broad, lanceolate or lanceolate-attenuate, acute, ciliate, more or less 
hairy ; corolla-lobes very spreading or somewhat reflexed, 3-4} lin. 
long, 12-2 lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous 
