684 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Asclepias. 
on the back, with the inner face most minutely papillate, probably 
having a velvety sheen, brownish-green (Wood) ; corona-lobes arising 
at the base of the staminal column, erect, 2-3 lin. long, complicate, 
much compressed, with a semicircular bump on the back near the 
middle, having a fold or keel extending obliquely downwards from 
its base to the base of the inner margin, truncate at the top of 
the infolded sides, which scarcely exceed the 13-2} lin.long staminal 
column, dorsal apex produced into an erect straight subulate point 
4-1 lin. long; anther-appendages ovate, subacute or obtuse, erect, 
the tips inflexed: over the margin of the excavated style-apex ; 
follicles about 3 in. long and } in. thick, fusiform, tapering into a 
beak, smooth, very narrowly 6-winged on the beaked part, glabrous ; 
seeds 2 lin. long, deeply concave on one side, very convex on the 
other, both sides sprinkled with minute tubercles or short linear 
ridges, dark brown with a paler wrinkled margin and darker 
tubercles. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 452, and Ann. Naturhist. 
Hofmus. Wien, xv. 67. A. oxytropis, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 
454. Lagarinthus gibbus, E. Meyer, Comm. 204. Gomphocarpus 
gibbus, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 900; Decne in DO. Prodr. vii. 559 ; 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 8, and xx. Beibl. 51, 31. 
G. oxytropis, Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 1848, i. 259. 
Var. 8, media (N. E. Br.) ; corona-lobes 3-4 lin. long, with the complicate part 
distinctly (but shortly) overtopping the staminal column, curved but scarcely 
gibbous on the back and without an oblique fold or keel upon the sides ; otherwise 
as in the type. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Thunberg! 
Coast Recion : Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.- 
Afr., 1318 | Bedford Div. ; near Bedford, Miss Nicol, 101! Stockenstrom Div. ; 
Kat Berg, Hutton ! Galpin, 1732! Miss Sole, 372! Queenstown Div. ; near Shiloh, 
Ecklon, 28. Komgha Div. ; hills near Komgha, Flanagan, 397 ! British Kaffraria, 
Cooper, 471! 
CrentRAL REcion: Somerset Div. ; on the Bosch Berg, 3000-4800 ft., Mae 
Owan, 1992! Aliwal North Div. ; Witte Bergen, Drege, 4973! Molteno Div. ; 
Broughton, near Molteno, Flanagan, 1615 ! 
KaLaHart Reaion: Orange River Colony; Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, 
Barrett Hamilton | Basutoland, Cooper, 2725! Transvaal; near Pretoria, MeLea 
in Herb. Bolus, 5707! near Ermelo, Burtt Davy, 956! 957 b! near Standerton, 
Burtt Davy, 895! 3084! Modderfontein, Conrath, 992! Var. B: Orange River 
Colony ; Caledon River, Burke! Besters Vlei near Witzies Hoek, Bolus, 8113! 
Transvaal; Magalies Berg, Burke! Zeyher, 1158! Yster Spruit, Nelson, 323! 
near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4155! Burtt Davy, 673! 795! 2131! Miss Leendertz, 
328! near Nylstrom, Burtt Davy, 2045! Linokana and Matebe Valley, Holub ! 
Rustenburg, Miss Pegler ! 
Eastern Recion, at 2000-4500 ft.: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker 
(Mrs. Barber), 92! Tembuland; Bazeia, Baur, 305! Pondoland ; between 
Umtata River and St. John’s River, Drége, 4967! Griqualand East ; _, 
Clydesdale, Tyson, 1656! Natal; various localities, Wood, 4064 ! Sanderson, 164! 
Mrs, Clark! Fannin, 46! Wilms, 2140! Sutherland | Krook, 834 (ex Schlechter). 
Swaziland ; between Carolina and Mbabane, 5300 ft., Bolus, 12151! Var. R: 
Zululand, Gerrard, 1291 bis! Swaziland: Bremersdorp, Burtt Davy, 3009! $277! 
The variety Bis probably a hybrid between A. gi Schlechter, and A. eminens, 
ella Fates 2 des ae 
