Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 685 
20. A. eminens (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453); plant 
5-10 in. high, branching close to the ground; branches usually 
more or less decumbent, bifariously pubescent, with internodes 
1-1 in. long ; leaves ascending, usually unilateral ; petiole 1-3 lin. 
long ; blade 1-4} in. long, 1-2} lin. broad above the basal auricles, 
linear, acute, shortly hastate, truncate or rounded at the base, 
subcoriaceous, thickened along the flat or slightly recurved margins, 
glabrous on both sides or thinly setulose-scabrous on the midrib 
beneath ; umbels solitary on each branch, terminal, pedunculate, 
3—6-flowered ; peduncle }—23 in. long, pubescent on one side ; bracts 
3-5 lin. long, 1—} lin. broad, linear, acute, glabrous or sparsely 
setulose-scabrous, deciduous ; pedicels 1% in. long, pubescent on one 
side ; sepals 23-4 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate, acute, glabrous or with a few hairs ; corolla-lobes very 
spreading or reflexed, 4}—7 lin. long, 13-3 lin. broad, lanceolate, 
acute or subobtusely pointed, glabrous on the back, minutely 
papillate on the inner face; corona-lobes arising 3-1} lin. up and 
decurrent to the base of the staminal column, and overtopping it by 
nearly or quite } of their length, 3-5 lin. long, 3—} lin. broad and 
of nearly equal breadth throughout across the side, compressed- 
complicate, with a small triangular cup-like mouth, erect, recurved- 
spreading from a little below the apex, -and, viewed sideways, 
dorsally produced into a short deltoid point } lin. long ; staminal 
column 23~31 lin. long ; anther-appendages elliptic or suborbicular, 
obtuse, inflexed over the style-apex; anther-wings } lin. broad, 
obtusely rounded at the lower half; follicles 33-4} in. long, about 
4 in. thick, fusiform, tapering into a long acute beak, smooth, 
glabrous. Schlechter in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 67; 
N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 351; Rand in Journ. Bot. 
1903, 337. Gomphocarpus eminens, Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 60, t. 
195 ; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb, xviii. Beibl. 45, 18, and xx. Beibl. 
51, 29. 
KaLaHari Recion: Orange River Colony ; Sevenfuntein, Burke! Transvaal ; 
near Lydenburg, Wilms, 944! near Pretoria, Burtt Davy, 760! 826! 3060! 
Miss Leendertz! near Ermelo, Burtt Davy, 957! Modderfontein, Conrath, 
993! plains around Barberton, 2800 ft., Galpin, 699! near Johannesburg, Rand, 
1008 ! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock ! 
Eastern ReEGIon: Natal ; near Estcourt, 4000 ft., Wood, 3477 ! near Colenso, 
Krook, 823 (ex Schlechter). Zululand ; on dry plains, Gerrard, 1291! Swaziland ; 
Mbabane, Miller ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
21. A. aurea (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455); stem 9-15 
in. high, simple or occasionally branched at the base, rather slender, 
sometimes zigzag, puberulous along 2 lines ; internodes 3-2 in. long ; 
leaves ascending-spreading, 1}-3} in. long, } lin. broad, linear- 
filiform, glabrous ; umbels 3-6, long-pedunculate, racemose or the 
upper subcorymbose, 3-7-flowered ; peduncles 13-5} in. long, 
slender, with a puberulous line on one side ; bracts 3-1} lin. long, 
