686 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Asclepias. 
subulate ; pedicels 3-7 lin. long, slightly pubescent; sepals 1-1} 
lin. long, }—2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent ; corolla- 
lobes spreading, 14-2 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, ovate, notched at 
the obtusely pointed apex, thinly pubescent and often more or less 
deeply stained with dull purple-brown on the back, glabrous and 
greenish-yellow or whitish on the inner face, very minutely ciliate 
on one margin; corona-lobes arising close to the base of the 
staminal column and twice as long as it, bright orange-yellow, 
compressed-cucullate, subtruncate, with the inner apical angles 
produced into short erect obtuse teeth and the dorsal apex 
into a long linear channelled erectly spreading or recurved point 
14-1} lin. long, the cucullate part }-} lin. long; staminal 
column 3—1 lin. long ; anther-appendages short, broadly rounded, 
inflexed over the margin of the truncate style-apex ; follicles 
solitary, or if in pairs sometimes abruptly incurved at the base 
so as to cross and then widely diverge, 2}-3 in. long, § in. 
thick, terete-fusiform, tapering into a long acute beak, smooth, 
glabrous. N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 345; Rand in 
Journ. Bot. 1903, 200. Gomphocarpus aureus, Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45,17, and xx. Beibl. 51, 28.  Schizoglosswm 
pedunculatum, Schlechter in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxv. 50, 
and Journ. Bot. 1896, 419. 
Var. 8: vittata (N. E. Br.) ; corona-lobes whitish or pale yellow, with a brown 
or dark-coloured dorsal stripe, the point produced 2-1} lin. beyond the cucullate 
per ne schizoglossoides, Schlechter in Engl. Jahr, xviii. Beibl. 45, 21, 
not elsewhere, 
Coast Recion : Cape Div. ; between Claremont and Kenilworth Race Course, 
Schlechter, 351! 
KanaHart Recion: Transvaal ; grassy plains around Barberton, Galpin, 580! 
Waterval Boven, Rogers! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock ! near Johannesburg, Rand, 
703! 1042! Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6046 | Modderfontein, Conrath, 994! near 
Rustenberg, Miss Pegler, 954! Zoutpans Berg, at Fuschgewacht, Miss Leendertz, 
830! Malelane, Rogers, 701! Matebe Valley, Holub! Mooi River, Burke ! 
Magalies Berg, Burke! Carolina district, Burtt Davy, 2985! Var. B: Basutoland, 
Cooper, 932! Orange River Colony; Bethlehem, Richardson! Transvaal ; 
Saddleback Mountain near Barberton, 3000-4000 ft., Galpin, 500 ! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; plains near Newcastle, Schlechter, 3409! Var. B: 
Natal; Biggars Berg, 4000 ft., Wood, 4555! near Newcastle, Wood, 5892! 
Swaziland ; between Carolina and Mbabane (Embabaan), 5000 ft., Bolus, 12152! 
Embabaan, Miller ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
The plant found by Dr. Schlechter between Claremont and Kenilworth was 
doubtless introduced among ballast or products brought from the Trans I 
have examined a flower from the type of Schizoglossum pedunculatum, Schlechter, 
and find that the corona-lobes have been wrongly described, they (and other parts 
of the plant) are identical with those of Asclepias awrea. The var. vittala 
distinct from var. brevicuspis, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 255 (from Tropical 
Africa), which has the corona-lobes entirely yellow and does not differ from the 
type except that the tips of the lobes are shorter than usual, but in this character 
they vary considerably. According to Miss Pegler the tuber is eaten by the 
natives who call it ‘‘ carrot.” 
