Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 687 
22. A. cognata (N. E. Br.); stem of the only specimen seen 1? 
ft. high, slender, simple, puberulous bifariously or all round on the 
upper part; leaves in 6-7 pairs 21-4 in. apart, erect, sessile, 1-2} 
in. long, 3-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, 
puberulous; umbels 4, lateral and terminal, the lowest shortly 
pedunculate, about 4-flowered ; bracts 1} lin. long, subulate, puberu- 
lous ; pedicels ]—} in. long, adpressed-puberulous ; sepals 2 lin. long, 
¥ lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, pubescent ; corolla-lobes 
apparently ascending-spreading, } in. long, 1} lin. broad, narrowly 
elliptic, acute, glabrous and apparently dingy brownish-green or 
perhaps purplish-tinted on the inner face, with a line of minute 
hairs down the middle of the dull-purplish back; corona-lobes 
arising } lin. up the staminal column, 1} lin. long, ascending- 
spreading apparently dull-purple or purplish-brown, narrowly wing- 
margined at the base, concave-cucullate, resembling a deep spoon- 
bowl, obtuse, the broadly-rounded margins inflexed and meeting at 
the base of the bowl and there produced into erect linear obtuse 
nearly free teeth } lin. long, with a very compressed linear-oblong 
obtuse erect process arising from the bottom of the bowl in front 
of and attaining to the same level as the teeth; staminal column 
1 lin. long; anther appendages roundish-subquadrate, subtruncate, 
inflexed on the truncate style-apex ; very young follicles densely 
white-tomentose. 
Eastern Region: Mount Ayliff Div. ; Insizwa Range, 6500 ft., Schlechter, 
6496 ! 
The specimen from which I describe is in the Herbarium of Dr. Bolus and is 
named A. schizoglossoides, by Dr. Schlechter himself, but is not the type of that 
Species (which see), and differs from it in being taller, with larger and differently 
coloured flowers, and in the corona-lobes not being truncate at the top. 
23. A. flava (N. E. Br.); stems mostly solitary, simple, 7-15 in. 
high, slender, pubescent ; leaves usually in 3-4 (rarely 5-6) distant 
pairs, erect, subsessile, 3-2 in. long, 3-1} lin. broad, linear, acute, 
revolute at the margins, mostly puberulous above and on the midrib 
beneath, occasionally glabrous ; umbel solitary and terminal or 2-3 
sessile umbels crowded together at the apex of the stem, with or 
without a lateral sessile umbel 1-2 in. below, 3—-16-flowered ; bracts 
1-2 lin. long, filiform ; pedicels 21-6 lin. long, pubescent ; sepals 
about 14 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla- 
lobes spreading, 14-21 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, elliptic or elliptic- 
oblong, acute, glabrous on both sides, yellow ; corona-lobes arising 
+ lin. up the staminal column, }—2 lin. long, spreading, or perhaps 
ascending, thin, yellow, elliptic as seen from above, concave-cucul- 
late, resembling a spoon-bowl, not compressed, rather broadly 
flattened with narrow keel-like margins on the back, very obtuse or 
Subemarginate at the apex, with the sides inflexed at the base 
meeting and produced into erect linear obtuse teeth } lin. long or 
less, with an erect much compressed linear-subclavate process 
arising from the bottom of the bowl and equalling the teeth ; 
