Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 691 
produced into distinct teeth, without a tooth or horn in the cavity ; 
follicles 2-2 in. long, about 3 in. in diam., ovoid-lanceolate, tapering 
into a beak and covered with very numerous bristle-like processes, 
white-tomentose all over ; seeds about 21 lin. long and 1 lin. broad, 
oblong-ovate, very convex on one side, concave or flat with a raised 
margin on the other, scrobiculate, dark brown, ochreous at the 
margin. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 5, and in Journ. 
Bot. 1896, 452; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 335. 
Gomphocarpus tomentosus, Burch. Trav. i. 543; Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 9, and xx. Beibl. 51, 38. G. Fruticosus, var. 
tomentosus, K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 322. G. lanatus, 
E. Meyer, Comm, 202 ; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 900; Decne in DC. Prodr. 
vill. 558, 
CENTRAL Recion : Somerset Div. ; near Somerset East, Atherstone, 135! Graaff 
Reinet Div. ; hills near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 378! and in MacOwan and Bolus, 
Herb, Norm. 1317! Aberdeen Div.; hills in the Camdeboo, Drége! at the 
foot of Camdeboo Mountain, Drége, Beaufort West Div. ; flats near Beaufort 
West, Mrs. Barker ! Hopetown Div., Shaw! 
Western Region: Great Namaqualand, Schinz, 22 ! 
KataHari Recon: Griqualand West; Asbestos Mountains, at the Kloof 
Village, Burchell, 2024! Transvaal ; Fourteen Streams, Burtt Davy, 1564! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
28. A. fruticosa (Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 216) ; a shrub 3-10 ft. high ; 
branches erect, puberulous ; leaves more or less ascending ; petiole 
2—4 lin. long ; blade 2-6 in. long, 2—9 lin. broad, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, mucronate, or rarely aristate, cuneate- 
acute at the base, with revolute margins, glabrous or minutely 
puberulous ; umbels pedunculate, lateral at the nodes, racemose, 
6—10-flowered ; peduncles 3—1} in. long, pubescent or puberulous ; 
bracts 3—4 lin. long, linear-subulate, puberulous, deciduous ; pedicels 
3-? in. long, puberulous ; sepals 14-2 lin. long, lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, pubescent or puberulous ; corolla-lobes reflexed, 3}—4 lin. long, 
2 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous on both sides, usually 
but not always ciliate along one margin ; corona-lobes arising about 
¥ lin. above the base of the staminal column and reaching its summit, 
erect, compressed-cucullate, subrectangular in side view, with the 
apical angles of the sides produced into recurving narrowly falcate 
teeth, rising considerably above the rest of the lobe, their tips 
incurved towards each other ; margins of the sides narrowly winged 
outside; no tooth or horn within; follicles 2-3 in, long, ovoid, 
tapering into a beak, minutely tomentose and beset with bristles, 
which are nearly or quite glabrous. Lam. Encycl. i. 283 and Lil. ii. 
323, t. 175, fig. 2; Thunb. Prodr. 47, in Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. 
(1805) 507, Fl. Cup. ed. 2, ii. 154, and ed. Schultes, 234; Ait. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 1, i. 308; Pers. Syn. i. 276; Willd. Sp. Pl. 1271, and 
Enum. Hort. Berol. 279 ; Schlechter in Engl.. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 
7; Journ, Bot. 1896, 451, and Ann. Naturhist. Hofm. Wien, xv. 67, 
Rand in Journ, Bot. 1903, 337; N. E. Br. in Dyer, fi st gis A 
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