692 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [ Asclepias. 
iv. i. 330. A. glabra, Mill. Gard. Dict. ed..8, no. 12. A. salicifolia, 
Salisb. Prodr. 150. A. crassifolia, Linn. ew Decne in DC. Prodr. 
viii. 572. Gomphocarpus fruticosus, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc, i. 38 ; 
Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 80; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 87; Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. i. 849; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 143; Decne in Ann. Se. 
Nat. sér. 2, ix. 324, and in DOC. Prodr. viii. 557; Reichb. Fl. 
Germ. xvii. t. 1071; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 
7; xx. Beibl. 51, 31; Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 200.  G. frutescens 
(error for fruticosus), E. Meyer, Comm. 202; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 900 partly ; 
Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 543 (by error 443). 
Sourn Arrica : without locality; Herb. Linneus! Herb. Miller ! Thunberg! 
Masson! Niven, 23! Sieber, 138! Pappe ! 
Coast Rearon: Cape Div. ; Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 590! Orange Kloof, 
Wolley Dod, 3286! Oudtshoorn Div. ; near the Olifants River, Thom, 185 ; 
Riversdale Div. ; near the Gauritz River, Arauss, 1258 (ex Meisner); near 
Riversdale, Penther, 832. George Div. ; near Silver River, Penther, 812. Knysna 
Div. ; near Knysna, Penther, 825 (all ex Schlechter), Queenstown Div. ; near 
Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 10! 846! plains near Queenstown, Galpin, 1699! ; 
Centra Recon: Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bowie! 
Bolus, 195! Colesberg Div. ; near Colesberg, Knobel, 7 ! 
Western Recon : Little Namaqualand ; by the Orange River near Varleptpram, 
Drége, 3045b! and without precise locality, Wyley ! 
Katanart ReGion: Griqualand West; Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1806! 
Orange River Colony; Bethlehem, Richardson! Leeuw Spruit and Vredefort, 
Barrett Hamilton! Pargs, 4500 ft., Rogers, 802! Harrismith, Sankey, 241! 
Transvaal : near Pretoria, Kirk, 29! Miss Leendertz, 73! Wilms, 950! Burtt Davy, 
2161! 2184! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 950! Platsand, Rogers, 629! Irene, Burtt 
Davy, 741! Fourteen Streams, Burtt Davy, 1565! Crocodile River, Burtt Davy, 
235! near Johannesburg, Rand, 859! 1127 ! Ommaney ! Modderfontein, Conrath, 
996! Pilgrims Rest, Greenstock ! 3 
Eastern Recion: Natal; near Greytown, Wilms, 2142! near Ladysmith, 
Wood, 4755! and without precise locality, Gueinzius ! 
Also in North and Tropical Africa, the Mascarene Isles, Madeira, Canaries, 
Arabia and South Europe, perhaps naturalised in some of the localities. Specimens 
with ovoid or ellipsoid shortly and acutely.pointed follicles are probably of hybrid 
origin between this species and A. physocarpa. 
29. A. physocarpa (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 8) ; 
plant up to 6 ft. high; stems branched, whitish-pubescent or sub- 
tomentose on the young parts; leaves ascending or spreading ; 
petiole 2-3 lin. long; blade 2-4 in. long ; 3-10 lin. broad, linear- 
lanceolate or lanceolate, very acute, mucronulate, acute at the base, 
.glabrous on both sides or with a very minute scanty pubescence 
above and often on the midrib beneath ; umbels lateral, racemose, 
5-10-flowered ; peduncles }~13 in. long, whitish-pubescent ; bracts 
11-2 lin. long, subulate or filiform, very deciduous; pedicels 
3-1 in. long, puberulous ; sepals 1}—2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuml 
nate, pubescent ; corolla-lobes reflexed, 3-4 lin. long, 2-23 lin. 
broad, subobtuse, ciliate along one margin, otherwise glabrous, 
white ; corona-lobes arising }-} up the staminal column and nearly 
or quite reaching to its top, 1}—1} lin. long, complicate, subquadrate 
in the side view, with the apical angles of the inflexed sides shortly 
