Aselepias. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 693 
produced above the rest of the lobe into a broad obliquely sub- 
truncate or subfalcate lobule, no tooth within; staminal column 
2-2} lin. long; anther-appendages transverse, somewhat semi- 
circular, partly inflexed over the margin of the depressed-truncate 
style-apex ; follicles solitary, inflated, subglobose or obliquely ovoid 
13-2} in. in diam., puberulous and covered with long soft glabrous 
bristles. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453 ; Engl. Jahrb. xxxix, 
242, and Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 68 ; N. E. Br. in Dyer, 
Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 328. A. fruticosa, Mill. Dict. ed. 8, no. 13, 
not of Linn. Gomphocarpus physocarpus, E. Meyer, Comm. 202; 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 900 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 558 ; K. Schum. in 
Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 236, and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 322 ; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 9 and 20; Neub. 
Gart. Mag. 1894, 73 ; Wood, Natal Pl. iii. 19, ¢. 217; De Wild. Ic. 
Hort. Then. iii. t. 88. G. Sruticosus, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1628, not of 
R. Br. G. frutescens (error for Jruticosus), Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 900 
partly. 
Sourm Arrica : without locality, Forbes, 43! Herb. Miller ! 
Coast Recton : Worcester Div. ; near Worcester, Cooper, 1622! 2715! Uiten- 
hage Div. ; by the Zwartkops River, Niven, 164! Zeyher, 524! Albany Div. ; near 
Glenfilling, Drége! Kloofs near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 200! Bathurst Div. ; 
Trapps Valley, Miss Daly, 689 ! Komgha Div. ; Kei River Valley, Xrook, 813 ! 
CenTRAL REGION : Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, Mac Owan ! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; near Kentani, 1000 ft., Miss Pegler, 295! 
Griqualand East ; around Clydesdale, Tyson, 2016! Pondoland, Bachmann, 1109! 
1110! Natal; near Durban, Cooper, 2716 ! Wood, 39! Umkomanzi River Valley, 
Krook, 790 (ex Schlechter), Inanda, Wood, 33! Port Shepstone, Rogers, 533! 
and without precise locality, Gerrard, 439! Sutherland! Sanderson! Gueinzius ! 
Delagoa Bay, Langley ! 
Also in Tropical Africa and the Cape Verd Islands. 
The corona-lobes vary in tle shape of the tooth or lobule at the apex of the 
inflexed sides and sometimes approach A. fruticosa in this particular, but the 
inflated follicles readily distinguish it. 
30. A. crinita (N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 352); 
stem erect, probably 2 ft. or more high, very much branched, 
glabrous below, puberulous above, at length becoming hollow ; 
leaves opposite or 3-4 in a whorl, scarcely petiolate, 4-6 in. long, 
about 3 lin. broad, the lower lanceolate, the upper linear, all 
acuminate, revolute at the margins, puberulous when young, be- 
coming glabrous ; umbels lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, shorter 
than the leaves, 4—6-flowered ; peduncles rather stout ; pedicels 
about # in. long ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous ; corolla 
scarcely exceeding the calyx (but represented as twice as long in 
the figure), white; lobes very spreading-recurved, ovate-oblony, 
obtuse ; corona-lobes erect, crenate at the apex, at least in the 
dried state ; follicle (solitary ?), ascending, ovoid-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, covered with green bristles. Gomphocarpus crinitus, Bertoloni 
in Mem. Accad. Scienze Istit. Bologna, 1851, iii. 253, t. 20, fig. 1; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pl. Ost-Afr. C. 322. 
