Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 695 
petioles up to 1} lin. long; blade 1-2 in. long, 1-14 in. broad, 
varying from oblong-lanceolate to oblong, elliptic- oblong, or 
elliptic, acute or obtuse, apiculate, rounded or subcordate at the 
base, flat, coriaceous, rather rigid, sometimes pubescent, but more 
usually glabrous on both sides with the exception of the midrib 
beneath, whitish, especially beneath, with green veins (Burchell) ; 
umbels 1-7 to a branch, velvety-tomentose or villous, pedunculate, 
lateral at the nodes, racemose or subcorymbose at the apex, 
12-30-flowered ; peduncles 14-10 lin. long; bracts 3-4 lin. long, 
filiform or lanceolate, deciduous ; pedicels #-1 in. long; sepals 
reflexed, 2-2} lin. long, 3-1} lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
villous or tomentose; corolla-lobes reflexed, often with up-curved 
tips, 25-35 lin. long, 13-2 lin. broad, ovate, obtusely pointed, 
villous or pubescent on the back, very minutely puberulous or 
glabrous on the inner face, white, often purplish on the back; 
corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column and 
as long, yellowish, 13-1? lin. long, cucullate, oblique at the 
top, highest at the rounded apex, margins incurved and con- 
tiguous, produced into a short acute or obtuse tooth at the top, 
no tooth or process within, in the dried state a ridge or frill extends 
all round on the back below the middle; staminal column 1} lin. 
long; anther-appendages broadly ovate or suborbicular, obtuse, 
inflexed over the truncate 5-angled style-apex ; anther-wings very 
prominent and angular at the base; follicles 2-27 in. long, about 
} in. thick, ovoid, tapering into an obtuse beak, pubescent and 
thinly beset with soft spines or processes 3—4 lin. long ; seeds 24 lin. 
long, 14-1} lin. broad, oblong-ovate, concave on one side, convex on 
the other, somewhat reticulately rugose. A. cancellata, Burm. f. 
Prodr. Cap. 7. A. pubescens, Linn. Mant. ii. 215, as to description 
(excluding synonymy) and specimen in Herb. Linn.; Lam. Eneyel. 
i, 280; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1263; Pers. Syn. i. 275. A. arborescens, 
Linn. Mant. ii. 216; Lam. Encycl. i. 283; Thunb. Prodr. 47; in 
Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805), 509; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 156, 
and ed. Schultes, 235 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 308; Willd. Sp. Pl. 
i. 1271, and Enum. Hort. Berol, 278; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 25, 
t. 50; Pers. Syn. i. 276; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 5, 
and Journ. Bot. 1896, 451. A. arborea, Salisb. Prodr. 150. A. 
crassifolia, Hort. Paris. ex Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 572. A. vestita, 
Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4106, not of Hook. and Arn. Gomphocarpus 
arborescens, B. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 38 ; Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, 
ii. 79 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 86; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 849 ; Reichb. 
Mag. Bot. t. 28 ; E. Meyer, Comm. 201 ; @. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 143 ; 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 900; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 557; Krauss in 
Flora, 1844, 826.—Apocynum frutescens, &c., Burm. Rar. Afr. Pl. 
Dee. 2, 31, t. 13. Apocynum radice longa, &c., Burm. l. c. 32, t. 14, 
Jig. 1. 
SourH Arrica: without locality ; Oldenburg! Nelson! Herb, Linneus! Niven, 
24! Forster! and cultivated specimen ! 
Coast Region: Cape Div. ; hills around Cape Town, Thunberg! Burchell, 
