Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 697 
in. high, or rarely taller, with 1-3 simple or branched stems, puberulous 
with usually rust-coloured or golden-brown minute curved hairs, or 
sometimes the leaves and corolla nearly or quite glabrous ; leaves in 
4-8 pairs ; petiole }—1 lin. long ; blade 3-24 in. long, }—1 in. broad, 
linear-oblong, lanceolate, broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, acute or 
obtuse and mucronate, broadly rounded to slightly cordate at the 
base, often somewhat crisped at the scabrous margins; umbels 2-6 
to a branch, rarely solitary, lateral and terminal, racemose or sub- 
corymbose, 5—10-flowered ; peduncles 3-23 in. long; bracts few, 
1-3 lin. long, filiform or setaceous ; pedicels unequal, }—1 in. long ; 
sepals 17-24 lin. long, }—3 lin. broad at the base, tapering to 
a very acute point; corolla-lobes rotately spreading or somewhat 
reflexed, 24-3} lin. long, 13-2 lin. broad, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 
minutely notched at the subacute point, glabrous on the inner face, 
brilliant green (Wood) ; corona-lobes arising 3—? lin. up the staminal 
column, complicate, subdeltoid or obliquely, or somewhat deltoidly 
subquadrangular viewed sideways, top margin sloping downwards 
and outwards, about 1 lin. high, 1}-14 lin. broad, narrowly rim- 
margined at the truncate base, in dried flowers with the top margins 
horizontally spreading, forming a broad flat rim or margin, without 
a cavity, but fissured between the very acute or slightly hooked 
teeth into which the inner apical angles are produced ; staminal 
column 2-24 lin. long; anther-appendages small, suborbicular, 
obtuse, erect, inflexed at their tips on the rim of the truncate style- 
apex ; fruit about 3-3} in. long, }—2 in. thick, lanceolate-fusiform, 
obtusely beaked, with 4 longitudinal serrate wings, rusty puberulous 
when young ; seeds about 2} lin. long, 11-1} lin. broad, thick, with 
incurved margins, forming a deep groove on one side, very convex 
on the other, rugose all over with minute tubercles and thin ridges, 
dark brown. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 452, and Ann. Naturhist. 
Hofmus. Wien, xv. 67. Pachycarpus? viridiflorus, E. Meyer, Comm. 
214; Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 545 (by error 445) ; 
Krauss in Flora, 1844, 827. Xysmalobium viridiflorum, Dietr. Syn. 
Pl. ii. 903. Gomphocarpus viridiflorus, Decne in DO. Prodr. viii. 
561. G. marginatus, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 8, 
not of Deene. 
Var. 8, Caleeolus (N. E. Br.); leaves 3-3 in. long, 4-1} in. broad, ovate- 
lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute; corolla-lobes 3-44 lin. long, 2-24 
lin. broad, green; corona-lobes usually shaped as in the type, with a distinct 
fissure-like or open-mouthed cavity extending to half-way down, not solid to the 
top, usually with the top margins recurved forming a rim, but occasionally sub- 
quadrate in side view and truncate at the top, with the margins erect and slightly 
gaping, usually marked with violet on the basal rim ; follicles 4-4} in. long, 3 in. 
or more thick, lanceolate-fusiform, about equally tapering at both ends, with 
4 serrate wings, puberulous. A. Calceolus, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 312, 338. 
Gomphocarpus marginatus, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx, Beibl. 51, 33, not of 
Var. 7, sordide (N. E. Br.); plant as in var. 8; corolla-lobes 4 lin. long, 
24 lin. broad, closely veined with dark purple-brown on a green ground ; corona- 
lobes subquadrate in side view, top margins truncate, not recurved so as to 
