698 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). | Asclepias. 
form a rim, not or but slightly produced into teeth at the inner top angles, with a 
fissure-like cavity extending to the base on the inner side, marked with violet at 
the top and on the basal rim. 
Sour AFrrica : without locality, Masson! Thunberg ! 
Coast Reaion: Riversdale Div. ; near Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6674 | 
George Div. ; near George, Prior! near Silver River, Penther, 828 (ex Schlechter). 
Uitenhage Div. ; Zuurberg Range, Drége! Bathurst Div. ; Kaffir Drift Miltary 
Post, Burchell, 3771! Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, Bolton ! MacOwan, 661! 
Galpin, 2903! Misses Daly and Sole, 325! Schénland, 343 ! and without precise 
locality, Hutton! Mrs. Barber, 115! Bowker! East London Div. ; near East: 
London, Wood in Herb. Galpin, 3362! Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, 2000 ft., 
' Flanagan, 372! 
CENTRAL REGION : Somerset Div. ; Somerset East, Bowker ! 
Katanart Recion: Var.-.8: Transvaal; open veld north of Johannesburg, 
Rand, 966 ! Jeppestown Ridge, Johannesburg, (ilsillan in Herb, Galpin, 6148 | near 
Rustenburg, Miss Pegler! Vlakfuntein, near Carolina, Burtt Davy, 2969 ! Pilgrims 
Rest, Greenstock | near Pretoria, Burtt Davy, 3058 | 8233! Miss Leendertz, 505 ! 
Schlechter, 3588 ; Modderfontein, Conrath, 998 ! ; ; 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 4! 294! Kentani, Miss 
Pegler, 656! Natal; at the foot of Table Mountain, Avrauss, 470 (not dissected, 
probably = var. 8)! Var. 8: Griqualand East ; Mount Malowe, Z'yson, 3113 ! 
Natal; Dargle Farm, Fannin, 12! Inanda, Wood, 350! near Charlestown, Wood, 
5643 ! near Krantz Kloof, Schlechter, 3195! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 
1295! Sanderson, 241! 514! Mrs. K. Saunders, 8! Swaziland ; near Mbabane 
een) Bolus, 12119! Var. y: Transkei; Kentani, 1000 ft., A/iss Pegler, 
As stated by Dr. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 6, the name 
Gomphocarpus marginatus has been erroneously applied to this plant in many 
Herbaria, The flowers of the type and var. sordida look so very distinct in size 
and appearance that they might perhaps be regarded as different species, but they 
seem quite connected by the var. Calceolus, which sometimes (Gerrard, 1295, 
Fannin, 12) also has subquadrate corona-lobes. 
35. A. cultriformis (Harv. ex Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 
Beibl. 45, 31); stems 6~12 in. high, simple, hairy ; leaves ascending, 
1-2 in. long with the short petiole, 3-7 lin. broad, oblong: linear, 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, rounded to subcordate at the 
base, thinly covered with long spreading hairs on both sides, ciliate 
with shorter hairs; umbel solitary and terminal or 2-3, the lower 
lateral at the nodes, 3-10-flowered ; peduncle 4—1 in. long, hairy to 
subglabrous; bracts 3 lin. long, linear-subulate, ciliate or hairy ; 
pedicels 4-9 lin. long, more or less hairy ; sepals 3—4 lin. long, 1-1} 
lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, hairy ; corolla-lobes ascending-spreading, 
perhaps slightly incurved, 54-6} lin. long, 34-5 lin. broad, overs 
acute, sometimes with recurved margins, more or less hairy on the 
back, pubescent to densely white-hairy at the tips and along the 
margins on the otherwise glabrous inner face, green, or sometimes 
apparently dark dull-purple-brown ; corona-lobes arising 4 lin. up 
the staminal column, erect, white, with a violet spot on the back 
near the apex and more or less violet at the base, 1-2 lin. long am 
about as broad across the side, compressed cucullate, subquadrate 10 
side view, truncate with a rim at the base, truncate to very 
slightly concave and somewhat sloping outwards along the top, . 
