Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 699 
angles of the sides produced into long subulate acute teeth, erect 
or directed over the backs of the anther-appendages, minutely 
puberulous within with a compressed deltoid acute or trans- 
verse truncate process not reaching to the top of the lobe; 
staminal column 2-23 lin. long, with a truncate collar under each 
corona-lobe ; anther-appendages broadly ovate, obtuse, inflexed on 
the truncate style-apex. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 26, 
and in Journ. Bot. 1896, 451; Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 340. 
Gomphocarpus cultriformis, Harv. ex Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. 
Beibl. 45, 31, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 451. 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; Elandspruit Mountains, 7000 ft., Schlechter, 
4005! Modderfontein, Conrath, 1002! High Veld near Belfast, 6500 ft., Bolus! 
at the Beacon, Vlakfontein, Burtt Davy, 2970! near Johannesburg, Rand, 1126 ! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 831! Natal ; Dargle Farm, 
Fannin, 85! Shafton, Howick, Mrs. Hutton! Inanda, Wood, 405! and in Herb. 
Natal, 381! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 291! Zululand, Gerrard, 
1296! Swaziland; near Mbabane (Embabaan), 4700 ft., Bolus, 12118! Burtt 
Davy, 2758! : 
36. A. rara (N. E. Br.); stem solitary, erect, 6-8 in. high, 
simple, rather densely and softly villous, at least above; leaves 
in 5-10 pairs; petiole 3-3 lin. long; blade 3-2 in. long, 1-1 in. 
broad, lowest usually ovate and obtuse, upper linear-lanceolate, 
narrowly oblong-lanceolate or elongate-ovate, acute, cordate or 
subcordate at the base, thinly pilose or subvillous on both sides 
or on the midrib only, ciliate; umbels usually 3-4, lateral at 
the nodes and terminal, racemosely arranged, or sometimes 1 and 
lateral, with the stem prolonged beyond it, about 7-flowered ; 
peduncles 3-13 in. long, villous; pedicels 1—} in. long, villous ; 
sepals 1-1} lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, villous ; corolla-lobes reflexed-spreading, 24-2} lin. long, 
13-2 lin. broad, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute, thinly pilose on the 
back, glabrous on the inner face, brown or greenish-brown in dried 
flowers ; corona-lobes arising }—} lin. up the staminal column, 
compressed cucullate, 3-1 lin. long, somewhat D-shaped and }—1 lin. 
broad in side view, the obliquely truncate top gradually rounded 
into the back or scarcely angular at the dorsal apex, inner 
top angles produced over the style-apex into rather long and very 
acute teeth, no tooth or process within the rather shallow fissure- 
like cavity ; staminal column 1-1} lin. long; anther-appendages 
very small, transverse, rounded, erect, applied to the margin of thie 
truncate style-apex, but not or very slightly inflexed over it. 
Coast Recion: Albany Div. ; near Grahamstown, Bolton! MacOwan, 713! 
Miss Daly, 735! ; 
87. A. meliodora (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455) ; plant 
with 1-2 stout stems 2-5 in. high, somewhat harshly subvillous- 
pubescent ; leaves in 5-7 pairs, spreading, petiolate, 1}—3} in. long, 
