Aselepias. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). TOL 
it, erect, 1 lin. long, scarcely } lin. broad across the side, cucullate, 
inflexed sides produced at the top into short falcate teeth 
resting on the backs of the anther-appendages, dorsal apex 
obliquely prolonged beyond them into an oblong obtuse slightly 
spreading concave tip, with a transverse curved wing-like ridge on 
each side at the middle of the lobe, apparently yellowish or whitish 
with their lower part and the base of the 1-1} lin.-long staminal 
column purple ; anther-appendages about twice as broad as long, 
transversely oblong, emarginate, inflexed on the margin of the 
truncate style-apex. 
Coast Recron : Queenstown Div. ; summit of the Andriesberg Range, 6800 ft., 
Galpin, 2262 ! 
39. A. humilis (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 26) ; 
plant 2-8 in. high with an elongated fleshy tuberous rootstock, pro- 
ducing 1-2 bifariously pubescent stems; leaves in 3-5 pairs, erect 
or ascending, mostly basal, 3-3 in. long, 2-8 lin. broad, oblong or 
oblong-lanceolate, rarely linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 
rounded or narrowed at the base into a petiole 1-6 lin. long, pubes- 
cent on both sides and shortly ciliate ; umbels solitary and terminal 
or 2-4 and subcorymbose, pedunculate, 4-5- (6—-8- ex Schlechter) 
flowered ; peduncles }-1 in. long, often with a long peduncle-like 
internode below them ; bracts 2 lin. long, linear-subulate, pubescent ; 
pedicels 4—3 in. long, pubescent ; sepals 2-34 lin. long, 3—1 lin. broad, 
lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent ; corolla-lobes spreading, 34-5 lin. 
long, 2-2} lin. broad, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse, thinly pubescent 
and dark purple on the back, glabrous and white on the inner face, 
more or less ciliate on one margin ; corona-lobes arising } lin. up 
the staminal column and radiately spreading at about the level of 
its top, 3-3} lin. long, complicate for half the length or beyond, 
and, viewed sideways, tapering from a 1 lin.-deep base to an acute 
apex, not produced into teeth at the rectangular basal angles of the 
inflexed sides, with a median keel for ? of its length between them, 
wing-like and as broad as the sides at the base, tapering and 
becoming undulated towards the apex, whitish; staminal column 
1} lin. long ; anther-appendages reniform, rounded, inflexed on the 
rim of the slightly depressed-truncate style-apex. Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 8, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 452. Pachycarpus 
humilis, E. Meyer, Comm. 212. Xysmalobium humile, Dietr. Syn. 
Pl. ii. 902. Gomphocarpus humilis, Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 561. 
CentraL Recion: Aliwal North Div. ; Witteberg Range, 6000-7000 ft., 
Drége, 3240! 
Katanart Rxcion: Orange River Colony; Mont-aux-Sources, 8000 ft., 
Flanagan in Herb. Bolus, 8117! Caledon Kange, Thode, 39! Basutoland, 
Machacha Mountain, Bryce ! 
The plant described as A. humilis by Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 
26, from the Elandspruit Mountains, Transvaal (Schlechter, 3880), may be this 
Species, but according to description differs in having reflexed corolla-lobes only 
1} lin. broad, erect corona-lobes more than twice overtopping the staminal column, 
and ovate anther-appendages. I have not seen it. 
