702 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Asclepias. 
40. A. ulophylla (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. XXxvili. 32) ; stem 
8 in. high, simple, erect, straight, bifariously puberulous, leafy ; 
leaves erectly spreading, 14-2} in. long, 5-10 lin. broad below the 
middle, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, at first minutely puberulous, 
becoming glabrous ; petiole 24-5 lin. long ; umbels shortly pedun- 
culate, not exceeding the leaves, 8-1 5-flowered ; pedicels 34 lin. long, 
slender, puberulous , sepals 24 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, sparsely 
pilose, not ciliate ; corolla-lobes 3 lin. long, oblong, somewhat obtuse, 
glabrous ; corona-lobes a little longer than the stipes of the staminal 
column, cuneate-obovate, 3-lobed at the apex, with the lateral lobes 
short and the middle one oblong, obtuse, incurved, fleshy, with a 
longitudinal median keel within ; staminal column conspicuously 
stipitate ; anther-appendages suborbicular, incurved. 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; on a stony hill near Komati Poort, 1000 ft., 
Schlechter, 11788. ; ‘ 
This seems to be very closely allied to A. humilis, Schlechter. I have not 
seen it. 
41. A. hastata (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54,7); plant 
9-15 in. high, branching ; branches somewhat compressed, scabrous- 
pubescent ; leaves spreading or ascending ; petiole 1-24 lin. long ; 
blade 3-24 in. long, 25-8 lin. broad, oblong, deltoid-oblong or 
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, hastate or truncate at the base, narrowly 
or broadly revolute along the margins, scabrous above, subhispid on 
the midrib beneath ; umbel solitary or 2 terminating the main 
branches, rarely 3 and then racemose or subcorymbose, 8—20- 
flowered ; peduncles }—3 in. long, more or less scaberulous ; bracts 
1-2 lin. long, subulate, ciliate, deciduous ; pedicels 6-9 lin. long, 
scabrous-pubescent to nearly glabrous ; sepals reflexed, 14-2 lin. 
long, 3-1 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, thinly pubescent ; 
corolla reflexed, quite glabrous ; lobes 24-3 lin. long, 1}—1} lin. broad, 
oblong, obtusely pointed, apparently purple, with the basal part 
whitish or greenish-white ; corona-lobes arising at the base of and 
much exceeding the staminal column, 1 {—2} lin. long, erect, cucullate, 
very obliquely produced from the middle into ovate obtuse 
slightly spreading tips, margins at the basal half infolded 
and meeting, produced at the apex into very short erect obtuse 
deltoid teeth, reaching to or slightly exceeding the middle of the 
lobe, on each side from a little below the teeth a narrow wing 
extends obliquely downwards and curved outwards towards the base, 
no tooth or other process within ; staminal column 1-1} lin. long; 
anther-appendages transverse, much broader than long, emarginate or 
broadly rounded at the apex, applied to but scarcely inflexed over the 
margin of the slightly depressed-truncate style-apex ; follicles solitary; 
only seen in the young state, fusiform, acute, beset with spreading or 
curved minutely scabrous subulate processes 1—1} lin. long. Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1896, 452. A. Flanaganii, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 
454. Gomphocarpus hastatus, E. Meyer, Comm. 201; Dietr. Syn. 
