Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). 703 
Pl. ii. 900; Decne in DO. Prodr. viii. 560.  G. asclepiaceus, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 7. G. geminatus, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 8, and xx. Beibl. 51, 33 
in note. 
Coast Recon : King Williamstown Div. ; between Chalumna River and Buffalo 
River, Drége, 4955! near King Williamstown, Sim, 275! 1565! Komgha Div. ; 
near the Kei River, Flanagan, 391! Krook, 815! near Komgha, Flanagan, 
1041! British Kaffraria, Mrs. Hutton ! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 95! 295! 
I have examined type specimens of Gomphocarpus asclepiaceus and G. geminatus, 
Schlechter (Flanagan, 1041 and 391) and find no distinction between them, except 
that G. asclepiaceus is a luxuriant specimen with larger leaves than usual, the 
flowers of both are identical with E. Meyer’s type of G. hastatus. 
42. A. crispa (Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. 75); plant 4-1} ft. high, 
branching at the base; branches erect or decumbent at the base, 
villous or pubescent with short spreading hairs, leafy; leaves 
spreading, shortly petiolate, 3-34 in. long, 1-9 lin. broad at the 
obtuse subtruncate or subcordate-hastate base, thence gradually 
tapering to the acute apex, with crisped or wavy margins, rarely 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, with an apiculus and quite flat, rather 
harshly pubescent or more or less scabrous on both sides, or at least 
on the margins and midrib beneath ; umbels solitary and terminal 
or 2-4 and racemosely arranged, 1-2 in. in diam., pubescent or 
villous, pedunculate, 7-40-flowered ; peduncles $-3 in. long ; bracts 
1}-3 lin. long, subulate or lanceolate ; pedicels 5-9 lin. long ; sepals 
reflexed, 14-2} lin. long, 4—3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, villous- 
pubescent and ciliate ; corolla-lobes reflexed, 24-34 lin. long, 14-2 
lin. broad, ovate or elliptic, acute or subobtuse, glabrous on both 
sides or pubescent on the back, dull greenish or purplish-tinted on 
the inner face, brownish-purple on the back; corona-lobes arising 
3-3 lin. above the base of the staminal column and much over- 
topping it, very variable in size, 14-3 lin. long, with the basal part 
cucullate, }-14 lin. long, and the inflexed sides produced into falcate 
acute teeth projected over or against the top of the staminal column; 
upper part produced into an ovate or lanceolate acute or obtuse ascend- 
ing-spreading blade 11-2 lin. long, flat at the apex, concave below, or 
concave throughout, greenish or greenish-buff, with a dark purple 
stripe down the middle and on the back ; staminal column 1-1} lin. 
long ; anther-appendages broader than long, usually bilobed, some- 
times only emarginate, somewhat longitudinally folded or channelled 
down the back, erect, with their tips just turned over the margin of 
the truncate style-apex ; follicles 3-4} in. long, fusiform, tapering 
into a long beak, puberulous or glabrous, smooth or with several 
Series of short processes or tubercles along them ; seeds } in. long, 
} in. broad, concave on one face convex on the other, rugulose- 
Seabrous. Linn. Mant. ii. 215 ; Murr. Syst. Veg. ed. 13, 213; Linn. f. 
Suppl. 170; Lam. Encycl. i. 280; Thunb. Prodr. 47 ; in Nov. Act. 
