Aselepias. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 705 
leaves 3-6 pairs to a stem, ascending or suberect, subsessile or very 
shortly petiolate, 21-4} in. long, 24-8 lin. broad, broadly linear to 
lanceolate, acute or subacute, rounded or cuneate at the base, 
scabrous on both sides and at the narrowly revolute margins ; 
umbel solitary and terminal or the stem forking once or twice 
dichotomously at the top and bearing 2-4 umbels, corymbosely 
arranged, 4—12-(mostly 7-8-) flowered; peduncles 4-2} or when 
solitary up to 7 in. long, scabrous-pubescent ; bracts 2—3 lin. long, 
linear-subulate, acute, thinly pubescent; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, 
scabrous-pubescent or subhispid ; sepals 24-2? lin. long, 1-1} lin. 
broad, lanceolate, acute, subhispid-pubescent ; corolla-lobes reflexed- 
spreading, 27-3} lin. long, 13-2} lin. broad, ovate, subacutely 
pointed, glabrous on both sides, apparently whitish, tinted with 
purple on the back; corona-lobes arising close to the base of the 
staminal column and equalling or slightly exceeding it, 14-1? lin. 
long, erect, about 1 lin. broad across the side, compressed-cucullate, 
truncately rounded at the top, rounded on the back, with the 
inflexed sides very slightly produced into obtuse teeth at the apex, 
no tooth or appendage within, yellow, with the basal part chocolate ; 
staminal column 1} lin. long; anther-wings rectangularly angular 
at the middle; anther-appendages ovate to suborbicular, obtuse, 
with whitish granules embedded in them, producing a somewhat 
frosted appearance, closely inflexed over the concave style-apex. 
Gomphocarpus Woodii, Schlechter in Journ. of Bot. 1894, 258. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Dargle Farm, Fannin, 34! near Howick, 3500- 
3700 ft., Wood, 4258! 5121! Greenwich Farm, Riet Vlei, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 
2743! near Pietermaritzburg, Wilms, 2138 ! 
The granules in the very thin membrane of the anther-appendages are remark- 
able, and I do not recollect having seen them in any other species ; they appear to 
be crystals of oxalate of lime. 
44. A. densiflora (N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i, 320) ; 
plant few-branched at the base, 1-1? ft. high; stems erect or 
decumbent at the base, harshly or scabrous-pubescent ; leaves 5-9 
pairs to a stem, ascending or spreading; petiole 1-2 lin. long; 
blade 1-24 in. long, 2-10 lin. broad at the base, the lower ovate or 
oblong-ovate, the middle elongated and gradually tapering from base 
to apex, the upper linear-lanceolate, all acute, cordate, subcordate, 
subtruncate or rounded at the base, narrowly revolute and undulate 
at the margins, harshly or scabrous-pubescent on both sides ; umbel 
solitary, terminal, 1-14 in. in diam., 15-25-flowered ; peduncles on 
the main stems 34-7 in. long, more or less scabrous on one side ; 
bracts 14-2 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 4-6 lin. long, glabrous or 
with a few stiff spreading hairs; sepals 1}-1} lin. long, lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute, hairy-pubescent ; corolla-lobes reflexed, 
2} to nearly 3 lin. long, 14—-1% lin. broad, ovate or oblong-ovate, 
subacute, glabrous or with a few hairs on the back, glabrous on the 
inner face or most minutely puberulous at the base, white, tinted 
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