706 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). | Asclepias. 
with dull purple on the back ; corona-lobes arising near the base of 
the staminal column and equalling or slightly exceeding it, fleshy, 
about 14 lin. long, complicate-cucullate, with a narrow cavity, 
somewhat cuneate-oblong and 1 lin. broad at the top in side view, 
obliquely rounded in to the narrowed and almost claw-like base, 
rounded at the top, with the inner margin of the apical angles 
produced into very short deltoid obtuse teeth, below which, at about 
the middle, is a transverse upcurved ridge or keel on each side, no 
tooth or process within, entirely yellowish (or creamy-white ?) ; 
staminal column 1-1} lin. long; anther-appendages somewhat 
rhomboid-orbicular, obtuse, inflexed upon and concealing the 
truncate 5-angled style-apex, which has 5 radiating depressed lines ; 
anther-wings very broad and prominently angular just below the 
middle; follicles solitary, about 24 in. long, 4 in. thick, narrowly 
lanceolate, tapering into an obtuse beak, echinate in several longi- 
tudinal series with rather stout conical obtuse or acute processes 
} lin. long, puberulous ; seeds 1} lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, narrowly 
ovate or oblong-ovate, thick, deeply channelled on one side very 
convex on the other, with very prominent thin crowded ridges at 
the incurved margins and minutely tuberculate on the convex side, 
brown. Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 338. 
_ Karanart Recion : Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, Burke! near Pretoria, MeLea 
in Herb. Bolus, 5706! near Nylstroom, Burtt Davy, 2018! Warm Baths, Burtt 
Davy, 2221! Houtbosch (Woodbush), Rehmann, 5873! near Barberton, Thorneroft, 
211 (Herb. Wood, 4287)! 
Eastern Recron: Swaziland; near Mafutane, 1500 ft., Bolus, 12141 ! near 
Bremersdorp, 2500 ft., Burtt Davy, 3056 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
_Very similar to A. fallax, Schlechter, but rather larger and stouter, and easily 
distinguished by the colour of the corona-lobes. The type of this species 18 
Mrs. Evelyn Cecil’s specimen from Rhodesia, with which the above quoted exactly 
agree, but in the original description the words ‘‘ cuneate” and ‘‘subhastate | 28 
applied to the leaves, and ‘‘ 50-flowered” and ‘‘ 13 in. in diam.” as applied to the 
umbels, and ‘‘8 lin.” long pedicels, refer to a specimen of A. Cooperi, N. E. Br.; 
mixed with the above, from which I took those (but no other) characters without 
dissecting it and did not then take heed of its distinctness. 
45. A. fallax (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455); plant few- 
branched at the base, 4-1 ft. high ; stems erect, harshly or scabrous- 
pubescent, leaves 5—7 pairs to a stem, ascending-spreading ; petiole 
1-2 lin. long ; blade 3-14 in. long, 3-3 in. broad at the truncate to 
broadly cuneate hastate base, thence tapering to the acute apex, 
harshly or scabrous-pubescent on both sides ; umbel solitary and 
terminal or 2, the lower lateral, both attaining to nearly the same 
level, 3-1} in. in diam., 12—15-flowered ; peduncle 3-4] in. long, 
scabrous-pubescent ; bracts 1-1} lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 3-5 
lin. long, harshly pilose ; sepals about 1} lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
hairy-pubescent ; corolla-lobes reflexed, with upeurved tips, 2-2} lin. 
long, 1}—1} lin. broad, ovate, subacute, glabrous on both sides or 
