Aselepias. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 707 
with a few hairs on the back, white, tinted with purple on the back ; 
corona-lobes arising near the base of the staminal column and 
equalling or slightly overtopping it, fleshy, 11-1} lin. long and about 
1 lin. broad at the top in side view, complicate-cucullate, with a 
narrow cavity, obliquely rounded at the back into the narrowed and 
almost stalk-like base, truncate or slightly rounded at the top, with 
the inner margin of the apical angles subrectangular or slightly 
produced into very short deltoid teeth, no tooth within, greenish- 
yellow at the top, dark violet-brown on the back and lower part ; 
staminal column 1 lin. long; anther-appendages suborbicular, 
slightly emarginate, inflexed on the truncate obtusely pentagonal 
style-apex, which is marked with 5 radiating slightly depressed 
lines ; anther-wings rather broad, prominently angular below their 
middle; follicles (very immature) solitary, lanceolate-fusiform, 
tapering to a beak, echinate with 6 (or more ?) longitudinal series of 
small spine-like acute processes } lin. long, puberulous. Gompho- 
carpus fallax, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 29. 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; hills near Pretoria, Schlechter, 3604! 
Miss Leendertz, 294! Aapies Poort, Rehmann, 4157! Jeppestown Ridge, near 
Johannesburg, Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6048! hills near Rustenburg, 4000 ft., 
Miss Pegler, 980! 
In the original description the corolla-lobes are stated to be erectly-spreading 
with reflexed tips, the anther-wings narrow and not at all enlarged at the base, 
and in a note the style-apex is described as like a 5-rayed star with elongated 
point-like bosses upon it. I have examined flowers from a part of the type, given 
by Dr. Schlechter to Dr. Bolus, and do not find any of these characters agree with 
that specimen ; the organs are as described above. The species is readily dis- 
been dnane from those most closely allied to it by the peculiar coloration of the 
corona-lobes. 
46. A. Cooperi (N. E. Br.) ; plant 4-1 ft. high, probably branching 
at the base ; stems often decumbent below, bifariously subscabrous 
to subhispid ; leaves 5-7 pairs to a stem, ascending or somewhat 
spreading ; petiole 2-6 lin. long; blade 14~3 in. long, }-} in. broad, 
lanceolate, cuneate or cuneately subhastate to subtruncate at the base, 
thence tapering to the acute apex, undulate at the scabrous margins, 
harshly pubescent with rather coarse hairs on both sides; umbel 
solitary, terminal, 14-2 in. in diam., semiglobose, 30-50-flowered ; 
peduncle 2—4 in. long, subscabrous to thinly subhispid ; bracts about 
2 lin. long, subulate, pubescent ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long, thinly and 
somewhat harshly to densely and softly villous ; sepals about 1} lin. 
long, lanceolate, acute, thinly hairy; corolla-lobes reflexed, with 
upeurved tips, 24-3 lin. long, 14 to nearly 2 lin. broad, elliptic- 
oblong, subacute, most minutely puberulous at the base of the inner 
face, otherwise glabrous or with a few hairs near the apex on the 
back, apparently greenish-yellow, tipped. with purple-brown on the 
ck; corona-lobes arising about } lin. up the staminal column, 
erect, fleshy, complicate-cucullate, 14-1} lin. long, about 1 lin. broad 
across the side of the obliquely truncate top, which is slightly 
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