708 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Asclepias. 
highest at the dorsal apex, rounded in to the narrowed base at the 
back, in side-view somewhat oblong with a very short obliquely 
claw-like base, the inner margins produced at the top into short 
horizontal deltoid acute teeth, entirely deep-yellow ; staminal 
column 1-1} lin. long; anther-appendages subreniform, obtuse, 
inflexed upon and concealing the truncate style-apex ; anther-wings 
remarkably prominent, angular at the middle. 
Coast Recion: Fort Beaufort Div. ; Kat River Valley, Cooper, 473! tops of 
high hills above Water Kloof and at Kaal Neck near the Winter Berg, 
Mrs. Barber, 80! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 159 ! Stockenstrom Div. ; Lushington 
Mountain, Scully, 121! , 
Eastern Region: Transkei ; Kreilis Country, Bowker (Mrs. Barber), 96 ! 
According to Mrs. Barber this is ‘‘a beautiful yellow-flowered species.” It is 
allied to A densiflora, N. E. Br., but the different appearance, longer petioles, 
cuneate-based leaves and larger umbels of more numerous flowers, readily dis- 
tinguish it. 
47. A. adscendens (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455) ; plant 
4-8 in. high, branching at the base into several erect or spreading- 
ascending stems, often decumbent at the base, compressed, subhispid ; 
leaves shortly petiolate, 1-13 in. long, 2-7 lin. broad, linear- 
lanceolate to ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, broadly rounded to 
cordate at the base, scabrous-pubescent, drying pale-green ; umbels 
solitary, terminal, semiglobose, 1-1} in. in diam., 12-20-flowered ; 
peduncle 4-21 in. long, subhispid ; bracts several, 14-3} lin. long, 
linear, acute, pubescent ; pedicels 4—7 lin. long, hispid ; sepals 1} 
lin. long, 3 to nearly 1 lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, subhispid ; corolla-lobes reflexed or reflexed-spreading, with 
up-curved tips, 2-24 lin. long, 14-1} lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, 
subacute, glabrous on both sides or with few hairs on the back, 
corona-lobes arising about } lin. up the staminal column and 
attaining to the same level, erect, not spreading at the tips, 
complicate-cucullate, subquadrate in side view, not quite | lin. long 
and about as broad at the truncate or truncately rounded top, 
rectangular or acute but scarcely produced into teeth at the apex of 
the inflexed sides, abruptly or subtruncately rounded into the column 
at the base, which has acute rim-like margins, with a narrow keel 
or wing near the inner margins curving outwards near the base, 
without a tooth or other process within the cavity ; staminal column 
about 1} lin. long ; anther-appendages reniform or transverse, very 
obtusely rounded, inflexed upon the margin of the truncate penta- 
gonal style-apex ; follicles mostly solitary, 2—2} in. long, about $ in. 
thick, covered with stout spreading or recurving subulate processes 
2-24 lin. long, glabrous or thinly pubescent. Gomphocarpus adscen- 
an Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 16, and xx. Beibl. 
pals 
Katanart Recion : Basutoland, Cooper, 2720! Transvaal ; around Barberton, 
2500-3500 ft., Galpin, 596! Bolus, 7664! near Rustenberg, Miss Pegler, 978! 
near Heidelberg, 5200 ft., Schlechter, 3525! near Pretoria, Burtt Davy, 796! 
