710 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). [ Asclepias. 
view, scarcely longer than broad, cucullate, without a tooth or other 
process in the cavity, truncate and marginate at the base, produced 
into acute angles or short teeth at the apex of the inflexed sides, 
with the top margin subtruncate or sloping from the teeth outwards 
and downwards to the dorsal apex; near the inner margins is a 
distinct wing, which curves outwards to the middle of the side at 
the base ; staminal column 14 lin. long ; anther-appendages orbicular, 
obtuse or emarginate, more or less replicate, inflexed over and 
covering the truncate style-apex ; anther-wings broadest at the 
angular base. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 452, and Ann. 
Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xviii. 398; Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 
340. Pachycarpus albens, E. Meyer, Comm. 214; Meisn. in Hook. 
Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 545 (by error 445); Krauss in Fl. 1844, 
826. Xysmalobium albens, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 902. Gomphocarpus 
albens, Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 559; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xviii. Beibl. 45, 7 and 17. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Herb. Thunberg! 
Coast Recion: Alexandria Div. ; Quagga Flats, Bowie! Albany Div.; near 
Geelhoutboom, Drége, 3414! near Bothas Hill, MacOwan,227 ! near Grahamstown, 
MacOwan ! and without precise locality, Hutton! East London Div. ; near East 
London, Siefert in Herb. Conrath, 991a! King Williamstown Div. ; Keiskamma, 
Mrs. Hutton! British Kaffraria, Mrs. Hutton ! 
_EasterN Recion: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 13! Griqualand East ; 
hills near Newmarket, Krook, 2407 (ex Schlechter). Pondoland ; near Umtsikaba 
River, Drége! Natal ; near Umlaas River, Krauss, 84! near Durban, McKen, 826 ! 
Wood in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1029! Inanda, Wood, 101! Port Shepstone, 
Rogers, 523! and without precise locality, Peddie! Gueinzius! Gerrard, 564! 
The fruit described by E. Meyer belongs to a specimen of some species of 
Pachycarpus, which is mixed in his herbarium with those of this plant, and has 
the remains of several umbels lateral at the nodes, 2 of them with narrowly 
winged follicles as described. Another fruiting specimen in E. Meyer’s herbarium, 
which may be that of the true A. albens, has a solitary terminal umbel, bearing @ 
lanceolate acute follicle 3} in. long and # in. thick, with one side straight, the 
other curved, smooth and glabrous,‘ not at all winged. Fruiting specimen dis- 
tributed by Drége as Pachycarpus albens, under letter ‘‘ C,” from the Witteberg 
Range in Aliwal North, is like A. albens in habit, but the follicle is quite different 
from the others, being 2 in. long, 4 in. thick, fusiform-lanceolate and thickly 
covered with subulate processes 2-8 lin. long, and being from a region where 
A, albens is unknown is not likely to belong to that species, 
50. A. affinis (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 455, not of De 
Wild.) ; plant branched at the base ; branches more or less decum- 
bent, 8-15 in. long, stout, subhispid or harshly pubescent ; leaves 
1-3 in. long, including the short petiole, 4-1} in. broad, ovate to 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, cordate or truncately rounded at the base, 
scabrous, subhispid or harshly pubescent on both sides ; umbel 
terminal, solitary, rarely 2, hemispheric, 14-2} in. in diam., 16—40- 
flowered; peduncle 1-33 in. long; bracts 2-3 lin. long, linear- 
lanceolate, acute ; pedicels 4-1 in. long and like the peduncle and 
bracts varying from very thinly subhispid to densely pilose-hispid, 
the hairs differing in harshness; sepals 2-2} lin. long, 3-1 lin. 
broad, lanceolate, acute, thinly to densely pilose-hispid ; corolla- 
