Aselepias. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 711 
lobes reflexed or reflexed-spreading, upeurved at the tips, 24-3} in. 
long, 13-24 lin. broad, ovate, subacute, thinly pubescent on the 
back, glabrous on the inner face ; corona-lobes erect, arising }1—} lin. 
up the staminal column and usually slightly exceeding it, 1-1} lin. 
long, oblong and distinctly longer than broad in side view, cucullate, 
without a tooth or other process in the cavity, truncate, with a 
wing-like rim at the base, with the inner top angles of the sides 
produced into short and obtuse or longer falcate and acute teeth, 
from which the top margin slopes upwards and outwards in a 
distinct curve to the dorsal apex, which is often slightly recurved, 
with a narrow wing near the inner margins, which curves backwards 
towards the base, but is not easily seen in some dried flowers ; 
staminal column 1-14 lin. long; anther-appendages as broad or 
broader than long, subtruncate or emarginate, somewhat reflexed at 
the sides, inflexed upon the margin of the truncate style-apex. A. 
macropus, Schlechter in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 68 not 
elsewhere. Gomphocarpus affinis, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb, xx. 
Beibl. 51, 27. 
Kaxanart Region: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 985! Transvaal ; Crocodile 
River, Burke! by the Bushmans Spruit, west of Lake Chrissie, Chamberlaine ! 
near Wilge River, 4600 ft., Schlechter, 3751! Ginsberg, Miss Pegler, 1051! near 
Lydenburg, Wilms, 956! Modderfontein, Conrath, 991b! Witkleifontein, Burtt 
Davy, 3126! White River Settlement, Burtt Davy, 1499! and without precise 
locality, Sanderson ! 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East; at the foot of Mount Malowe, 3000 ft., 
Tyson, 3118! Natal; Richmond, Krook, 816! Shafton, Howick, Mrs, Hutton, 402 ; 
Umkomanzi River, Schlechter, 6682! Swaziland, between Carolina and Mbabane, 
5000-5600 ft., Bolus, 12139! near Kings Kraal, Burtt Davy, 2921! 
According to Miss Pegler the flowers are ‘‘ yellow and lilac,” whilst Dr. Schlechter 
describes the corolla as greenish-white. In dried specimens the corolla appears to 
be whitish, stained with purple on the back, and the corona brown or yellow- 
brown, often dark purple at the base. A. affnis is very closely allied to and may 
be only a variety of A. albens, but the usually more densely flowered umbels, and 
particularly the oblong shape and usually upward slope of the top margin of the 
corona-lobes seem constant characters whereby to distinguish them ; in Burtt Davy, 
rey however, which otherwise agrees, the corona-lobes are almost truncate at 
the top. 
51. A. macropus (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 456); plant 
branching at the base; stems decumbent, 6-16 in. long, rather 
stout, unifariously puberulous and thinly hispidulous; leaves 
spreading ; petiole 2-5 lin. long; blade 1-2} in. long, 10-15 lin. 
broad, ovate, ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute, rounded or 
cordate at the base, slightly scabrous or sparsely subhispid on both 
sides, scabrous on the margins; umbels solitary, terminal, globose, 
13-21 in. in diam., 12—30-flowered ; peduncle 3-6 in. long, stout, 
pubescent along one side or subhispid all round; bracts } in. long, 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, subhispid ; pedicels stout, 5-9 
lin. long, subhispid ; sepals 24 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, more or 
less keeled and the sides infolded at the tips, subhispid ; corolla- 
lobes reflexed with upcurved tips, about 34 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, 
