Asclepias. | ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). 713 
densely leafy, glabrescent ; leaves spreading or adpressed to the 
ground, very shortly petiolate, 5-10 lin. long, 3-5 lin. broad above 
the base, hastate-ovate or hastate-lanceolate, shortly acute, glabrous ; 
umbel terminal, many-flowered ; peduncle much longer than the 
leaves, glabrescent ; pedicels 5-74 lin. long, filiform, glabrescent or 
thinly pilose ; sepals scarcely 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, puberu- 
lous ; corolla-lobes spreading, twice as long as the calyx, ovate, 
obtuse, dirty white and greenish ; corona-lobes about twice as long 
as the staminal column, very shortly clawed at the base, ovate- 
lanceolate in outline, obtuse, concave, each margin produced below 
the middle into a short ascending tooth inflexed over the stigma 
(style-apex), brownish ; anther-appendages broadly ovate, obtuse, 
inflexed upon the stigma (style-apex) ; follicles 3 in. long, 34 lin. 
thick, fusiform, smooth, glabrous. Gomphocarpus depressus, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 29. 
Katanart Recron: Transvaal; Elandspruit Mountains, 7000 ft., Schlechter, 
3835. 
From the description this does not appear to be distinct from A. multicaulis, 
Schlechter, but as Dr. Schlechter is well acquainted with that species I hesitate to 
unite them. 
54. A. multiflora (N. E. Br.); stem branching from the base ; 
branches terete or compressed, erect, pubescent; leaves ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, subhastate or truncate at the base, with revolute 
margins, pubescent on both sides ; peduncles lateral at the nodes at 
the apex of the branches, several-flowered, and together with the 
pedicels whitish-puberulous; corona-lobes cuneate at the back, 
3-lobed, with the inner (middle?) lobe acuminate, inflexed, arched, 
lateral lobes obsolete, equalling the staminal column. Gomphocarpus 
multiflorus, Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 560. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, in the Paris Herbarium. 
Stated to have the habit of Schizoglossum bidens, E, Meyer, but with lateral 
(not terminal) peduncles, 
55. A. sabulosa (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 454); stems 
erect or subdecumbent, 9-12 in. high, simple ; leaves somewhat 
crowded, erectly spreading, 14-3} in. long, linear-filiform, acute, 
with revolute margins, glabrous; umbels with long peduncles, 
scarcely overtopping the leaves, about 4-flowered; pedicels much 
longer than the calyx; sepals 1 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
pilose ; corolla-lobes 24 lin. long, spreading, ovate, obtuse, concave, 
pilose on the back, glabrous on the inner face; corona-lobes 
cucullate, shortly 3-toothed at the apex, with the lateral teeth 
smaller; anthers oblong, with obtuse inflexed membranous tips ; 
stigma (style-apex) depressed. Gomphocarpus arenarius, Schlechter 
in Abhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxxv. 52. 
Coast Region: Tulbagh Div.; at the foot of Mosterts Berg, 800 ft., 
Schlechter, 533. 
