Cynanchum.| ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). 747 
Coast Recion: Cape Div. ; Lion Mountain, Ecklon and Zeyher, 78! Faure! 
Schlechter, 11504! Greenpoint, Hcklon and Zeyher! Pappe, 67! near the Light- 
house at Cape Town, Prior! by the Lion Battery, Wolley Dod, 1149! shore 
north of Camps Bay, Wolley Dod, 3445 ! 
The corona is described by Dr. Schlechter as subentire with lamella or keels on 
the inner face. I do not find it so in any of the specimens above quoted. 
5. C. natalitium (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 32) ; 
stem twining, }-1 lin. thick, puberulous on the young parts, be- 
coming glabrous ; leaves thinly to thickly coriaceous when dried, 
evidently sometimes fleshy ; petiole }—} in. long; blade $—1? in. 
long, 4-1 in. broad, oblong, elliptic or suborbicular, very obtuse or 
broadly rounded at the apex, apiculate, rounded or somewhat 
cuneate at the base, thinly puberulous with minute curved hairs on 
both sides or glabrous ; umbels lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, 
6—16-flowered ; peduncles 1—} in. long, puberulous on one side ; 
bracts minute, deltoid ; pedicels 2-4 lin. long, glabrous or slightly 
puberulous ; sepals }$—} lin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous or 
puberulous ; corolla-lobes widely spreading, about 2 lin. long and 
1-1} lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, glabrous on both sides, dull green, 
often drying brown ; corona tubular, usually slightly narrowed at 
the shortly 5-toothed mouth, white; tube 13-1} lin. long; teeth 
{-3 lin. long, truncate, the spaces between them broad, concave, 
with recurved margins; staminal column | lin. long, contracted 
below the depressed subglobose antheriferous part into a fluted 
stipe ; anther-appendages lanceolate, acute, closely incumbent _on 
the obtuse style-apex; follicles 2-24 in. long, j-} in. thick, 
lanceolate-fusiform, beaked or acuminate, acute or obtuse, with a 
harrow wing on each side and a keel down the back, glabrous, 
puberulous when young. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 6 ; 
Journ. Bot. 1896, 457, and Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 69 ; 
Wood, Natal Pl. iv. t. 301. Cynoctonwm capense, E. Meyer, Comm. 
216, as to “d.” 
Soutu Arrica: without locality, Drége, 4953 ! 
Coast Recion: Bathurst Div. ; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 3819! Penther, 
793! near the mouth of the Fish River, Burchell, 3753! Riet River, Mrs. White ’ 
49! Albany Div. ; Sister Rocks near Fairfield, Hutton ! King Williamstown Div. ; 
Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton ! East London Div. ; near East London, Galpin, 1831! 
EasteRN ReGion: Transkei; near the coast, Miss Pegler, 76! Bowker! 
Pondoland ; between Umtentu River and Umzimkulu River, Drége ! Natal: near 
Durban, Sanderson, 547! Schlechter, 3082! Wentworth Bluff, Sanderson, 436 
partly! Bluff, Wood, 5387. 
6. C. intermedium (N. E. Br.) ; plant about 14-2 ft. high ; stems 
twining, slender, }—} lin. thick, glabrous ; leaves thinly coriaceous, 
apparently not fleshy ; petiole 14—2 lin. long, slender ; blade }—} in. 
long, 4-5 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse or subacute, apiculate, broadly 
rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides or with a few minute 
hairs on the midrib beneath ; umbels lateral at the nodes, pedun- 
