754 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). [ Cynanchum. 
12. C. sarcostemmatoides (K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. ©, 
323) ; stem very similar to that of Sarcostemma viminale, but more 
slender, 3-14 lin. thick, twining, succulent, leafless or with minute 
sessile ovate acute rudimentary leaves }—} lin. long, glabrous ; 
flowers few or several, umbellately fascicled on short lateral 
tubercles, which with age grow to } in. long and are marked with 
the contiguous spirals of scars of fallen flowers; pedicels 1-2 lin. 
long, glabrous ; sepals }-} lin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous ; corolla 
rotate or perhaps slightly recurved, about 2} lin. in diam. ; lobes 
1 lin. long, oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous on both sides, green ; 
corona cup-shaped, 5-toothed, white, arising from the base of the 
staminal column and as long as it, 3—? lin. long, including the shortly 
ovate or oblong teeth, which are inflexed over the backs of the 
anthers, with 5 pairs of keels decurrent from their margins within 
the tube ; below the keels the corona is attached to the staminal 
' column by 5 short septa; anther-appendages broad and rounded, 
inflexed in 5 marginal depressions of the pentagonal style-apex, 
which has a small truncate central boss ; follicles solitary (always 1), 
2 in. long, 3-34 lin. thick, terete, acuminate, smooth, glabrous ; 
seeds flattened, } in. long, ovate, softly pubescent on both sides. 
N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 399. C. sarcostemmoides, 
K. Schwm. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 252. Sareo- 
stemma aphyllum, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 51, partly ; H. Meyer, 
Comm. 221; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 1, 224 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
vi. 116; D. Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 907 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. vili. 538 ; 
K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 256 ; Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 10; xxi. Beibl. 54, 11 and in Journ. 
Bot. 1896, 457. Asclepias aphylla, Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Cap. 47 ; 
Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805), 506 ; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 183, 
and ed. Schultes, 234, partly, as confirmed by one of the three specimens 
in his herbarium ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1262. Sarcostemma tetrapterum, 
Turcz., (and Monostemma tetrapterum, Turez., and M. aphyllum, Ture. 
ex Index Kewensis, ii. 260) in Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1848, 1. 255. S. Thun- 
bergii, G. Don, Gen. Syst.iv. 156. Sarcocyphula Gerrardi, Harv. 
Thes. Cap. ii. 58, t. 191, and Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 237. 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div. ; between Sundays River and Addo, Drege! 
hills between the Zwartkops River and Sundays River, Zeyher, 671! near 
Uitenhage, Ecklon, 56 (ex Turczaninow). Bathurst Div. ? Glenfilling, Drege! 
Albany Div. ; hill near the Botanic Garden, Grahamstown, Tidmarsh | and 
jlcage! peso locality, Bowker ! King Williamstown Div. ; near King Williams- 
wn, Weale ! 
Py a Recion : Natal; Tugela, Gerrard, 1321! Mooi River Thorns, Wood, 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
_ Thunberg gives the localities ‘‘ Karoo across Hartequas (Attaquas) Kloof’ 
in Oudtshoorn Div., and ‘‘near the Hex River” in Worcester Div. for his 
Asclepias aphylla, but 1 do not know which locality belongs to the present 
awe and which to Sarcostemma viminale, both being named A, aphylla in his 
rbarium. 
