Eustegia.| ASCLEPIADEA: (Brown). 763 
than the outer, deeply 3-partite, with the lateral segments linear, 
subfalcate, obtuse, enlarged into a rounded lobe on the outer margin 
below the middle, and with the middle segment suberect, linear, 
subobtuse ; inner series linear-lanceolate, attenuate at the apex, 
subincurved, slightly exceediug the anthers. 
Coast Recon: Piquetberg Div. ; sandy places at the foot of Piquetberg 
Mountain, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 5213. 
5. E. plicata (Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 218); branches 
decumbent, 2-3} in. long, more or less pubescent or puberulous ; 
leaves 1-2 in. long, filiform or linear-filiform, rarely hastate-filiform, 
acute, glabrous or pubescent ; umbels pedunculate, 2—5-flowered ; 
peduncles 2-5 lin. long, puberulous or pubescent on one side ; bracts 
minute ; pedicels 2—3 lin. long, puberulous ; sepals about { lin. long, 
} lin. broad, ovate, acute, glabrous ; corolla-lobes 14 lin. long, lin. 
broad, very spreading, oblong, obtuse, slightly twisted, glabrous on 
both sides, apparently dull green ; outer series of corona-lobes } lin. 
long, entire, oblong-linear, obtuse or subtruncate, purple, with white 
margins ; middle series 3 lin. long, oblong or linear, obtuse, with 
inflexed triangular sides at the base, but scarcely 3-lobed ; inner 
series 1 lin. long, oblong-linear, concave, obtuse ; style-apex very 
stout, oblong to obovoid-clavate, obtuse, probably 5-angled, produced 
} lin. beyond the anther-appendages. 
Coast Raton: Piquetberg Div.; hills near Piquiniers Kloof, Schlechter, 
10755! Malmesbury Div. ; Hopefield, Bachmann, 1995! 
XXVI. EMICOCARPUS, K. Schum. and Schlechter. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes narrowly 
overlapping in bud. Corona very complicated ; outer arising in the 
angle between the corolla and the staminal column, consisting of 
20 segments, all very shortly connected at the base or almost free 
and apparently belonging to 1 series, but probably composed of 2 
whorls, the outer consisting of 5 simple segments opposite the 
corolla-lobes, and the inner of 5 tripartite segments alternating 
with them, with their lateral lobes infolded so as to stand in front 
of the simple outer lobe, as if they were appendages arising from 
the base of it; inner of 5 simple lobes arising a short distance up 
the staminal column, near or at the base of the anthers and applied 
to their backs, Stamens arising at the base of the corolla, united 
into a tube around the ovary, with the anthers adnate at their base 
to the dilated part of the style, and tipped with a very minute 
scarcely visible appendage. Pollen-masses solitary in each anther- 
cell, pendulous, very minute, attached in pairs to the pollen-carriers 
by long abruptly bent caudicles. Style produced beyond the dilated 
part into a beak. Carpels with a single ovule in each, seated in a 
cavity at the top of a thickened placenta. Follicles small, ob- 
