786 ASCLEPIADE (Brown), [ Orthanthera. 
CenTRAL Recton: Hopetown Div. ; near Hopetown, Shaw ! Muskett, 120! 
and in Herb. Bolus, 2565 ! 
Katanart Recion: Griqualand West; near Kimberley, Marloth, 756! on 
plains near the Vaal River, Bowker, 20! Bechuanaland; at Patani, near the 
Kuruman River, Burchell, 2416! near Kuruman, Burchell, 2422! 2427! near the 
sources of the Kuruman River, Burchell, 2505! Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, 
6000-7000 ft., Zeyher, 1154! Burke, 63! Crocodile River, Burke, 129! Maquasi 
Mountain, Nelson, 47 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
The flowers are said to be strongly scented. A form with a corolla-tube 
33-4 lin. long and lobes 24-3 lin. long, from Tropical Africa, has been described as 
O. browniana, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb, xxx. 264 ; this may also 
be found to occur in South Africa, I believe it to be a somewhat starved condition 
of the species. 
2. 0. albida (Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xxx. 265) ; 
a much-branched bush; branches erect, crowded, slender, white- 
glaucous ; leaves distant, erect or ascending, 3_13% in. long, $1 lin. 
broad, linear, pungent-acute, channelled down the face, subsessile, 
glabrous ; umbels 4—6-flowered, subsessile or on peduncles }—1 lin. 
long, white-tomentose, except on the corolla ; bracts }-1 lin. long ; 
pedicels 4 lin. long or less; sepals 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute ; 
corolla whitish-puberulous outside, glabrous within ; tube about 
21 lin. long, slightly inflated and about 1 lin. in diam. at the base, 
5-grooved ; lobes 14-14 lin. long, erect, linear, subacute, with 5 minute 
pocket-like thickenings at the sinuses between them ; corona-lobes 
minute, A-shaped, arising a little above the base of the 1 lin.-long 
staminal column and adnate to it between and scarcely as long as 
the pairs of anther-wings, with free reflexed margins; anthers 
connivent-erect around and about equalling the slender terete style- 
apex, linear, with a short acute appendage, fringed or tipped with 
a tuft of long hairs. Engl. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 148; K. Schum. 
in Engl. and Prantl, Pfhlanzenfam. iv. ii. 266 ; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fil. 
a8 Afr. iv. i. 434. O. stricta, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i. 694. 
: is oy pa Recion: Great Namaqualand ; Bysondermaid, Schinz, 26! Karakoes, 
chinz ! f 
Also in §.W. Tropical Africa. 
XXXVI. SISYRANTHUS, E. Meyer, 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed to half-way ; tube campanulate 
or globose-campanulate, sometimes quite glabrous, but more often 
bearded with hairs at the mouth or with 5 small tufts of hair in 
the throat ; lobes ascending or spreading, glabrous or with hairs on the 
inner face. Corona of 5 lobes arising from the staminal column and 
partly adnate to it, with their sides and upper part free, ovate, 
deltoid-ovate or oblong, entire and obtuse or acute, or rhomboid or 
