Sisyranthus. | ASCLEPIADE# (Brown). 789 
2. 8. anceps (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 45) ; stem 
solitary or 2 to a plant, simple, 11-1? ft. high, compressed and dis- 
tinctly 2-edged, glabrous ; leaves erect or ascending, 1-34 in. long, 
4? lin. broad, linear or linear-filiform, acute, minutely denticulate 
and ciliate on the margins, glabrous; umbels 2-3, all crowded at 
the top of the stem or the lower one distant, 4—9-flowered ; 
peduncle 0-2 lin. long, glabrous; pedicels 1—} in. long, glabrous ; 
sepals 1-1} lin. long, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sparsely 
pubescent ; corolla-tube 1}-1} lin. long, campanulate, faintly con- 
tracted at the mouth, glabrous outside, densely bearded at the 
mouth and in the throat, with the hairs in the throat deflexed ; 
lobes 1} lin. long, suberect, oblong or oblong-ovate, acute, bearded 
with hairs on the apical half of the inner face, glabrous elsewhere ; 
corona-lobes reaching to or shortly exserted from the mouth of the 
corolla-tube, 1-1} lin. long, basal half 3—} lin. broad, broadly 
rhomboid-ovate or obovate, 3-toothed, with the lateral teeth minute 
and the middle tooth filiform, erect, much exceeding the 4—} lin.- 
long staminal column and connivent above it; anthers with 3 or 4 
hairs at the apex. K. Schwm. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
ii, 264, fig. 77, A-C, and 265; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 291. 
Eastern Recon: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 265 partly! near Gilletts, Wood, 
6588 ! near Camperdown, 3000 ft., Schlechter, 3278 (ex Schlechter). 
S. Saundersiz, N. E. Br., has also been distributed by Mr. Wood as 265. 
3. 8. virgatus (E. Meyer, Comm. 197) ; stem of the type 2} ft. 
high, 1 lin. thick at the base, simple, glabrous ; leaves erect, sessile, 
24-31 in. long, 4 lin. broad, linear, acute, with minutely toothed and 
slightly ciliate margins ; umbels lateral at the nodes and terminal, 
pedunculate, 2-8-flowered, sometimesslightly compound ; peduncles }- 
1 in. long, glabrous ; bracts 3-1} lin. long, subulate, ciliate ; pedicels 
unequal, 44-9 lin. long, thinly puberulous along one side ; sepals 
about 14 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate, acuminate, with the margins 
inrolled at the apical part, glabrous ; corolla-tube 1} lin. long, 
globose-campanulate, glabrous outside, densely bearded with a ring 
of spreading hairs at the mouth and with 5 triangular patches of 
deflexed hairs on the upper part within, glabrous below ; lobes 
ascending-spreading, 1} lin. long, 3- lin. broad, oblong, subacute, 
glabrous on the back, densely bearded with long hairs all over the 
inner face, those at the apex forming a distinct tuft ; corona-lobes 
reaching to about the middle of the corolla-tube, about j lin. long, 
2 lin. broad, broadly cuneate-subquadrate, 3-toothed at the top, 
lateral teeth minute, middle tooth subulate, closely inflexed over the 
tops of the anthers; staminal column 3 lin. long; anthers trans- 
versely elliptic or elliptic-oblong, thinly ciliate at the apex with very 
few hairs. Deene in DO. Prodr. viii. 649 ; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxi, Beibl. 54, 12, not elsewhere; K. Schum. in Engl. and Pranil, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 265. Brachystelma? virgatum, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 
888. 
