790 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [Sisyranthus. 
Eastern REGION: Pondoland; between St. John’s River and the great 
waterfall, 500-1000 ft., Drége, 4975! 
The above description is made from the type specimen in E. Meyer's 
Herbarium, which is the only one I have seen of this species. I do not know what 
plant is intended for S. virgatus by Schlechter in Jowrn. Bot. 1897, 291, where he 
records it as having a wide distribution, the name may possibly partly refer to 
S. compactus, N. E. Br. 
4. §. barbatus (N. E. Br.) ; stem 16-20 in. high, usually simple, 
glabrous; leaves 24-4 in. long, 3-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, 
glabrous, thinly ciliate but not toothed on the margins ; umbels 
2-4 to a stem, laxly racemose, pedunculate, 9-12-flowered, often 
subcompound ; peduncles 1-1} in. long, glabrous; bracts 3-1 lin. 
long, subulate, ciliate ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, pubescent on one side ; 
sepals 1-1} lin. long, 3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
thinly pubescent, ciliate ; corolla-tube 1 lin. long, 14 lin. in diam., 
globose-campanulate, constricted under the limb, glabrous outside, 
densely bearded with deflexed hairs on the upper part within, 
glabrous below; lobes 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, oblong, subacute, 
glabrous on the back, densely covered with long soft white hairs all 
over the inner face, except along the margins; corona-lobes not 
reaching to the mouth of the corolla-tube, 3 lin. long, broadly 
cuneate, 3-toothed, lateral teeth very short, middle tooth subulate, 
shortly exceeding and incurved over the style-apex and hairs of the 
anthers ; staminal column 2 lin. long ; anthers oblong, longer than 
broad, densely ciliate at the apex with long white hairs. S. macer, 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 291, partly. Lagarinthus barbatus, 
Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose, 1848, i. 257. 
Coast Recion: Bathurst Div. ; near or east of the Kowie River, Ecklon or 
Zeyher! Fort Beaufort or Queenstown Div.; Winterberg Range, Ecklon, 24 (ex 
Turczaninow), Stutterheim Div. ; Mount Dohne, 4000-4500 ft., Bolus, 10189 ! 
Eastern Recion : Transkei ; Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 863! Tembuland ; Engeobo 
Mountain, 4500 ft., Bolus! 
This differs from S. virgatus by its much smaller flowers and oblong (not 
transverse) and more densely ciliate anthers. S. imberbis, var. barbatus, 
Schlechter in Engl, Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 46, I am unable to identify, as no 
specimen is quoted, but from his description it is evident that Dr. Schlechter 1s 
mistaken in supposing it to be Lagarinthus barbatus, Turez, 
5. 8. compactus (N. E. Br.); stems 6-14 in. high, simple, 
glabrous, marked with a transverse stipulary line at the nodes ; 
leaves 24—4 in. long, }—1} lin. broad, linear, acute, glabrous, minutely 
and somewhat obscurely toothed, with or without a slight ciliation ; 
umbels 2—5 or 1 terminal compound umbel, 5-12- (or when com- 
pound very many-) flowered; peduncles 0-1 in. long, glabrous; 
bracts }-I} lin. long, linear-subulate, ciliate ; pedicels 1}—4 lin. 
long, glabrous or pubescent along one side ; sepals about 1 lin, long, 
} lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, varying from thinly pubescent 
and ciliate to almost glabrous ; corolla-tube 1 lin. long, 14-1} lin. 
in diam., globose-campanulate, contracted at the mouth, glabrous 
outside, densely bearded with deflexed hairs on the upper part within, 
