Sisyranthus. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 791 
glabrous below ; lobes 3-1 lin. long, }—} lin. broad, ascending-spread- 
ing, ovate-oblong, acute, glabrous on the back, densely bearded with 
long hairs all over the inner face, darker coloured than the tube, 
with pale margins ; corona-lobes reaching to about the middle of the 
corolla-tube, 1-2 lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad, 3-toothed or broadly 
rhomboid with the side angles somewhat tooth-like, middle tooth 
deltoid, acute or shortly subulate-acuminate, erect, shorter than the 
anthers or scarcely exceeding the hairs at their tips, not incurved 
over them; staminal column 2 lin. long; anthers oblong, densely 
ciliate with rather long white hairs at the tips. S. virgatus, Harv. 
Thes. Cap. ii. 10, t. 115 (as to the plant figured) ; Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 12, not of EH. Meyer or elsewhere. 
Coast Recion: Bathurst Div. ; between Kasuga River and Kowie River, Bowie ! 
near Bathurst, Hutton! Trapps Valley, Miss Daly, 701! near the mouth of the 
Great Fish River, 100 ft., MacOwan, 1226! East London Div. ; coast at Panmure, 
Mrs. Hutton! near East London, Wood in Herb. Galpin, 3124! Komgha Div. ; 
hills near Komgha, Flanagan, 395 ! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker! near Kentani, 
Miss Pegler, 658 ! 
This has been identified with S. virgatus, E. Meyer, by Harvey and Schlechter, 
but conspicuously differs in being only about half as tall, its inflorescence more 
compact, pedicels shorter, flowers smaller (they are represented too large in 
Harvey’s figure), and the anthers are oblong (not transverse) and ciliate with 
much longer and more numerous hairs, which are erect and collectively form a 
little brush, usually projecting much above the corona-lobes. 
6. 8. Fanninii (N. E. Br.) ; stem 2 ft. or more high, simple, 
subterete, not 2-edged, slightly pubescent about the nodes and 
along one side at the upper part, otherwise glabrous ; leaves erect 
or ascending, 24-4 in. long, 4-4 lin. broad, linear or linear-filiform, 
acute, minutely ciliate along the usually infolded margins ; umbels 
about 4, racemosely arranged, 4~9-flowered ; peduncles }—1} in. 
long, thinly and minutely pubescent, as are the 4-7 lin.-long 
pedicels ; bracts 1-24 lin. long, linear or subulate, ciliate ; sepals 
about 1} lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, minutely pubescent, 
ciliate ; corolla-tube 1 lin. long, rather broadly cup-shaped, not 
contracted at the mouth, glabrous outside, bearded at the mouth 
with a ring of hairs, which descend very slightly into the tube as 
5 broadly triangular patches ; lobes ascending, 1 lin. long and 
broad, ovate, subobtuse, with a thin tuft of a few hairs at the apex 
of the inner face, otherwise glabrous ; corona-lobes not or scarcely 
reaching to the mouth of the corolla-tube, 3— lin. long, erect, 
deltoid-ovate or subhastate-ovate, with a small spreading tooth or 
angle near the base, acute, with a short point inflexed from the 
apex upon the anther-tips and not exceeding them; staminal 
column 3 lin. long ; anthers with or without 1 or 2 hairs at the apex. 
Eastern Rearon : Natal; Dargle Farm, Miss Fannin, 54! 
Allied to S. virgatus, differing in its shorter flowers and open cup-shaped 
-corolla-tube, 
