794. ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [Sisyranthus, 
one broadly deltoid obtuse, or rarely subquadrate and_ shortly 
acuminate; staminal column ? lin. long ; anthers erect, exceeding 
the style-apex, narrowly oblong, minutely apiculate, not ciliate. 
S. imberbis, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 12, and xxi. 
Beibl. 54, 12, with a false reference to HE. Meyer, not of Harvey. 
Lagarinthus macer, E. Meyer, Comm. 206. Gomphocarpus macer, 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 901. Periglosswm macrum, Deene in DC. Prodr. 
viii. 520. 
Coast Recion: Komgha Div. ; hills near Komgha, Flanagan, 374! Kaffraria, 
Drége, 4974! 
This may be only a variety or hybrid form of S. imberbis, but the absence of the 
tufts of hair in the corolla-tube, which evidently play some important part in the 
economy of this genus, seem to point to a specific distinction. The corona-lobes 
in different flowers of the single type specimen vary considerably. It seems to be 
rare, as I have only seen the two specimens above quoted. 
11. 8. Randii (S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 200, including var. 
abbreviatus) ; stems one to several from a root, 13-24 ft. high, 
simple or sparingly branched above, glabrous ; developed leaves 
in 5-8 pairs, 3-54 in. long, decreasing upwards, erect or ascending, 
4-1 lin. broad, filiform or very narrowly linear, acute, channelled 
down the face or longitudinally folded, minutely and distantly 
ciliate, otherwise glabrous ; umbels several, lateral at the nodes, 
3-7-flowered, glabrous ; peduncles }-2 in, long ; pedicels 3-5 lin. 
long ; sepals 1}—2 lin. long, ovate or elliptic with a subulate point ; 
corolla quite glabrous outside and within, cream-coloured (Miss 
Pegler), greenish-brown when dried ; tube about 1 lin. long and 
2 lin. in diam., depressed-globose, contracted at the mouth ; lobes 
erect or slightly spreading, 1-1} lin. long and broad, ovate or 
oblong-ovate, obtuse ; corona-lobes shorter than to about as long as 
the staminal column, erect, 3 lin. long, scarcely } lin. broad unless 
flattened out, oblong, entire or rarely with a minute tooth on each 
side at the base, channelled.down the back, obtuse or inflexed and 
subacute at the apex ; staminal column 3 lin. long ; anthers connl- 
vent-incumbent over the style-apex, oblong, usually ciliate with 
2 or 3 minute bristlelike hairs at the tips. S. imberbis, Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 45, not of Harv. 
KALAHARI ReGIon: Transvaal; near a marsh, Ginsberg, East Rand, near 
Johannesberg, 6000 ft., Miss Pegler, 1052! marsh near Elsburg, 5400 ft., 
Schlechter, 3543! open veldt, near Johannesberg, Rand, 856! Modderfontem, 
Conrath, 1005! second water between Nelspruit and Sibthorps, Burtt Davy, 1611! 
between Standerton and Pretoria, Wilms, 924! near Pretoria, Schlechter, 3692 ! 
ior pa Recon: Swaziland; near Mbabane (Embabaan), 4400 ft., Bolus, 
This species is very similar to S. macer, but has narrower leaves and different 
corona-lobes, the localities of the two are also widely separated. The variety 
— is merely a rather smaller individual than the type but otherwise does _ 
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