796 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Tenaris 
long, 2-flowered; bracts and bracteoles (when present) $-1 lin, 
long; pedicels 2~44 lin. long, slender; sepals jl lin. long, 
lanceolate, acute ; corolla-tube 2—3 lin. long, cup-like ; lobes erectly- 
spreading, 34-5 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad at the tips, linear- 
spathulate, very broadly rounded or subtruncate and subapiculate 
at the apex, apparently somewhat replicate, densely covered with 
minute papille on the lower half of the inner face, elsewhere smooth 
and glabrous, pink, with the papille darker ; outer corona-lobes 
arising } lin. up the staminal column, } lin. long, subquadrate or 
subquadrate-ovate, notched at the apex, glabrous ; inner corona- 
lobes } lin. long, narrowly linear or linear-subulate, obtuse, incum- 
bent upon and shorter than the backs of the anthers ; young 
follicles (mature not seen) linear-terete, glabrous. Decne in DO. 
Prodr. viii. 606 ; Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. ed. 1, 223, and Thes. Cap. 
i. 28, t. 43; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 12 ; xxi. Beibl. 
54, 12, and Journ, Bot. 1897, 291 (eacl. the Transvaal plant). 
Coast Reaion : Uitenhage Div. ; Addo, Drége, 2227! Bathurst Div. ; near the 
Karega River, Zeyher! Trapps Valley, Miss Daly, 693! Albany Div. ; near 
Grahamstown, Reade, 93! Hutton! MacOwan! Misses Daly and Sole, 438 ! Bolus, 
Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 1322! common on sandy hills and flats, Mrs. Barber, 
99! Miss Bowker! Prior (Alexander) ! 
2. T. simulans (N. E. Br.) ; stems solitary, 1-1} ft. high, simple, 
glabrous ; leaves on the flowering part reduced to subulate or filiform 
bracts 1-6 lin. long, those below 3-24 in. long, 4-1 lin, broad, 
linear or linear-filiform, acute, erect or with spreading tips, glabrous ; 
inflorescence terminal, with the internode below it 3-1} in. long, 
glabrous in all parts, composed of 2-3 pedunculate umbel-like 
fascicles of 3-7 flowers, opening successively ; peduncles t+} in. 
long ; bracteoles 1-1} lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 2-2} lin. long ; 
sepals 11-14 lin. long, filiform-subulate from a narrowly oblong 
base ; corolla-tube 1-144 lin.- long, cup-like ; lobes erectly-spreading, 
1 in. long, nearly 1 lin. broad near the apex, linear-spathulate, 
rounded and subapiculate at the apex, apparently somewhat 
replicate, thinly sprinkled with minute papillz on the lower half of 
the inner face, elsewhere smooth and glabrous, apparently pale pink 
with darker veins ; outer corona-lobes arising } lin. up the stam 
column, nearly } lin. long, 2 lin. broad, subquadrate, emarginate to 
deeply bifid ; inner corona-lobes }—} lin. long, linear-subulate, acute 
or subobtuse, closely incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not 
produced beyond them. 1’. rubella, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 
song 51, 45, and Journ. Bot. 1897, 291, as to the Transvaal plant 
only. 
Katanart REGION ; Transvaal ; Elands Spruit Mountains, 6000 ft., Schlechter, 
3858! near Botsabelo, 5000 ft., Schlechter, 4071. 
Similar to 7. rubella, E, Meyer, but besides the widely different locality, 
differs conspicuously in the less naked appearance of its inflorescence and longer 
and much narrower sepals, the leaves are also narrower and the venation of the 
narrower less papillate petals rather different, 
