Riocreuxia.| ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 801 
erect, connate at the tips, 34—4 lin. long, oblong-lanceolate or linear- 
lanceolate at the lower half, tapering into filiform tips ; outer corona- 
lobes connate into a sort of 5-lobed frill, with the lobes about } lin. 
long, broadly ovate, concave or perhaps laterally somewhat com- 
pressed, acutely bifid or entire and acute ; inner corona-lobes none 
or represented by 5 ridges connecting the base of the anthers with 
the outer corona; follicles 34-4} in. long, 14-2} lin. thick, terete- 
linear, shortly tapering at the base and at the apex into a long 
acute beak, with constrictions between the seeds 2-24 lin. apart, 
smooth, glabrous. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 46, and 
Journ. Bot. 1897, 295. 
Katanarrt Recion: Transvaal ; margins of Makwonga Forest, near Barberton, 
3200 ft., Galpin, 908! in bush near Barberton, Thorncroft, 60! and in Herb. 
Wood, 4291! Houtbosch Berg, 6400 ft., Schlechter, 4423! Ingome Range, 
Gerrard, 1322! between Pilgrims Rest and Sabie, Burtt Davy, 1580 ! 
2. R. polyantha (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 272) ; rootstock 
a cluster of numerous long narrow white tubers (Mrs. Barber) ; 
stem twining, unifariously puberulous; leaves herbaceous, varying 
from nearly glabrous to thinly puberulous on both sides ;. petiole 
1-2 in. long; blade 1}-6 in. long, 3-5 in. broad, cordate-ovate, 
acute or acuminate ; cymes (including the 14-4 in.-long peduncle) 
4—6 (or rarely up to 10) in. long, unifariously puberulous along the 
branches, otherwise glabrous in all parts, with 1-3 flowers at each 
node of the branches ; pedicels 3-14 in. long ; sepals 1-1} lin. long, 
subulate ; corolla-tube 5-7 lin. long, cylindric, not or but slightly 
inflated at the base in dried flowers ; lobes connivent-erect, connate 
at the tips, 4-6 lin. long, linear-attenuate ; outer corona of 5 pairs 
of minute spreading teeth turned face to face or of 5 minute bifid 
concave lobes not more than } lin. long, alternating with the inner 
corona-lobes, which are }—} lin. long, filiform-subulate, incurved- 
erect, applied to the backs of the anthers and longer or occasionally 
slightly shorter than them. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 295. 
R. Burchellii, K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 273. 
R. torulosa, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 24. 
Soutn Arrica : without locality, Zeyher, 1153 partly ! : 
Coast Reaton: King Williamstown Div.; Gonubie Bridge, near Kei Road, 
2000 ft., Flanagan, 2416! Albany Div. ; between Blaauw Krantz and Kowie 
Poort, Burchell, 2668! Queenstown Div.; banks of the Zwartkei River, 
Mrs. Barber, 3! banks of Komani River, 3500 ft., Galpin, 2249! near Shiloh, 
Baur, 854! 
CENTRAL Recion: Aliwal North Div.; Elands Hoek near Aliwal North, 
4550 ft., Bolus, 301! (10501! 10522!). Hopetown Div. ; by the Orange River, 
Burchell, 2652! . 
Katanart Recion: Griqualand West; by the Vaal River, Bowker, 17! 
Warrenton, Miss Adams, 18! Orange River Colony; Khenoster River, Burke! 
Transvaal ; Crocodile River, Burke, 113! Zeyher, 113! Elands River, Rehmann, 
4896! Umlomati Valley, Galpin, 1280 ! Modderfontein, Conrath, 1010! 
EAstERN REGION: Transkei; near Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 893! Bowker! near 
the Bashee River, Schlechter, 6291! Griqualand East; banks of the Umzimhlava 
River, near Kokstad, 4250 ft., T'yson, 1726! Natal, Cooper, 2718 partly ! 
The flowers are stated to be white by some collectors, by others yellow. 
Woodia mucronata was also distributed as 2718 by Cooper. 
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