Brachystelma. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 839 
spotted all over and longitudinally veined at the upper part with 
dark purple-brown ; tube about } in. long and nearly as much in 
diam. ; lobes free, erect or very slightly spreading, 2-23 lin. long 
and about 3 lin. broad at the base, deltoid-ovate, acute, not ciliate ; 
outer and inner corona partially combined, dark purple-brown ; 
outer lobes shortly bitid, pouch-like, with their sides united to the 
base of the shortly linear obtuse inner lobes, which are incumbent 
upon the backs of the anthers, with their tips just exceeding and 
incurved over them. 
Coast Region : Bathurst Div. ; in sandy soil at Linch’s Post, near the Kowie 
River, Bowie ! 
Described partly from an excellent drawing at Kew of a plant introduced by 
Bowie in 1823 into Kew Gardens, which flowered there in July, 1824, and partly 
from an imperfect specimen in the British Museum, collected by Bowie. It must 
be a very rare plant, as although the region has been visited by several collectors, 
it has not been refound during the past 84 years. It is nearly allied to 
B. oianthum, Schlechter. 
3. B. crispum (Grah. in Edinb, Phil. Journ. 1830, ii. 170) ; tuber 
flattened, 3-4 in. in diam. ; stems sometimes several, 4—6 in. high, 
simple or sparingly branched at the base, more or less pubescent ; 
leaves ascending-spreading, }-1} in. long, 1}—4 lin. broad, linear- 
lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate or obovate-spathulate, acute 
or obtuse, usually with wavy margins, shortly pubescent on both 
sides ; flowers 2—8 together, lateral at the nodes; pedicels } to 14 
in. long, pubescent; sepals 14-2 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, 
pubescent ; corolla pubescent and green outside, spotted with purple- 
brown on the tube and base of the lobes, the tube inside and 
dilated base of the lobes glabrous, yellow or whitish ? marked with 
dark purple-brown prominent or wart-like spots, narrow part of the 
lobes pubescent, green, without spots; tube in living flowers 1-1} 
lin. long and 1? lin. in diam. at the mouth, cup-like and but slightly 
exceeding the corona, but in dried flowers (owing to collapse 
from shrinkage of the horizontally spreading united part of the limb) 
appearing to be campanulate, 24-3 lin. long and much exceeding the 
corona, without a trace of the small actual tube, which when fresh 
occupies only the lower half of the apparent tube: lobes _ free, 
horizontally spreading or slightly recurving towards the tips, 3-1} 
(or from figures up to 1?) in. long, broadly ovate at _ the 
base, tapering into long linear tails, with revolute or replicate 
margins ; outer corona somewhat cup-like, pentagonal, of 5 bifid 
pocket-like lobes alternating with the anthers, with deltoid acute 
teeth } lin. long, purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes 4-3 lin. long, 
linear, obtuse, inflexed upon the backs of the anthers and equalling 
or slightly exceeding them and incurved over their tips, dorsally 
connected to and appearing to be teeth inflexed from the outer 
corona, purple-brown with yellowish tips. Bot. Mag. t. 3016 ; Decne 
in DC. Prodr. viii. 647, not of E. Meyer. B. caudatum, N. BE. Br. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 169; K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, 
