840 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [Brachystelma. 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 268; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 292. B. 
spatulatum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1113; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 125. 
B. spathulatum, Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 646 ; K. Schum. in Engl. 
and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 268. Stapelia tuberosa, Meerburg, 
Pl. Rar. t. 54, fig. 1. S. caudata, Thunb. Prodr. 46 ; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, 
ii. 171, and ed. Schultes, 241; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1286; Pers. Syn. 
Pl. i. 279; Poir. Encyel. Meth. vii. 384; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 
48; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 117; Decne in DC. Prodr, viii. 663. 
SoutH Arrica : without locality, Zhunberg! Harvey, 515 ! cultivated specimens ! 
Coast Recon : Malmesbury Div. ; sandy plain near Darling, 400 ft., Bolus, 
5 anil Cape Div.? in the neighbourhood of Cape Town, locality unknown, 
‘appe | 
Partly described from fresh flowers in formalin. The wart-like spots on the 
corolla are larger and less crowded in some specimens than in others. The figure 
in the Botanical Register was evidently drawn from a specimen on which the 
flowers had closed after expansion. Dried flowers are exceedingly deceptive as to 
the true form of the corolla. 
4. B. fetidum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 52); 
tuber flattened, up to 4 or 5 in. in diam., producing 1 to several 
branching stems 3-6 in. high, variably pubescent with short 
spreading hairs; leaves spreading, }-2 in. long, 1}-8 lin. broad, 
linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, somewhat elliptic or ovate, acute or 
obtuse, cuneately narrowed at the base into a short petiole, longi- 
tudinally folded, sometimes undulate at the margins, pubescent on 
both sides or glabrous above ; flowers in fascicles of 2-6 lateral at 
the nodes, very variable in size, according to the vigour of the plant ; 
pedicels 4-1 in. long, pubescent ; sepals 14-24 lin. long, lanceolate, 
acute, pubescent; corolla 1-2 in, in expanse, pubescent to sub- 
glabrous all over outside, inner surface of lobes and _ tube 
glabrous (rarely puberulous), dark purple-brown or nearly black on 
the lobes and marked with purple-brown wart-spots (not always 
visible in dried flowers) on a white or yellowish ground in the tube ; 
tube 3-4 lin. long, campanulate ; lobes free, spreading, $—1 in. long, 
linear from a deltoid base, with revolute or reflexed margins, acute, 
ciliate with hairs like those on the back; outer corona about 
equalling the staminal column, somewhat cup-like, 10-toothed or of 
5 bifid lobes forming small pockets alternating with the anthers, 
apparently purple-brown ; teeth erect, }—} lin. long, deltoid, acute or 
obtuse, usually pubescent on the inner face with minute white hairs 
(scarcely visible when wetted) or sometimes glabrous ; inner corona 
lobes up to } lin. long, linear, obtuse, incumbent on the backs of the 
anthers and not exceeding them, glabrous; follicles in pairs or 
solitary, 24-3 in. long, } in. or more thick, terete-fusiform, tapering 
into an obtuse beak, pubescent. Schlechter in Jowrn. Bot. 1897, 292. 
B. Rehmannii, Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 449. 
Katanart ReGion: Orange River Colony; near Harrismith, Sanderson, 6! 
163! Sankey, 187! Thode! Rhenoster River, Sanderson (drawing)! Vals River, 
Mrs. Barber, 682! Besters Vallei near Witzies Hoek, Miss Jacobsz! Parys, Rogers, 
