Brachystelma. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 843 
harshly puberulous to glabrous ; flowers solitary or 2-4 together, 
subaxillary ; pedicels 14-2} lin. long, minutely scabrous-pubescent ; 
sepals 14-14 lin. long, }-3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, minutely 
pubescent to glabrous ; corolla-tube about 3 lin. long and 2} lin. in 
diam., campanulate, glabrous and “ greyish-green ” (Schlechter) out- 
side, hairy within at the upper part, but when wetted the hairs 
become invisible; lobes free, 24-3 lin. long, 1} lin. broad at the 
base, thence gradually tapering to an obtuse point, apparently with 
more or less reflexed margins, ciliate with long white hairs and 
sometimes hairy on the basal part, apparently greenish ; corona in 
dried flowers apparently of 5 transversely rectangular lobes 4 lin. 
long, 3 lin. broad (the outer corona, which is probably cupular in the 
living flowers), puberulous or pubescent on the inner face (always), 
with a central linear obtuse point (the inner corona-lobe) { lin. 
long, connivent over the ? lin.-long staminal column. Schlechter in 
Journ. Bot. 1897, 293. B. tuberosum, E. Meyer, Comm. 195, as to 
description and the Katberg plant, the other quoted having no flowers, 
not of R. Br. ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 646 partly ; B. caffrum, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 13, not of N. E. Br. 
Coast Recron: Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, ex £. Meyer, ‘between Kat 
(River) and Klipplaat River” on the original label, Drege, 3439! King Williams- 
town Div. ; Mount Coke, 1500 ft., Sim, 1508! Div. ?; Kaffrarian Mountains, 
Mrs. Barber, 37! 
The specimen collected by Drége between Kuga (Coega) River and Sunday 
River and quoted by E. Meyer for this species, is in fruit only and undeterminable, 
_ but appears to be quite distinct from B. meyerianum. 
8. B. Thunbergii (N. E. Br.) ; plant 2-34 in. high, branching at 
the base; stems pubescent or puberulous ; leaves 4-1} in. long, 
1-6 lin. broad, linear, lanceolate or elliptic, acute or obtuse, 
cuneate at the base, flat or undulated, ciliolate and thinly 
pubescent to nearly glabrous on both sides with minute spreading 
hairs, which are most abundant on the midrib beneath ; petiole 
es lin. long; blade 3-1 in. long, 4-6 lin. broad ; flowers in 
ascicles of 2-8 or solitary at the nodes ; pedicels 1-4 lin. long, 
puberulous ; sepals 1-13 lin. long, } lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, thinly puberulous or pubescent ; corolla-tube 14-2 lin. 
long, 14-25 lin. in diam. at the mouth, campanulate, with a minute 
projecting tubercle or point at each sinus, glabrous outside, thinly 
pubescent on the upper part within, white ; lobes free, 2-3 lin. 
long, linear from the ovate-deltoid 1-1} lin.-broad base, replicate, 
erect or very slightly spreading, straight, hooked at the apex, thinly 
pubescent at the very base within, otherwise glabrous and not 
ciliate, “ greenish at the base, passing upwards to brownish or tawny 
yellow” (Bolus), drying olive-brown or blackish-brown ; outer 
corona cup-like, much shorter than the staminal column, 10-toothed ; 
teeth 1 lin, long, deltoid, acute, erect, straight, glabrous, apparently 
white ; inner corona-lobes } lin. long, linear, obtuse, closely incum- 
