844 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Brachystelma. 
bent on the backs of the anthers and shorter than or not exceeding 
them, dorsally connected with the outer corona, glabrous, apparently 
white ; staminal column 2 lin. long. Cynanchum crispum, Thunb. 
Prodr. 46; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 158, and ed. Schultes, 236, and in Weber 
and Mohr, Archiv. 1804, i. 29; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1253; Pers. Syn. 
Pl. i. 272 ; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii. 430 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 106 ; 
Spreng. Syst. i. 852; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 154; Dietr. Syn. Fi. 
ii. 904, not of Jacquin. 
Coast Reaton: Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg! Caledon Div. ; 
Genadendal, Prior (Alexander)! Riversdale Div. ; Tygerfontein, 500 ft., Galpin, 
4332! hills near Riversdale, 300 ft., Bolus, 11201! 
Partly described from fresh flowers in fluid. This may be the same as 
B. schonlandianum, Schlechter. In many points the description agrees, but the 
corolla-lobes of that species are stated to be only 1 lin. long and glabrous, it may 
a been described from a starved specimen, but the description is insufficient to 
ecide. 
9. B. schonlandianum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 
45,35) ; plant about 13 in. high, erect, branching ; branches pilose ; 
leaves 34-5 lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad at the middle, lanceolate, acute, 
tapering into the petiole at the base, subglabrous; flowers 2-4 
together at the nodes ; pedicels 14 lin. long, pilose; sepals } lin. 
long, linear-lanceolate, acute, very shortly pilose; corolla-tube 
1} lin. long, 1 lin. in diam. at the top, campanulate, glabrous ; 
lobes free, 1 lin. long, lanceolate, tapering to an obtuse apex, 
glabrous; corona cupular, with the lobes 3-toothed at the apex ; 
lateral teeth short, acute ; middle tooth (really an inner corona- 
lobe) produced, incurved at the obtuse apex. Schlechter in Journ. 
Bot. 1897, 292. 
Coast Recrion : Uitenhage Div. ; dry stony places in a valley near Uitenhage, 
520 ft., Schlechter, 2585. " : SSE 
10, B. prelongum (8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 384); plant 
(exclusive of the tuber) about 3 in. high, branching ; branches 
shortly pubescent ; leaves 5-6 lin. long, slender, subterete from the 
margins being infolded, acute, } lin. in diam., glabrous on the inner 
(upper) surface, pubescent on the outer (under) surface ; flowers in 
pairs or solitary, lateral at the nodes; pedicels 14-2 in. long, 
slender, shortly pubescent ; sepals 1} lin. long, lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, pubescent ; corolla-tube 1 lin. long, cup-shaped, apparently 
slightly 5-ribbed, with some very minute hairs along the ribs 
outside, otherwise glabrous, apparently pale greenish ; lobes free, 
recurved or reflexed from their base, 24 lin. long, linear from a 
1 lin.-broad base, replicate, glabrous on both sides, not ciliate, 
apparently blackish ; outer corona-lobes arising about % lin. up the 
staminal column and scarcely attaining to the level of its top, lin. 
long, divided into 2 widely diverging falcately deltoid acute teeth, 
minutely puberulous on the back and inner face as is also the 
