Brachystelma. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 845 
staminal column below them; inner corona-lobes } lin. long, linear, 
obtuse, closely incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and not 
exceeding them. 
KaLAHARI ReGIon: Orange River Colony; near Vredefort Road, Barrett 
Hamilton ! ; 
Described from the type inthe British Museum, In some particulars the above 
description does not agree with that originally published by Mr. Moore, but he has 
kindly re-examined the specimen with me and agrees that the above is correct. 
His original statement that both sides of the corolla-lobes are pilose, he believes 
to have been written in error for corona-lobes, 
11. B. Arnotii (Baker in Ref. Bot. i. t. 9, by error Arnottii) ; 
tuber flattened about 24 in. in diam., producing 1 or more erect 
simple or branching stems about 3 (4-6, Baker) in. high, puberulous 
with minute deflexed hairs; leaves (including the petiole) 4—} in. 
long, 1—2 lin. broad, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, tapering 
into a distinct petiole at the base (not “ nearly sessile” as originally 
described), longitudinally folded, with wavy margins, glabrous above, 
densely greyish-puberulous beneath ; flowers 2—4 together, lateral at 
the nodes, developing successively ; pedicels 24—3 lin. long, puberulous ; 
sepals 3 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, puberulous; corolla small, 
reflexed from the very base, but in flowers withered before being 
dried, falsely. appearing to have erectly-spreading lobes and a saucer- 
shaped tube, puberulous on the back, glabrous on the inner face, 
dark-purple-brown, with a green tubercle-like thickening at the tips 
of the lobes, which are free, scarcely 1 lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute ; outer corona of 5 erect lobes alternating 
with the anthers, arising } lin. up the staminal column and attaining 
to the same level, } lin. long, linear, shortly bifid at the apex, with 
the segments diverging, greenish; inner corona-lobes minute, 
reduced to transverse greenish cushion-like thickenings at the base 
of and about 4 as long as the yellow anthers. Decaceras Arnoldi, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 26 in note. D. Arnoittii, 
K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 267, fig. 78; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 292. Anistoma Arnottii, Benth. and 
Hook. f. ex Ind. Kew. i. 139. 
Centra ReEGrion : Colesberg Div. ; near Colesberg (cultivated specimen) Arnot 
(not Arnott) ! 
12. B. Huttoni (N. E. Br.) ; rootstock not seen ; stem 2-3 in. (or 
more?) high, simple or branched, zigzag on the flowering part, 
minutely puberulous ; leaves spreading and in the specimens seen 
more or less tortuous and often revolute at the tips, about } in. long, 
4-4 lin. broad, linear or linear-filiform, acute, with revolute margins, 
glabrous or with a few very minute hairs, chiefly on the mid-rib and 
margins beneath ; flowers in fascicles of 2-7, lateral at the nodes 
and terminal; pedicels }—} in. long, minutely puberulous ; sepals 
}+1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, minutely puberulous at the very 
