Brachystelma. | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 849 
17. B. occidentale (Schlechter in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
xxxv. 53) ; tuber subglobose ; plant about 3 in. high, branching at the 
base ; stems erect, slender, covered with very minute often recurved 
hairs, slightly rough to the touch; leaves ascending or spreading, 
3-7 lin. long, about } lin. broad, linear, acute, tapering at the base, 
apparently somewhat fleshy and on the dried specimen often more 
or less twisted, flat on the upper side, slightly convex but without 
a distinct midrib on the back, with a very minute adpressed 
ciliation, otherwise glabrous; flowers usually in pairs, sometimes 
solitary, lateral at the nodes or subaxillary ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, 
slender, covered with exceedingly minute somewhat adpressed hairs, 
and having two small lanceolate acute bracts about } lin. long at 
their base ; sepals $—3 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; 
corolla-tube scarcely $ lin. long, cup-shaped ; lobes free, campanu- 
lately spreading or suberect, about 1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad at the 
base, oblong-lanceolate, acute, with the margins at the middle 
incurved and the apex much thickened and incurved-hooked, 
glabrous on both sides and not ciliate, “ yellowish-white dotted with 
wine-red on the inner surface” (Schlechter); outer corona-lobes 
arising about } lin. up the staminal column and much overtopping 
it, 2 lin. long, divided into 2 linear obtuse incurved segments, which 
are adnate in pairs at the base to the inner corona-lobes, glabrous ; 
inner corona-lobes } lin. long, linear, obtuse, closely incumbent upon 
the backs of the anthers and scarcely exceeding them, glabrous. 
Brachystelmaria occidentalis, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 293. 
Lasiostelma occidentale, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 38 in 
note. 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; stony places on a mountain near Smitswinkel Bay, 
300 ft., very rare, only one plant seen, Schlechter, 666 ! 
Described from a branch and flowers from the type specimen in the Herbaria 
of Prof. Hans Schinz and Dr. Bolus, but I do not find either the stem, pedicels or 
calyx to be ‘‘ pilose” as described by Dr. Schlechter, the hairs are exceedingly 
minute, and there are none on the sepals, except just at their very base. 
18. B. schizoglossoides (N. E. Br.) ; roots fascicled, thick, fleshy, 
long and narrowly fusiform ; stem solitary, simple, 4-8 in. high, 
glabrous, naked at the basal part, leafy above ; leaves ascending, 
4-13 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad, linear, acute, tapering at the base, 
glabrous ; flowers 1-3 together in fascicles or very shortly pedun- 
culate umbels lateral at the nodes or rarely axillary ; peduncles 
0-3 lin. long, glabrous; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 3—} 
lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, recurved at the tips, glabrous ; 
corolla lobed to 2 of the way down, green (Mrs. Barber); tube 
much shorter than the staminal column, saucer-shaped ; lobes free, 
campanulately spreading, with incurved tips, 3—? lin. long and the 
same in breadth at the base, broadly ovate, shortly cuspidate-acute, 
bordered with minute very thick or subclavate weakly attached 
hairs at the tips on the inner face, otherwise glabrous ; outer corona- 
lobes arising }—} lin. up the staminal column, opposite and adnate 
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