850 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Brachystelma. 
to the base of the inner corona-lobes, } lin. long, oblong, bifid to 4 
or half way down, with linear obtuse segments, very hairy ; inner 
corona-lobes }—} lin. long, linear, acute, incumbent upon the backs 
of the anthers at the base, with connivent-erect tips, glabrous ; 
staminal column about } lin. long.  Sisyranthus schizoglossoides, 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1894, 357, and 1897, 291. 
Coast Recion: Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, Glass (ex Schlechter) ; 
Highlands above New Years River (Zwartwater Berg 2), Mrs. Barber, 117! 
Bathurst Div. ; Round Hill, Bolus, 6694 ! 
Described from part of the type. 
19. B. natalense (N. E. Br.); roots thick, fleshy, spindle-shaped 
(Schlechter) ; stem solitary, simple or with 1 branch, }—? ft. high, 
3-2 lin. thick at the base, with a spreading not very soft pubescence, 
leafy ; leaves very shortly petiolate, spreading, 1-2} in. long, 2-13 
in. broad, or the upper smaller, ovate to orbicular-ovate, acute or 
obtuse and apiculate, slightly cordate to broadly rounded at the 
B-nerved base, pilose on both sides, shortly and densely ciliate ; 
flowers 2—4 together, lateral at the nodes, and more or less clustered 
at the apex of the stem by the crowding of the leaves, the inter- 
nodes afterwards elongating ; pedicels 44-10 lin. long, slender, often 
curved at the apex, villous-pubescent ; sepals 1-1} lin. long, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, pubescent like the pedicels ; corolla nodding, very 
small, about 2-24 lin. in diam., lobed to 3 of the way down, with 
the united part shallowly cup-shaped ; lobes free, apparently cam- 
panulately spreading, 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
tapering to an obtuse or minutely emarginate apex, glabrous on 
both sides or with a very few hairs on the back, apparently dull 
greenish ; outer corona-lobes arising } lin. up the staminal column, 
ascending, minute, about } lin. long and broad, very broadly or 
subquadrately ovate, shortly bifid, with obtuse teeth ; inner corona- 
lobes erect, much shorter than the anthers, slightly overtopping and 
nearly or about as large as the outer corona-lobes, of similar shape, but 
entire at the rounded apex, glabrous ; staminal column 4 lin. long ; 
follicles solitary or in pairs, erect, about 6 in. long and 4 in. thick, 
linear-terete, tapering to an acute apex, smooth, glabrous ; seeds 
about 5 lin. long and 2 lin. broad, oblong, tapering at the apex, 
concave on one side, margined, glabrous, brown. Aulostephanus 
natalensis, Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 451. 
Eastern Recon: Natal ; Inanda, 1700 ft., Wood, 410! 
Dr. Schlechter also quotes Wood 176 for this plant, but that number, as sent 
to Kew, belongs to a species of Senecio, I find nothing in the structure of this 
plant to gener‘cally distinguish it from Brachystelma. 
20. B. Sandersoni (N. E. Br.); rootstock a cluster of long fleshy 
terete or narrowly fusiform roots; stem erect, 8-18 in. high, 
1-1} lin. thick at the base, simple or branching above the middle, 
