Brachystelma. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 851 
rather leafy on the upper half, naked below, glabrous; leaves 
ascending, very shortly petiolate, subcoriaceous, }—-1} in. long, 
1-1 in. broad, linear, oblong, ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute 
or obtuse, rounded or subcuneate at the base, scabrous on the 
midrib beneath and usually minutely and stiffly ciliate or slightly 
scabrous on the margins, otherwise glabrous; flowers in axillary 
fascicles of 2-6 or occasionally solitary ; pedicels 1-3 lin. long, 
apparently angular, glabrous; sepals 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
glabrous ; corolla-tube very much shorter than the staminal column, 
3-1 lin. deep, saucer-shaped; lobes free, erect or but slightly 
spreading, 14-2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad at the base, ovate or oblong, 
shortly acute, with the sides folded back, forming 'a keel down the: 
inner face, glabrous on both sides, ciliate with minute thick hairs,. 
white, tipped with pink or light purple; outer corona divided into 
10 erect teeth arising } lin. up the staminal column and scarcely 
overtopping it, about } lin. long, narrowly deltoid-lanceolate, or 
linear, acute, ciliate and usually covered on the back with minute 
thick or papilla-like hairs, and on the inner face with a finer and 
more minute pubescence, white; inner corona-lobes }—} lin. long, 
oblong or oblong-linear, obtuse, very minutely puberulous at the 
base, glabrous above, incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and 
equalling or shortly exceeding them, white ; staminal column 3-3 
lin. long. Lasiostelma Sandersoni, Oliver in Hook. Ic. Pl. xv. 39, 
t. 1449; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 487, and 1899, 62. L. 
Benthamii, K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pfanzenfam. iv. ii. 297. 
Dichzlia natalensis, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 35. 
Brachystelmaria natalensis, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 
50, and Journ. Bot. 1897, 293. 
Eastern Reaion : Natal ; Tugela, Gerrard, 1805! Wentworth Bluff, Sanderson, 
436 partly! Verulam, Wood, 1161! Clairmont, near Durban, Wood, 3906! 
and in Herb. Natal, 713! and without precise locality, Gueinzius! Sanderson, 
915! 
Dr. Schlechter has described Dichelia natalensis as having the corolla ‘‘ very 
shortly pilose outside” and the ‘‘ corona narrowed at the base, then dilated into a. 
cupuliform tube, with the 5 outer lobes dilated from a narrow base, deeply bifid, 
with erect linear somewhat acute glabrous partitions." I have examined a part of 
the type of D. natalensis (Wood, 3906) and find it identical with the other 
specimens quoted and as I have described above. 
21. B. Gerrardi (Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 61, t. 196); stem }-2} ft. 
high, simple or branching in the upper part, 1-2 lin. thick at the: 
base, with a short spreading pubescence, leafy ; leaves numerous,. 
shortly petiolate, more or less spreading, {-1? in. long, 4-1} in. 
broad, ovate, ovate-oblong or the lower often suborbicular, obtuse: 
or acute, or rounded and apiculate at the apex, rounded or sub- 
cordate at the base, glabrous or thinly pubescent above, pubescent 
beneath ; flowers solitary at the nodes at the terminal part of the 
stem and branches ; pedicels }-} in. long, pubescent, with 1 or 2 
subulate or filiform bracts 2—3 lin. long at their base ; sepals 3-4 lin. 
long, filiform-subulate from a short broadly ovate or suborbicular 
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