Brachystelma. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 853 
erect, rather more than | lin. long, divided to below the middle into 
2 diverging linear-subulate segments, with the basal part linear- 
oblong or rectangular, puberulous, greenish?; inner corona-lobes 
much exceeding the outer corona, connivent-erect, 2-21 lin. long, 
spathulate-oblanceolate, convex on the back, flat or slightly concave 
on the inner face, thickened at the apex, obtuse, puberulous, dark 
violet-brown (Schlechter), blackish in dried specimens ; follicles 
solitary or in slightly diverging pairs, 5-5} in. long, 2-2} lin. thick, 
linear-terete, acuminate, smooth, glabrous; seeds 4}—5 lin. long, 
+ in. broad, oblong, narrowing to the apex, broadly margined, 
concave on one side, smooth, glabrous, dark brown, crowned with a 
tuft of hairs. Brachystelmaria macropetala, Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 51, and Journ. Bot. 1897, 293. Lasiostelma 
macropetalum, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1899, 62. 
Katanari Recion: Transvaal ; near Lydenberg, Atherstone! near Barberton, 
2900 ft., Thorncroft, 267 (Herb. Wood, 4506)! Elandspruit Mountains, 5300 ft., 
Schlechter, 3869 ! 
Dr. Schlechter describes the outer corona-lobes as being glabrous, but I find 
them to be puberulous in his type (3869) as in the other specimens quoted. 
23. B. longifolium (N. E. Br.) ; rootstock not seen nor described ; 
stem erect, 34—5 in. high in the specimens seen (6-12 in., Schlechter), 
branching above, glabrous or bifariously puberulous, naked below, 
leafy above ; leaves more or less spreading, 14~3 in. long, $—2 lin. 
broad, linear, acute, narrowed or tapering into the petiole at the 
base, scabrous on the midrib beneath and with very minute teeth 
on the margins, otherwise glabrous ; flowers 1-2 together at the 
nodes ; pedicels 2—4 lin. long, slender, glabrous; sepals 14~2 lin. 
long, very spreading, subulate, glabrous ; corolla-tube almost none, 
saucer-shaped, scarcely $ lin. deep ; lobes erect, free, 5 lin. long, 
about 1 lin. broad, linear-oblong, acute, replicate, ciliate with 
minute thick obovoid or clavate purple hairs to half way up along 
the inner face, otherwise glabrous on both sides, apparently greenish, 
tinted with brown ; outer corona-lobes arising } lin. up the staminal 
column, with their subquadrate basal part adnate to it, erect, about 
? lin. long, divided to the middle into two linear-attenuate segments, 
which falcately curve inwards, with their points turned towards 
each other by a slight twist, white, very minutely papillate-ciliate ; 
inner corona-lobes 13-1} lin. long, linear, obtuse, connivent-erect, 
much overtopping the outer corona, white, glabrous ; staminal 
column about # lin. long. Brachystelmaria longifolia, Schlechter in 
Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51,50; and Journ. Bot. 1897, 293. Lasio- 
stelma longifolivm, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1899, 62. 
Katanart Recton: Transvaal; in stony places on the Elandspruit Mountains, 
5300 ft., Schlechter, 3873 ! 
Described from a portion of the type in Herb. Bolus. 
