Brachystelma. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 855 
on the backs of the anthers, then erect and contiguous in a 
column, with the tips free or connate, white. 
KabaHart Recton : Bechuanaland ; Mafeking, Green in Herb. Schinland, 1683 ! 
Described from a small branch preserved in formalin; received from Dr. 
Schonland. 
96. B. ramosissimum (N. E. Br.); roots 3-5 in. long, } in. 
or more thick, fleshy, terete, fascicled ; plant up to about 6 
in. high, usually much branched from the base and upwards ; 
branches erect, angular, puberulous thinly bifariously and on the 
stipulary line; leaves very shortly petiolate or subsessile, }—j in. 
long, 1-3 lin. broad, linear-oblong to lanceolate, acute, cuneate at 
the base, minutely ciliate and with a few minute curved hairs on 
the midrib beneath, otherwise glabrous ; flowers in fascicles of 2-4, 
lateral at the nodes; pedicels 14-2 lin. long; sepals spreading, 
nearly 1 lin. long, }-} lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; 
corolla about } in. in diam., pale yellow (Schlechter), white (Conrath), 
the united part almost flat, not forming a tube, about 1} lin. in 
diam.; lobes free, suberect or slightly spreading, 14-2 lin. long, 
1 lin. broad at and replicate from the base, ovate-oblong when 
flattened out, acute and incurved at the apex, glabrous on both 
sides, ciliate near the base with short hairs directed inwards ; outer 
corona arising about } lin. up the staminal column, comparatively 
rather large, about } lin. long, spreading or somewhat saucer-shaped, 
subequally and acutely 10-toothed, or with 5 broad emarginate or 
subtruncate lobes opposite the anthers, pubescent on the back and 
around the margin on the inner face, shortly ciliate ; inner corona- 
lobes scarcely } lin. long, linear, obtuse or occasionally bifid, closely 
incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and shorter than them, 
not connected to the outer corona by any dorsal projection ; follicles 
erect, subparallel, 3-43 in. long, § in. thick, terete, tapering into a 
slender beak, smooth, glabrous. Brachystelmaria ramosissima, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 51, and Journ. Bot. 1897, 
293. Lasiostelma ramosissimum, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1899, 62. 
Kaanart ReGion: Transvaal; near Mooifontein, 5500 ft., Schlechter, 3554 ! 
near Modderfontein, Conrath, 1006! near the Vaal River Bridge at Vereeniging, 
4750 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6152! Walmaranstad, Burtt Davy, 1531! 
27. B. Zeyheri (N. E. Br.); plant 2-5 in. high, branching ; 
branches erect or spreading, puberulous ; leaves spreading, 2—6 lin. 
long, }-1 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 
longitudinally folded, glabrous above, puberulous beneath (‘on both 
sides,” Schlechter), narrowed into a very short petiole at the base ; 
flowers usually in pairs (1-3, Schlechter) at the nodes, small ; pedicels 
}-1 lin. long, puberulous ; sepals nearly 1 lin. (} lin., Schlechter) 
long, lanceolate, acute, puberulous ; corolla cage-like, lobed nearly 
to the base, with the lobes connate at the tips ; united part lin. 
long (as long as the sepals, Schlechter), saucer-shaped, glabrous 
