858 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Brachystelma. 
the type. Dichzlia breviflora, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl, 51, 49, and 
Journ. Bot. 1897, 294. 
Coast Recion: Bedford Div. ; near Bedford, Hutton! British Kaffraria and 
Eastern Frontier, Hutton ! 
Kananart Recron: Var. 6: Transvaal; near the Leper Hospital on the way 
to Johannesburg, Conrath, 1009! near Mooifontein, near Heidelberg, Schlechter, 
3568, Piet Retief, Burtt Davy, 1913 ! 
Eastern Recroy : ‘l'ranskei ; near the Bashee River at Fort Bowker, Bowker, 
593 ! and without precise locality, Bowker, 247 (Mrs. Barber)! 
Dr, Schlechter has considered the Transvaal plant to be specifically distinct from 
B. pygmeum, but I find nothing to separate it except the absence of hairs on the 
inside of the corolla, and in some specimens of B. pyymzum they are rather 
seanty. The leaves of typical B. pygmxum are sometimes as undeveloped at the 
time of flowering as they are in var. breviflorum. 
30. B. commixtum (N. E. Br.); plant 2-5 in. high, branching ; 
branches erect, thinly puberulous with exceedingly minute recurved 
hairs ; leaves ascending, 1-1} in. long, $—} lin. broad, linear- 
subterete from the margins being infolded so as to meet, acute or 
subobtuse, sometimes twisted, obscurely or thinly and very minutely 
puberulous to glabrous; flowers in pairs at the nodes ; pedicels 
}—} lin. long, very minutely puberulous, as are the } lin.-long ovate 
acuminate sepals; corolla cage-like, lobed nearly to the base, with 
the lobes connate at the tips, thinly sprinkled with exceedingly 
minute papilla-like hairs outside and within or almost glabrous ; 
united part about } lin. long, flattish ; lobes about 7 lin. long, 
filiform from a 3 lin.-broad base, much contorted in the dried 
flowers, dark purple-brown; outer corona-lobes shorter than the 
staminal column, about } lin. long, divided nearly to the base into 
2 linear-subulate slightly divergent teeth, glabrous ; inner corona- 
lobes 4 lin. long, oblong-linear, obtuse, closely incumbent upon the 
backs of the anthers and slightly exceeding them, but not erect at 
the tips. 
Centrat Recion : Aliwal North Div. ; hills near Riet Valley, at the foot of the 
Witteberg Range, 5000 ft., Drége, 3440 partly ! 
This species is mixed with B. circinatwm in E. Meyer’s Herbarium and at Kew ! 
31. B. circinatum (E. Meyer, Comm. 196); plant 5-6 in. high, 
branching; branches erect, densely puberulous with minute 
recurved hairs; leaves ascending or suberect from a spreading 
base, 24-6 lin. long, linear or linear-subterete from being longitu- 
dinally folded or having incurved margins, acute or subobtuse, 
\-} lin. broad when folded, puberulous like the stems, with the 
upper (infulded) surface glabrous; flowers mostly in pairs at the 
nodes ; pedicels 1 (in fruit 2-24) lin. long; sepals about ? lin. long, 
lanceolate, acuminate, and like the pedicels minutely puberulous ; 
corolla cage-like, lobed nearly to the base, with the lobes connate at 
the tips, minutely spreading-puberulous all over outside, glabrous 
within ; united part flattish or saucer-shaped, scarcely } lin. deep ; 
_ lobes 4-5 lin, long, linear-filiform from a 3 lin.-broad base ; outer 
