860 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Brachystelma. 
ally solitary at the nodes; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, puberulous ; 
sepals 3—} lin. long, narrowly lanceolate, puberulous ; corolla cage- 
like, lobed nearly to the base, with the lobes connate at the tips ; 
united part about } lin. long, flattish ; lobes $-3 in. long, narrowly 
linear, erect, sparsely covered with minute hairs on the back, 
glabrous on the inner face, whitish and dotted with pink on the 
basal part, light green above ; outer corona-lobes arising 4 lin. up 
the staminal column, } lin. long, bifid to the middle, with slightly 
divergent linear-subulate segments, glabrous, whitish, with pale 
green tips; inner corona-lobes nearly } lin. long, linear, obtuse, 
closely incumbent on the backs of the anthers and slightly exceeding 
them, glabrous, light green. 
CenTRAL Reaion : Graaff Reinet Div. ; Karoo-like plains near Graaff Reinet, 
2500 ft., Bolus, 627! and specimens cultivated in England from the same locality ! 
34. B. ovatum (Oliver in Ref. Bot. iv. t. 226, by error B. ovata) ; 
tuber flattened, up to 5 in. in diam. ; stems several, dichotomously 
or trichotomously branched, 2-1 ft. high under cultivation, puberu- 
lous with curved hairs; leaves 3-6 lin. long, 14-3 lin. broad, 
elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, narrowed into a short petiole 
at the base, glabrous above, puberulous beneath ; flowers solitary 
(always?) at the nodes, drooping; pedicels 4-1 lin. long, shortly 
pubescent ; sepals 3—} lin. long, lanceolate, acute, shortly pubescent ; 
corolla cage-like, subglobose or ellipsoid, subtruncate or depressed 
at the top, lobed nearly to the base, with the united part not more 
than } lin. long and shorter than the corona; lobes 5-6 lin. long, 
linear-filiform, much curved, connate at the tips, more or less 
replicate, with a very short spreading pubescence on the back, 
glabrous on the inner face, very pale yellowish or whitish on the 
lower half, light green above ; outer corona-lobes about 3 lin. long, 
pouch-like at their base, divided to the middle into 2 falcate-subulate 
diverging teeth, glabrous, whitish ; inner corona-lobes about } lin. 
long, linear-oblong, truncate or emarginate at the apex, closely 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not exceeding them. 
Dichexlia ovata, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 36, and 
Journ. Bot. 1897, 293; K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 269. 
Centra Recon: Colesberg Div.; without precise locality (a specimen 
cultivated at Kew in 1868), Arnot! not Arnott as originally quoted. 
As Mr. Arnot was a Government agent for Griqualand West at the time he sent 
this plant to Kew, and obtained plants from there, it is just possible that this 
species is a native of that region rather than of Colesberg. 
35. B. Galpinii (N. E. Br.); plant about 6 in. high, branching ; 
branches minutely puberulous with recurved hairs ; leaves ascending- 
spreading, }—} in. long, 1-14 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, obtuse or 
subacute, cuneately tapering into a short petiole at the base, 
longitudinally folded, glabrous above, puberulous with minute — 
