Brachystelma. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 861 
curved hairs beneath ; flowers 2 or more together at the nodes ; 
pedicels 4-1 lin. long ; sepals about 1 lin. long, lanceolate, attenuate- 
acuminate, puberulous with curved hairs ; corolla cage-like, lobed 
nearly to the base, with the lobes connate at the tips; tube }—} lin, 
long, cup-like, with a thin and exceedingly minute almost powder- 
like puberulence or a few small hairs outside, glabrous within ; 
lobes 7-10 lin. long, linear-filiform, with a microscopic puberulence 
(scarcely pubescence) on both sides and ciliate with a few very 
minute scattered curved hairs, or glabrous on the inner face and 
thinly pubescent on the back, apparently dark purple-brown ; outer 
corona of 5 pairs of erect linear-filiform teeth } lin. long, thinly 
ciliate with comparatively long hairs; inner corona-lobes }-3 lin. 
long, linear-filiform, acute, about twice as long as the anthers and 
incumbent upon them at the base, with the tips connivent-erect or 
perhaps crossing each other. Dichzlia Galpinii, Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 25, and Journ. Bot. 1897, 293, not elsewhere. 
Kavanart Recion: Transvaal; plains near Barberton, 2500-2800 ft., Galpin, 
698! Thorncroft, 647 ! and in Herb. Wood, 10219! 
36. B. pallidum (N. E. Br.); tuber 2 in. or more in diam., 
flattened ; stem (often much) branched at the base or towards the 
middle, 3-10 in. high, shortly velvety-pubescent ; leaves spreading, 
4-3 in. long, 3-2} lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate or 
narrowly elliptic, obtuse-or subacute, cuneately narrowed into a 
short petiole at the base, longitudinally folded, shortly pubescent or 
velvety-pubescent on both sides, but more densely so beneath ; 
flowers in fascicles of 2-8 at the nodes or occasionally solitary ; 
pedicels 4-1} lin, long ; sepals about 1 lin. long, subulate-lanceolate, 
densely pubescent ; corolla cage-like, lobed nearly to the base, with the 
lobes connate at the tips, pubescent like the leaves all over outside, 
glabrous within, apparently yellowish or whitish at the lower half 
and purplish-brown at the upper half; united part flattish or 
saucer-shaped, about 4 lin. long; lobes 5}-8} lin. long, linear- 
tiliform ; outer corona-lobes }—-3 lin. long, erect, divided from 3-§ of 
their length into 2 parallel or slightly diverging linear obtuse or 
acute segments, varying from minutely puberulous on the inner face 
and ciliate with longer hairs to entirely glabrous, apparently whitish 
or yellowish ; inner corona-lobes }—3 lin. long, linear or linear- 
spathulate, very obtuse, sometimes broader than the outer corona- 
teeth, somewhat loosely incurved over the anthers and much longer 
than them, but a little shorter than the outer corona-lobes, glabrous, 
apparently whitish ; follicles 3-3} in. long, }—} in. thick, terete, 
tapering to the acute apex, smooth, glabrous. Dichelia pallida, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 49, and in Journ. Bot. 1897, 
294. D. microphylla, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 312. 
Katanart Reaion: Griqualand West; Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1799! 
Bechuanaland ; near Kuruman, Burchell, 2499! near Lobatsi, Marloth, 3324! 
Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, Burke! Zeyher, 1136! Crocodile River, Burke ! 
Diamond Fields, Tuck! near Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb, Galpin, 
