862 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [ Brachystelma. 
6049 ! 6050! Rand, 967! near Little Olifants River, 5200 ft., Schlechter, 3810! 
Modderfontein, Conrath, 1011! Pretoria Kopjes, Miss Leendertz, 658 ! 
I am very doubtful if this is more than a form of B. Galpinii, they are alike in 
appearance and only appear to differ in the pubescence of the leaves and corolla, 
and the form of the inner corona-lobes. But B. Galpinii is a much rarer plant. 
37. B. cinereum (N. E. Br.); plant about 6 in. high; branches: 
erect or erectly-spreading, minutely greyish-tomentose, leafy ; leaves 
ascending or spreading, 34-6 lin. long, 2-2} lin. broad at the 
middle, oblong or oblong-elliptic, acute or obtuse, narrowed into a 
very short petiole at the base, minutely greyish-tomentose on both 
sides ; flowers in fascicles of 2—5 at the nodes ; pedicels about 1 lin. 
long, minutely greyish-tomentose ; sepals 1} lin. long, lanceolate, 
acute, greyish-villous ; corolla about 7 lin. long, cage-like, with the 
_ lobes connate at the tips, puberulous outside, glabrous within ; tube 
about as long as the calyx, cup-shaped ; lobes erect, linear from an 
_ ovate base; outer corona-lobes connate into a cylindric annulus 
(? arising above the base of the staminal column), deeply bifid, with 
erect linear obtuse segments, sparsely ciliate; inner corona-lobes 
slightly exceeding the outer corona, ligulate, obtuse, glabrous. 
Dichzlia cinerea, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 42. 
WESTERN REGION : Little Namaqualand ; on hills by the Orange River near 
Ramonds Drift, 300 ft., Schlechter, 11505. 
Stated to be nearly allied to D. Galpinii, Schlechter, and D. pallida, Schlechter, 
but has a denser tomentum and the inner corona-lobes longer than the outer. 
88. B. elongatum (N. E. Br.); plant 2-3} in. high, branching,. 
velvety ; branches erectly-spreading, densely leafy towards the apex ; 
leaves spreading, subfaleate, subsessile, 3-1} in. long, }-} in. broad, 
linear-lanceolate, subacute, narrowed at the base; flowers 2-3 
together, lateral at the nodes; pedicels 24 lin. long; sepals 2 lin. 
long, linear, acute, villous ; corolla-tube 24 lin. long, 2 lin. broad at 
the throat, subcylindric, slightly narrowed at the base, sparsely 
pilose ; lobes fleshy, connate at the tips, 9 lin. long, erect, linear- 
filiform, thickened at the apex, ciliate above the middle ; corona with 
a cylindric tube; outer segments 5, short, bifid, glabrous ; inner 
segments slightly exceeding the outer, ovate, elongate-acuminate, 
glabrous, adnate to the backs of the anthers, with free tips. 
Dichzlia elongata, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 35, 
and Journ, Bot. 1897, 293. 
CENTRAL ReEGION : Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 2699. 
This appears to be closely allied to B. distinctum, N. E, Br., and in many 
particulars the description agrees with that species, but the corolla and corona 
appear to be different. I have not seen it. 
=e B. distinctum (N. E. Br.) ; tuber flattened, up to about 3in. 
ree (or more?) in. diam. ; plant 2-6 in. high, branching at the base ee 
