Brachysteima. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 863 
stems erect, pubescent; leaves 6-12 pairs to a stem, ascending- 
spreading, often falcately recurving, very shortly petiolate, }—14 in. 
long, 1-3 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, 
longitudinally folded, with a short spreading pubescence on the 
underside, glabrous above ; flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2—6 at 
the nodes ; pedicels 3-6 lin. long, pubescent ; sepals 1-1} lin. long, 
subulate or lanceolate-subulate, pubescent; corolla cage-like ; tube 
2 lin. long, much exceeding the corona, campanulate, apparently 
whitish, dotted (always?) with purple, glabrous or thinly sprinkled 
with short spreading hairs outside, glabrous on the basal half within 
and thickly covered above and for a short distance up the base of 
the lobes with inflated subglobose and clavate white (in dried 
flowers) hairs; lobes connate at the tips, 8-13 lin. long, narrowly 
linear, pubescent with short spreading hairs on the back, apparently 
dark-coloured ; outer corona-lobes arising $—} lin. above the base of 
the staminal column, scarcely } lin. long, divided to the middle into 
2 widely diverging falcately curved subulate teeth, very minutely 
and sparsely scabrous ; inner corona-lobes } lin. long, linear, sub- 
truncate, closely incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not or 
searcely exceeding them; staminal column }-1 lin. long. 
Coast Rraton: Albany Div. ; in rocky grassy places near Grahamstown, 
MacOwan, 1039! on mountains, Mrs. Barber, 242! Stockenstrom Div. ; Kat 
Berg, Hutton! Eastern Frontier, Hutton ! 
Eastern Recion : Transkei; Fort Bowker, Bowker, 381 ! 
According to Mrs. Barber the flowers are ‘‘spotted with purple outside and a 
deep brown within.” The long leaves of this species give it a very distinct 
appearance. 
4v. B. villosum (N. E. Br.); plant 10-12 in. high according to 
Schlechter, 3 in. high in the specimen seen, branching at the base 
into several stout stems densely clothed with long soft spreading 
hairs ; leaves very shortly petiolate, 4—9 lin. long, 2}—3} lin. broad, 
elliptic or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute, glabrous above, villous 
beneath, especially along the midrib and margins, ciliate ; flowers 
in fascicles of 2-6 at the nodes; pedicels 1-3 lin. long, thinly 
villous; sepals 14 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, thinly villous ; 
corolla cage-like, with the lobes connate at the tips; tube 2 lin. 
long, shortly tubular-campanulate, with the sinuses between the 
lobes produced into short recurved teeth, glabrous outside, thinly 
covered with spreading hairs within, apparently whitish; lobes 
4-2 (Z, Schlechter) in. long, linear-filiform from a deltoid }-1 lin.- 
broad base, thinly ciliate and sprinkled on the back with short 
spreading hairs ; outer corona-lobes arising } lin. up the staminal 
column and shorter than it, about } lin. long, erect, bifid, with the 
rather long teeth widely diverging and falcately recurved ; inner 
corona-lobes about } lin. long, linear, obtuse, closely incumbent upon 
the backs of the anthers and scarcely or not at all exceeding them. 
_ Dicheelia villosa, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 25, and 
Journ. Bot. 1897, 293. 
