864 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). | Brachystelma. 
Katauarr Recron: Transvaal; Mountain-tops at Upper Moodies, near 
Barberton, 4500-5000 ft., Galpin, 588! 
According to Mr. Galpin the flowers are sweetly scented. 
41. B. Barberie (Harv. ex Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 5607) ; 
tuber large, flattened; stems 24-3} in. high, rather coarsely 
spreading-pubescent ; leaves 1-4 in. long, }—1 in. broad, cuneate- 
oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, acute to obtuse and apiculate, 
tapering below into the petiole, pubescent on both sides, but more 
coarsely so beneath ; flowers in opposite sessile umbels, forming a 
many-flowered ball 3-4 in. in diam. surrounding the stem ; pedicels 
44-9 lin. long, spreading-pubescent ; sepals 3-4} lin. long, #-1 lin. 
broad at the base, thence tapering to the acute apex, pubescent ; 
corolla 1-1} in. long, cage-like, with the lobes connate at the tips, 
-yich dark crimson-brown on the inner face, marked in the pale 
yellowish tube with irregular transverse purple-brown lines, outside 
pubescent, puberulous or glabrous and green ; tube (exclusive of the 
spreading united part of the limb) about 2 lin. long, subhemispheric, 
in dried flowers, from alteration in drying, appearing campanulate or 
cup-shaped and up to 4 lin. long, glabrous within ; limb around the 
mouth of the tube and base of the lobes covered with purple hairs ; 
lobes 3-14 in. long, 24-3 lin. broad at the shortly ovate spreading 
base, then contracted into linear erectly incurved tails with replicate 
margins, varying from pubescent to glabrous on the inner face ; 
outer corona cup-like, } lin. high, divided to half way down by 
5 cut-like fissures into 5 truncate or subtruncate segments, often 
slightly produced into obtuse teeth at the shoulders, adnate at the 
middle to the base of the inner corona-lobes, which are } lin. long, 
linear, obtuse, inflexed on the backs of the anthers and not exceeding 
them, so that in dried flowers the corona often appears to consist of 
5 transverse subtruncate lobes with a linear obtuse point abruptly 
inflexed from their middle. K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflan- 
zenfam. iv. ii. 268, and 269, under Dichelia. B. Barbere, Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 25, and Journ. Bot. 1897, 292. 
Katauart Reaton ; Transvaal ; grassy slopes near Barberton, 2900 ft., Galpin, 
656! near Modderfontein, Cons‘ath, 1012! near Pretoria, Burtt Davy, 2586! 3241! 
Carnegie, 1680! 
Eastern Recon: Transkei; on flats near Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 806 ! Tembu- 
land ; Bazeia, 2500 ft., Baur, 386! 
Described from a living plant, which flowered at Kew in Aug., 1905. 
It also occurs in Rhodesia, in Tropical Africa. 
Imperfectly known species. 
42. B. micranthum (E. Meyer, Comm. 196); tuber flattened ; 
plant branching at the base into several stems, 2—3 in. high, $—3 lin. 
oe _ thick, puberulous ; leaves 5-6 lin. long, 3-3 lin. broad, linear- 
