Brachystelma. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 865 
lanceolate to elliptic, obtuse, tapering into a short petiole at the 
base, glabrous ; flowers usually 2 (sometimes solitary) at the nodes ; 
bracts 3-3 lin. long, lanceolate, acute; pedicels 2-3 (in fruit 
becoming about 4) lin. long, puberulous ; sepals about ? lin. long, } lin. 
broad, lanceolate, acuminate, slightly puberulous; “corolla very 
minute, with ovate-lanceolate lobes a little longer than the calyx, 
spreading, corona projecting ; flowers only 1 lin. long” (H. Meyer) ; 
follicles immature, 14-2? in. long, 1}—1} lin. thick, linear-fusiform, 
tapering to an acute apex, glabrous. Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 888 ; Decne 
in DC. Prodr. viii. 647 ; K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 268. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 293. 
Coast REGION : Queenstown Div. ; near Shiloh, 4000-5000 ft., Drége! Table 
Mountain, Drége (ex £. Meyer). 
The only flower of this species that I have seen is upon E. Meyer’s type, but it 
is not describable, as the corona and all but the base of the corolla have been eaten 
by insects. The other specimens seen are in young fruit. Drdge’s original label 
with the type is localised ‘‘ Klipprivier,”” intended probably for Klipplaat River, 
which is near Shiloh. I have not seen a specimen from the other locality. 
43. B. crispum (E. Meyer, Comm. 196) ; tuber depressed ; stem 
puberulous ; leaves. often -reflexed, 3~4 lin. long, oblong, sinuate, 
irregularly undulate-crisped, puberulous; flowers scarcely 3 lin. 
long; corolla-tube campanulate; lobes elongated, very narrowly 
subspathulate ; follicles less erect than in B. meyerianwm, Schlechter. 
Dieir. Syn. Pl, ii. 888 ; not of Graham. 
Cenrrat Recron : Aberdeen Diy. ; hills near Hamerkuil, in the Camdeboo, 
3000-3500 ft., Drege ! 
No specimen of this now exists in E, Meyer’s Herbarium. 
44. B.? macrorrhizum (E. Meyer, Comm. 197); tuber as large as 
a man’s head, subglobose, slightly depressed ; leaves 6-8 lin. long, 
shortly petiolate, reflexed, ovate, undulate-crisped, shining, canescent. 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 888 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 647. 
CrentTRAL Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.; on the Oude Berg, 3500-4000 ft., 
Drége. 
I found no specimen of this in E: Meyer’s Herbarium when the latter was lent 
to Kew. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb, xxi. Beibl. 54, 14, refers it to Fockea glabra 
(F. edulis, K, Schum.), but upon what grounds I do not know, for the depressed- 
globose tuber, reflexed canescent leaves and different geographic region, indicate a 
different plant. 
XLIT. ANISOTOMA. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla deeply 5-lobed; tube campanulate ; 
lobes linear or oblong-linear, valvate in bud. Corona arising near 
or at the base of the staminal column, really double, but apparently 
of 5 dorsally flattened entire, denticulate or bifid lobes opposite the 
anthers (really outer-corona-lobes), with a long appendage (really 
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