Anisotoma. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 867 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div. ; Vanstadens Mountains, Burchell, 4724! 
Drege! Zuurberg Range, near Doorn Nek, Drége, 2221! on high hills, 
Mrs. Barber, 433! Albany Div. ; by the Great Fish River, Ecklon and Zeyher ! 
near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 402! Glass in MacOwan, Herb. Austr. Afr. 1633 ! 
Misses Daly and Sole, 531! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Drege, 3435 ! 
Eastern Frontier, Hutton ! 
2. A. pedunculata (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 150) ; plant 
divided at the base into several prostrate branches }—2 feet or 
perhaps more long, simple or sparingly branched, spreading- or 
shortly pilose-pubescent on all green parts ; leaves unilaterally 
spreading ; petiole 1—? in. long; blade 4-1} in. long, 4-1} in. 
broad, cordate-ovate to cordate-orbicular, acute, obtuse or rounded 
at the apex ; cymes umbel-like, lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, 
2-10-flowered, sometimes compound ; peduncles }-2 in. long ; 
pedicels #-1} in. long; sepals 1-1} lin. long, lanceolate, acute ; 
corolla deeply lobed, thinly sprinkled with hairs outside, puberulous 
on the inner face, with the tube and base of the lobes cream-colour 
and the upper 2 of the lobes brown (Wylie); tube j-1 lin. long, 
campanulate ; lobes spreading (ascending in dried flowers), 13-2 lin. 
long, about ? lin. broad, oblong-linear, subobtuse, with recurved 
margins ; corona-lobes erect, with the body or basal part }—3 lin. 
long, lanceolate or oblong, acute, obtuse or denticulate at the apex, 
having a linear-lanceolate or linear-spathulate appendage }-1 lin. 
long on the inner face, acute or bifid at the apex, puberulous all 
over on the back ; connivent-erect high over the } lin.-long staminal 
column, apparently whitish ; anthers tipped with 3-4 hairs. A. 
peduncularis, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 292. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; Drakensberg Range, Tyger-cave Valley, 6000-7000 
ft., Evans, 379! Niginya, 5500 ft., Wylie in Herb. Wood, 10529! 
My original description of the corona-lobes of this plant is very incorrect, as in 
the flowers I then examined their true form had been obliterated by pressure, in 
better preserved flowers I find them to be as described above. 
XLIII. PECTINARIA, Haworth (not of other authors). 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla small, bud-like, with a short cup-shaped, 
hemispheric or broad and shallow tube and 5 lobes connate at the 
apex, with narrow openings between them. Corona double ; outer 
cup-like and variably cut into 10 to numerous teeth or of 5 minute 
lobes ; inner of 5 lobes incumbent upon the backs of the anthers or 
erect and about equalling them or longer and connivent-erect over 
them. Stamens with the filaments connate into a tube around the 
ovary and adnate to the dilated top of the style; anthers free, 
without appendages, incumbent upon the top of the style. Pollen- 
masses solitary in each anther-cell, minute, ellipsoid or subglobose, 
 pellucid at the ends or sides turned towards each other, attached in 
ee 3K 2 
