8 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
Has.—Near D’Urban, Gerrard § M‘Ken, 664. (Herb. T. C, D.) 
Descr.—Stem 2 feet high, simple, glabrous below, having two oppo- 
site lines of pubescence in the upper part. Leaves 2-3 inches apart, 
4-5 inches long, linear or lanceolate-linear, acute, quite sessile, glabrous, 
except the nerves of the young leaves on the under side, the margins 
strongly reflexed. Peduneles about half as long as the leaves, bearing 
haying in the middle of the expanded portion and on the nerve a short, 
horizontal, 2-toothed prominence or auricle. _Antheys tipped with a 
large triangular, peltate scale. Pollinia on very long, slender, club- 
Apparently distinct by its corona from P. angustifolium; and by its 
large corolla and corona from P. macrum, with neither of which species, 
Fig. 1, upper part of a flowering stem, the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower; 3, corolla 
laid open; 4, corona-staminea, laid open; 5, one of its leaflets; 6, a Stamen, seen from 
without ; 7, peltate scale from the same; 8, pollen-masses ; all enlarged. 
112. XYSMALOBIUM PEDUN CULATUM, Harv. (Asclepiadee.) 
bifariam pilosulis, foliis petiolatis ovatis acutis utrinque sparsim hispi- 
dis, pedunculo terminali elongato multifloro, umbellis globosis, pedi- 
cellis floribus duplo longioribus pubescentibus bracteolis minimis paucis 
basi stipatis, calyce piloso, corollze glabre laciniis ovatis patentibus, cor. 
stam. foliolis ovatis obtusis carnosis patentibus. 
Has.—Common in the valleys of the Winterberg, Mrs. F. Ww. Barber, autumn. 
(Herb. T. C. D.) 
Drscr.— Root fleshy? Stems numerous (30 or more) from the same 
crown, 6-12 inches long, simple, ascending, distantly leafy. Leaves 
4-5 pair, 2-3 inches apart, on short petioles, 1-14 inches long, 3-1 
inch wide, ovate or slightly cordate, acute, penninerved, thinly sprin- 
kled on each side with short bristles. Peduncle continuous with the 
stem, 4-5 inches long, bearing a dense umbel of 40_50 flowers or more, 
ers greenish-brown, 3—4 lines across, Calyx lobes lanceolate, pu- 
bescent. Corolla rotate, glabrous, with ovate lobes, slightly reflected 
finds it “common ;”” yet it seems to have escape 
collectors. In its inflorescence it differs remarka 
lobia, but has the simple corona-leaflets which al 
Fig, 1, a flowering stem, the natural size. ij 
: . 2, front vi f : k 
view; 4, a leaflet of the corona-staminea ; 5, poll a Pata Bi 
en-masses ; enlarged. 
