10 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 
linear, obtuse, 3 inch long, not a line wide, sessile, scaberulous, or 
minutely pubescent, especially on the under side. Pedicels extra-axil- 
lary, one-flowered, about equalling the leaves. Flowers yellow. Calyx 
lobes short, bluntish, scabrous. Corolla with a short, funnel-sbaped 
tube, and a spreading or reflexed, 5-parted limb, glabrous within : lobes 
subacute. Outer corona cup-shaped, the margin shortly 10-toothed, the 
teeth in pairs alternating with the stamens; the interspaces minutely 
bidentulate. nner corona of 5 subulate processes, one opposite each 
stamen. Anthers without membrane. Pollen-masses erect, incurved, 
basifixed, ovoid, pellucid at the extremity, 
A minute plant, allied to Brachystelma, from which it differs in 
corolla and corona. I have only seen the single specimen found by 
Mr. Hutton, and now placed in the Dublin Uniy. Herbarium. 
Fig. 1, a plant ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower ; 3, corolla laid open ; 4, corona- 
staminea, enclosing the Synostegium ; 5, portion of the corona, epened out, seen from 
within, with three stamens in situ; 6, 7, front and side view of stamens; 8, pollen- 
masses: all magnified. 
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115. SISYRANTHUS VIRGATUS, E. Mey. (Asclepiadee.) 
S. virgatus; caule foliisque glaberrimis, umbella multiflora hispi- 
dula, bracteis calycibusque ciliatis, corolle laciniis oblongis obtusis 
acutisve introrsum densissime barbatis, antheraruam membrana ciliata. 
£. Mey. Comm. Drege, p- 197, Dne. in DC. Prodr. 8, p. 649. 
Var. 8. trichostomus: caule foliisque parcissime pilosis, ambella 
multiflora, bracteis pedicellis calycibusque hispidis, corolla ad faucem 
barbata laciniis glabris, antherarum membrana ciliata. 
Has.—Grassy places, between Omsamwubo and the great cataract, Drege? Natal, 
J. Sanderson! 449. Lower Albany, H. Hutton! Kreili’s country, A. Bowker! Var, 
8. Natal, J. Sanderson! 136. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.— Roots of several thick, fleshy fibres. Stem solitary, about 
2 feet high, slender, virgate, unbranched, glabrous, distantly leafy. 
Leaves linear, 4~5 inches long, 1-14 line wide, tapering at base, acute, 
one-nerved, with recurved margins; axils often bearded. Umbels on 
short peduncles or subsessile, 10, 20, 30-flowered, the bracts, pedicels, 
and calyces more or less hispid. Corolla subeampanulate, its oblong or 
ovate-oblong lobes densely bearded within; in B. bearded only at the 
apex. Anthers tipped by a ciliate scale in both varieties, 
the apex, the apiculus wart-shaped, ciliate.’ J find the corona-seg- 
ments shortly tricuspidate, not ciliate, and the anthers tipped by a 
ciliate scale. Are our plants different? 
Fig. 1, a plant; natural size. Fig. 2, a flower: 3, two of the corolla lo seen 
from within; 4, back and front view of one of the corona-segments : 5, Bacio of an 
anther; 6, pollen-masses ; all magni fied, 
