il dcteate 
CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 61 
oled, 4-5 inches long, 3-4 lines wide, truncate or hastate at base, 
linear, tapering to a long, acute point, glabrous on both sides, with 
strongly revolute margins. Umbels short-peduncled, terminal, several 
or many-flowered. Corolla “dull white,” greenish outside, 5-parted ; 
the lobes strongly reflexed, lanceolate, opaque, with a narrow white 
margin. Gynostegium stipitate. Corona erect, 2-3 times longer than 
the gynostege ; its folioles somewhat spathulate, mucronate, dorsally 
ribbed, with rounded upper angles, the inflexed plates tapering to a 
narrow base. 
This agrees in habit with several of the smaller species of Gompho- 
carpus, but is readily known by its “ em¢nent’’ corona, which so greatly 
overtops the gynostegium. 
Fig. 1, flowering stem; the natural size. Fig. 2, section of corolla; 3, corona, sur- 
rounding and overtopping the andreecium ; 4, folicle of corona; 95, the andreecium, after 
removal of corona; 6, anther, inside view; 7, pollen masses; all magnified. 
196. BRACHYSTELMA GERRARDI, Harv. (Asclepiadec.) 
B. Gerrardi; radice . . . . , caule erecto 1-2 pedali subsimplici 
piloso, foliis ovatis basi-cordatis penninerviis rigide setosis, pedicellis 
folio brevioribus, calycis laciniis parvis ovatis costatis longe aristatis, 
corolla tubo brevi, limbi laciniis tubo triplo longioribus apice liberis 
panduriformibus intus sub apicem nigro-velutinis marginibus intro- 
flexis infra medium elegantissime ciliatis, ciliis infiexis glanduligeris, 
corone lobis primariis linearibus. 
Has.—Emyati, Natal, W. T. Gerrard, 1818, (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—Root unknown. Stem 1-2 feet high, simple or perhaps 
branched. Leaves short-petioled, cordate at base, broadly ovate, sub- 
acute, 1-11 inches long, 3-1 inch wide, rather longer than the inter- 
nodes, hairy, especially on the nerves and veins. Flowers axillary, 
solitary, on slender petioles. Calyz-lobes broad and short, glabrous, 
with a thick, hispid midrib, continued into a long, awnlike point. 
Corolla of a very dark, blackish-green colour, velvety on the inside of 
its lobes above, and pale yellow below, with a short, broad, campanu- 
late tube; lobes somewhat fiddle-shaped, broad at top and bottom, con- 
tracted in the middle, the margins inflexed and elegantly ciliated in 
their lower half with inflexed, gland-tipped, purple cilia. Lobes of the 
corona-staminea opposite the anther, linear erect, subacute. 
A very handsome and a very remarkable species of Brachystelma, 
with much broader and shorter corolla-lobes than usual, and specially 
distinguished by the inflexed, glandular cilia. The stem is taller and 
stiffer than common, and seems to be unbranched. Whether or not it 
has the tuberous root common to others of the genus is not known. 8 
name it in honour of its discoverer, as one of the most curious of the 
many curious Asclepiads which we owe to his researches. 
