Puate 2744. 
PARAPODIUM CRISPUM, ¥. £, Brown. 
ASCLEPIADACER, Tribe CynANcHE. 
P. crispum, V. EZ. Brown (sp. nov.) ; a P. costato, EB. Sit foliis 
angustioribus crispatis breviter petiolatie facile ditioguita 
Herba perennis, 5-8 poll. alta. _Caulis erectus, va ae bifariam 
ubineu 
crispato- undulata. Ombetice ad hae laterales, arte we, 3~4- 
flore. Peduneuli 1-25 lin. longi. Pedicej]i 3-4 lin. longi. Sepala 
3-4 lin. longa, 3 lin. lata, lansichets at: acuta, glabra. Corolla 
glabra ; tubus are lin. longus, globoso-campanulatus ; lobi 2-24 lin. 
longi, Jals lin. lati, ovato-lanceolati, subacuti, basi concavi, apice 
recu Coronee lobi corolle tubo inferne adnati, superne liberi, 
Scahavatas oblongi, 13-14 lin. lati. Colwmnq staminum breviter 
s tipitata, conica ; antherze appendices oblong®, acute, conniventes, ad 
apicem crateriformem styli attingentes. —Pachycarpus ek aati ges 
ey.in Herb. Drége, a, non descript. jin Comm. Pl. Afr. A 
p. 213. 
Soutn Arrica: on the Sneeuwberg Range, near Graaf Reinet at 
4,100 feet, Bolus ; on grassy hills near secre at 4,000 feet, Drége 
for about sixty years, one of them collected by Drege and distributed 
under a wrong name ; the other, collected by Burke in 1841, is named, 
South African Asclepiadaces, and has had the ees of seeing 
Drége’s herbarium, eed cae —— xxl, Beibl. 54, p. 3) that 
Drége’s specimen of Parapodium costatum is identical oh Asclepias 
orbicularis, Schltr. (Typist settles Dietr.). If this is the 
