LXXX. ASCLEPIADE^. 235 



usually truncate at base, with salient angles. Otlier charac- 

 ters as in Xysmalohium. 



Erect herbs, with the habit of Xz/smalohiuin, but a difTerent corona. 

 Tliere are several species, having the largest flowers of any of the alUed 

 genera. By Decaisne (DC. Prod. viii. p. 562) the?e plants are included in 

 Gomphocarpusy but the structure of the corona is very different, as is also 

 the form of corolla. 



17. GOMPHOCARPUS, R. Br. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, 5-parted, mostly reflexed. 

 Corona 5-parted, erect or suberect, as long as the gynostege 

 or much longer, complicate-cucuUate, laterally compressed, the 

 margins strongly inllexed, the inflexion greatest above, where 

 the angles are often salient, directed toward the stigma ; apex 

 cither truncate or variously twisted. Other characters as in 

 Xi/smalohiwn.—DC. Prod. vii. p. 556 ; Thes. Cap. t. 67, 97, 192-5. 



Shrubs undershrubs or erect herbs, with opposite leaves. Peduncles ter- 

 minal and intcrpetiolar, umbellately many-flowered. Flowers mediocre, 

 smaller tlian in Pachycarpus. — Many species, dispersed; several still uu- 

 described. 



18. FA]^NI]?3"IA, Harv. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla rotate, 5-parted ; segments flat, 

 spreading, bearded at apex. Corona 5-leaved ; folioles hori- 

 zontally spreading, longer than the gynostege, flat, oblong, 

 obtuse, with a medial nerve, furnished at base on the inside 

 with two collateral, tongue-like processes. Anthers mem- 

 brane-tipped. PoUinia compressed, obovate, pendulous. Stigma 

 depressed-pentagonal. Follicles ? 



F. caloglossa, H., the only species, is a small, pubescent herb, with op- 

 posite, oblong leaves. Pedixncles intcrpetiolar, umbelled. Flowers ^-| 

 inch across, handsome. — Discovered at the Dargle Farm, Natal, by Mr. 

 George Fannin (n. 49), to whose honour this genus is dedicated. 



19. LAGARINTHUS, E. Mey. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-parted, rotate, the lobes erect 

 or spreading. Corona 5-parted ; folioles free, dilated at base, 

 furnished with a tongue-shaped process on the inner side. 

 Anthers tipped with a broadish membrane. Pollinia com- 

 pressed, taper-pointed, suspended. Stigma depressed, ob- 

 scurely 5-angled. Pellicles smooth, fusiform. — DC. Prod. viii. 

 p. 555. 



Erect, slender herbs, with narrow leaves. Flowers sjnall, green or 

 brownish, in exti*a-axillary peduncles, umbellate. — i< or 5 species, dispersed. 



20. ASPIDOGLOSSUM, E. Mey. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-parted, rotate. Corona 5-parted 



