Asclepias peltigera (E.Mey.) Schltr.

Stem solitary, simple, 1-3 ft. high, puberulous on the upper part, glabrous below, with internodes 1-3 in. long; leaves subsessile, mostly 3 1/2-4 1/2 in. long, 3/4-1 1/2 (rarely 2-3) lin. broad, linear, acute or obtuse at the apex, subtruncate or auriculate at the base, widely spreading or with the upper part curved upwards, sometimes deflexed, usually scabrous above and on the midrib beneath, rarely glabrous; umbels 2-5, lateral at the nodes and terminal, racemose, rarely solitary and terminal, 3-4-flowered; peduncles 1/2-1 in. long, puberulous; bracts none; pedicels 1/2-3/4 in. long, puberulous; sepals 1 1/2-1 3/4 lin. long, 2/3-3/4 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent; corolla-lobes 4-4 1/2 lin. long, 2 1/2-3 lin. broad, narrowly elliptic or elliptic-oblong, notched at the obtuse apex, very spreading or perhaps reflexed, pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face, apparently sometimes white, sometimes purple with white margins, purple on the back; corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column shorter than and adnate to it, 2-2 1/2 lin. high, oblong in side view, dorsally divided to the base, from which arises an erect lobe shaped like a fish-tail and reaching to about half way up, apparently white or yellowish, with the apex of the fish-tail-lobe purplish or orange-red tinted; staminal column 2 3/4-3 lin. long; anther-appendages half-orbicular, obtuse, inflexed over the margin of the slightly depressed-truncate style-apex; young follicles fusiform, minutely tomentose.