714 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Asclepias. 
56. A. Schlechteri (N. E. Br.); stem about 2 ft. high, 1 lin. 
thick at the base, simple, glabrous; leaves sessile, 2-4 in. long, 
1 lin. broad, linear, scabrous on the revolute margins, otherwise 
glabrous ; umbels lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, several-flowered ; 
peduncles 1-1} in. long ; pedicels 4} lin. long; sepals 2 lin. long, 
subulate, puberulous ; corolla-lobes about } in. long, oblong, obtuse, 
fimbriolate on the upper part, clear green ; corona-lobes much over- 
topping the style-apex, 3} lin. long, subulate, with the apex inflexed, 
dark purple red, with a pair of acute white wings on the inner face ; 
staminal column 14-1} lin. long. Gomphocarpus Schlechteri, K. 
Schum. in. Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 325. 
Eastern Recon: Pondoland; between Roskowe and Canham, Bachmann, 
1083. 
This appears (from description) to be very similar to A, expansa, Schlechter, 
and may prove to be that species. 
57. A. villosa (Mill. Dict. ed. 8, no. 14); stem fruticose ; leaves 
lanceolate, acute, covered on both sides with short hairs ; umbel 
solitary, erect (probably terminal), small, loose ; flowers white. 
Soutn Arrica, ex Miller. 
A specimen from Miller’s Herbarium named ‘A. villosa” in the British 
mop ty he A. physocarpa, Schlechter, and does not agree with Miller’s description 
of A, villosa. 
Asclepias nivea, Burm. f. Prodr. Cap. 7, is the same as A. nivea, Linn. Sp. 
Pl. ed. i, 215, and is not a native of South Africa but of the West Indies. 
Lagarinthus tenuis, Meisn. in Hook. London Journ. Bot. ii. 1848, 543 (by 
error 443), and Krauss in Flora, 1844, 826, not of E. Meyer, is only noted as 
follows :—‘‘ Our specimens differ from Droge’s only in having many-flowered 
umbels, and the corolla turned down.” I have not seen it. Possibly it may be 
the same as A. filiformis, Benth. ; but is stated to have been collected by Krauss 
near Swellendam, where A. filiformis is not known to occur. 
GomrHocarrus uNDULATUS (Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1848, i. 259, not 
of Schlechter) ; stem dwarf, firm; lower leaves obovate, obtuse, mucronulate, 
tapering into the petiole, upper leaves oblong, tapering at both ends, acute, wavy 
on the margin ; umbels lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 6-7-flowered ; corolla 
connivent ; corona-lobes equalling the staminal column, connate at the base, 
concave-carinate, winged-dentate on the margin, with the teeth directed inwards, 
terminated by a short somewhat obtuse apiculus. 
Coast Reaion: Alexandria Div.; Oliphants Hoek forest, below 300 ft., 
Ecklon, 36. 
I think it probable that this plant will prove to be Woodia mucronia, 
N. E. Br., and therefore refrain from giving it a new name under Asclepias. 
XIX. PACHYCARPUS, E. Meyer. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed, subglobose, cup-shaped, rotate 
or reflexed ; lobes overlapping in bud. Corona of 5 lobes arising at 
or near the base of the staminal column, usually long and flattened 
dorsally beneath or at least beyond the keels, never complicate- 
