Pachycarpus. | ASCLEPIADES (Brown). 719 
lin. long, 24-3 lin. broad, erect, with spreading tips, ovate or 
elliptic-ovate, acute from the margins being revolute, concave at 
the lower part, glabrous on both sides, apparently pale-greenish, 
stained with purple-brown on the back ; corona-lobes about 34-4 lin. 
long, erect, slightly curved, linear at the basal part, without keels 
or crests on the inner face, dilated in the upper half into a flat erect 
blade, 2-24 lin. long, 24-3 lin. broad, orbicular-rhomboid, entire or 
slightly trilobulate, usually very obtuse, rarely acute, cuneate at the 
base, dark chocolate-coloured ; staminal column 2-24 lin. long; 
anther-appendages broadly ovate, acute, closely inflexed over the 
crenate rim of the crater-like style-apex ; anther-wings slightly more 
than 1 lin. long, broadest at the base, with straight margins ; 
follicles solitary, in the immature specimen seen, 3 in. long, 1 in. 
thick, narrowly ellipsoid-fusiform, nearly equally narrowed at each 
end, subacute, broadly 6-winged, glabrous. Xysmalobium rigidum, 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 902. Gomphocarpus rigidus, Deene in DC. Prodr. 
viii, 563. Asclepias rigida, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 
54, 9, and in Journ Bot. 1895, 357 and 1896, 453. 
Var. 8, tridens (E. Meyer, l.c.); blade of the corona-lobes very broadly 
cuneate, 3-lobed at the top; lateral lobes horizontal or very slightly ascending, 
obtuse or rounded; middle lobes 4-1} lin. long, transverse to linear, obtuse, 
incurved or erect ; oth¢rwise as in the type. Gomphocarpus rigidus, var. tridens, 
Deene in DC. Prodr, viii. 563. ~~ 
Coast Recion: Var. 8: Queenstown Div. ; Lesseyton Nek, 3800-4000 ft., 
Galpin, 2277! 
CrnTRAL Raion: Tarkastad Div. ; Wildschuts Berg, Drége! Aliwal North 
Div. ; Elands Hoek, near Aliwal North, Bolus, 10496! 10555! Var. 8: Aliwal 
North Diy. ; at the foot of the Witte Bergen, Drége, 6393 ! 
Katanari Recion: Orange River Colony; near Bethlehem, Bolus, 8116! 
Basutoland ; Matelas Peak, Thode, 34! Transvaal ; Mooi River, Burke! between 
New Denmark and Morganson, Burtt Davy, 1004! Ermelo Road, Burtt Davy, 958 
(including var. 8)! Var. 8: Orange River Colony; Bethlehem, Richardson / 
Transvaal; Witkleifontein, Burtt Davy, 3122! 
Drége’s localities are copied from the original labels in the Herbarium of 
E. Meyer, who has transposed them in his Commentariorum, p. 211. 
3. P. scaber (N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 377) ; stem 
1-2 ft. high, 2-4 lin. thick, glabrous or slightly scabrous ; leaves 
shortly petiolate, 2-3} in. long, }-2} in, broad, oblong, elliptic- 
oblong or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, apiculate, rounded or very broadly 
cuneate at the base, glabrous above, more or less scabrous beneath, 
very scabrous at the margins ; umbels 1—4, subcorymbose at the top 
of the stem, 5—8-flowered ; peduncles 1-1} in. long, more or less 
scabrous or almost glabrous ; bracts about } in. long, linear or linear- 
subulate, acute ; pedicels 3-1 in. long, scabrous ; sepals about } in. 
long, 2-2} lin. broad, ovate, acute, scabrous ; corolla-lobes reflexed- 
spreading, about 5 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate, minutely notched at 
the obtuse apex, glabrous on both sides, revolute along the margins, 
white (Wood, and Tyson), primrose-yellow (Bolus) ; corona-lobes 
arising at the base of the staminal column, 4-5} lin. long, white or 
