720 ASCLEPIADEA: (Brown). [ Pachycarpus. 
yellow, dilated into 2 deltoid rounded auricles or transversely 
rhomboid at the horizontally spreading base, which is concave 
beneath, then abruptly contracted into a linear or linear-spathulate 
blade 2-1 lin. broad and subacute, obtuse, emarginate or more 
or less 3-lobed or 3-toothed at the apex, channelled down 
the back, convex or keeled down the inner face and abruptly 
incurved over the style-apex, with 2 erect contiguous keels 1-1} 
lin. high and broad on the basal part, straight on the inner, 
rounded on the dorsal margin, obtuse ; staminal column 2 lin. long ; 
anther-appendages orbicular-reniform, very obtuse, inflexed on the 
rim of the depressed style-apex ; follicles solitary, about 34 in. long, 
13 in. thick, ovoid, obtuse, more or less winged at the upper part, 
coriaceous, glabrous. Gomphocarpus scaber, Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 58, 
t. 192; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 37. Asclepias 
scabra, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 454, and Ann. Naturhist. 
Hofmus. Wien, xv. 68. 
Kananart Recon: Transvaal; Endholixana, near Piet Retief, Lady Barkly, 
2! Elandspruit Mountains, 6200 ft., Schlechter, 3877. 
Eastern Recion : Griqualand East ; around Clydesdale, T'yson, 2165 ! Natal ; 
Inanda, Wood, 178! 468! Greenwich Farm, Riet Vlei, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 
2745 ! Umkomanzi Valley, Krook, 821 (ex Schlechter). Zululand, Gerrard, 1285 ! 
Swaziland ; Middel Veld. between Mbabane and Bremersdorp, 2600 ft., Bolus, 
12124! High Veld, between Mbabane and Oshoek, 5000 ft., Bolus, 12125! 
between Bremersdorp and MacNabs store, Burtt Davy, 2932! 
4. P. reflectens (E. Meyer, Comm. 210); stem 1-1} ft. high, 
simple, stout, bifariously puberulous and more or less scabrous ; 
leaves ascending or spreading ; petiole 1—4 lin. long ; blade 13-3 mm. 
long, }-1} in. broad, lanceolate, ovate or oblong, or the uppermost 
linear or linear-lanceolate, scabrous on both sides and at the 
margins or glabrous above ; umbels lateral at the nodes and 
terminal, sessile or the lowest pedunculate, 2-3-flowered ; peduncle 
0—} in. long, pubescent and scabrous ; bracts 3—4 lin. long, linear- 
subulate, deciduous; pedicels }—1 in. long, harshly pubescent ; 
sepals 4-5 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, roughly 
pubescent ; corolla-lobes always reflexed nearly straight-back, 
5-8 lin. long, rather narrowly lanceolate-attenuate from the very 
revolute margins, but oblong and 3}~4 lin. broad when flattened 
out, acute, slightly scabrous-pubescent on the back or glabrous on 
both sides, apparently pale-greenish or greenish-white, usually 
spotted with purple ; corona-lobes 34-5 lin. long ; basal part 
horizontally spreading from the base of the staminal column, claw- 
like, dilated at the very base, bearing 2 erect closely contiguous 
oblong or subfaleate-oblong lobes always higher than proad, 1-2 lin. 
high, 3-1 lin. broad ; terminal part dilated into an orbicular-ovate 
or transversely elliptic erect blade 24-3} lin. long, 3-4 lin. broad, 
obtuse, or retuse with a short inflexed linear apical point, broadly 
rounded or subtruncate at the base ; staminal column about 3 lin. 
long ; anther-appendages rather large, ovate, obtuse, with the sides 
