Pachycarpus. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 721 
folded back, loosely incurved over (in fresh flowers probably inflexed 
upon) and nearly concealing the style-apex ; anther-wings 13—2 lin. 
long, much produced at the base, concave on the margin. LP. reflexus, 
Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2, ii. 245. Gomphocarpus reflectens, Decne in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 563; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 
45, 9. Xysmalobium reflectens, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 902. Asclepias 
reflectens, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54,9; Journ. Bot. 
1896, 453, and Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 68. 
Coast Reeron: Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 3500 ft., MacOwan, 860! 
Galpin, 1712 ! Queenstown Div. ; damp places by the Zwartkei River and on the 
Winter Berg, Mrs. Barber, 594! Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, Flanaghan, 16 ! 
Krook, 797, 803 (ex Schlechter). 
Eastern Recion : Transkei; near Gekau (Geua) River (ex Drége, but according 
to FE. Meyer between Fish River and Kap River in Bathurst Div.) Drége, 4934! 
Kreilis Country, Bowker! near Colossa, Krook, 809 (ex Schlechter). 
Very similar to P. appendiculatus and perhaps only a variety of that species, the 
flowers however are rather smaller and have a somewhat narrower appearance, 
whilst the fleshy keels on the base of the corona-lobes, viewed sideways, are 
always higher than broad. The fruit. in E. Meyer’s Herbarium, described as 
pyramidal, is less than 1 in. long and far too young to determine its mature shape. 
Drége’s 4934 is E. Meyer's type, but another specimen, collected by Drége 
between Zandplaat and Komgha, and named ‘* reflectens?’’ by E. Meyer, is 
P. appendiculatus. ‘ 
5. P. appendiculatus (E. Meyer, Comm. 210); stem 3-1} ft. 
high, simple, stout, varying from nearly glabrous to bifariously 
puberulous and more or less scabrous ; leaves spreading or ascend- 
ing ; petiole 1-4 lin. long; blade 14-34 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, 
varying from narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, acute, 
or obtuse and shortly apiculate, rounded or cuneate at the base, 
more or less scabrous beneath or on both sides, very scabrous on the 
margins ; umbels lateral at the nodes and terminal, sessile or the 
lowest pedunculate, 2-3-flowered ; peduncle 0—3 in. long, pubescent 
or scabrous ; bracts 2—4 lin. long, linear-subulate, very deciduous ; 
pedicels 4-1} in, long, scabrous or scabrous-pubescent on one side ; 
sepals 44-54 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, scabrous-pubescent ; corolla-lobes varying from 
recurved-spreading to reflexed straight back, 7-9 lin. long, 4—7 lin. 
broad when flattened out, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic-oblong or ovate, 
acute, usually nearly straight with very revolute margins, but 
sometimes rolled back from the tips, glabrous on both sides, 
apparently greenish white or light green on the inner face, often 
spotted with dark purple-brown on the back and sometimes on the 
inner face also ; corona-lobes 6-8 lin. long, spreading from the base 
of the staminal column at the elliptic or subquadrately rhomboid 
basal part, which is about 2 lin. broad and in fresh flowers seems 
formed of a fleshy ellipsoid mass with a cut-like longitudinal fissure, 
but in dried flowers appears to bear 2 erect parallel closely-con- 
tiguous wing-like keels always as broad or broader than high, 1}-2 
lin. high, 14-3 lin. broad, beyond which the lobe narrows into an 
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