722 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Pachycarpus. 
upeurved claw, then expands into a lanceolate, ovate, elliptic or 
suborbicular blade 3—7 lin. long, 2—4 lin. broad, acute, acuminate or 
more or less retuse and cuspidate with a linear point at the apex, 
cuneate or subtruncate at the base, entire or crenulate, abruptly 
ineurved or arched over the basal keels and with the sides more or 
less folded back; staminal column 34-44 lin. long ; anther-appen- 
dages rather large, ovate, obtuse, inflexed upon or in dried flowers 
loosely arching over the top of the style-apex ; anther-wings 24 lin. 
long, much produced at the base, concave along the margin ; 
follicles solitary, subglobose or ellipsoid, very obtuse, narrowly 
winged, glabrous, very thick and spongy, 1}-in. long, 14 in. thick in 
the immature specimen seen in E. Meyer’s Herbarium. Gomphocarpus 
appendiculatus, Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 562 ; Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 39. G. macroglossus, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. 
Mose. 1848, i. 259. Xysmalobium appendiculatum, Dietr. Syn. Pi. ii. 
902. Asclepias appendiculata, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 
54,5; and Journ. Bot. 1896, 452. 
Coast Recion: Bedford Div.; near Bedford, Mrs. Hutton! East London 
Div. ; near East London, 100 ft., Wood in Herb. Galpin, 3386! Komgha Div. ; 
near Komgha, 2000 ft., Flanagan, 1239! British Kaffraria, Mrs. Hutton ! 
Eastern Recon: Tembuland ; near Morley, Drége, 4933 ! Pondoland ; near 
Isinuka, atthe mouth of St. Johns River, Bolus, 10207! Natal ; Krantz Kloof, 
1400 ft., Schlechter, 3216. Zululand, Gerrard, 1286! Swaziland ; near Bremers- 
dorp, Burtt Davy, 2936 ! 3065! between Bremersdorp and Mbabane (Embabaan), 
2500 ft., Bolus, 12122! near Mafutane, 1500 ft., Bolus, 12126! 
The Bremersdorp specimen (Burtt Davy, 3065) may possibly be a hybrid 
between P. appendiculatus and P. validus, the foliage and corolla much resembling 
the latter, whilst the corona is like that of P. appendiculatus. 
6. P. inconstans (N. E. Br.); stem simple, 1-2 ft. high, stout, 
more or less scabrous along 2 broad lines, sometimes nearly smooth ; 
leaves spreading ; petiole 2-4 lin. long; blade of the middle and 
lower leaves 14-31 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, oblong or lanceolate, 
acute, or obtuse and apiculate, cuneate or rounded at the base, 
scabrous on the margins and thinly so on both sides or nearly or 
quite smooth above; umbels sessile or the lower pedunculate, 
lateral at the nodes, 5—6- (rarely 7-10-) flowered ; peduncle 0-10 lin. 
long, scabrous on one side; bracts 2}—4 lin. long, very deciduous, 
linear, acute ; pedicels 2-1 in. long, more or less scabrous ; sepals 
34-41 lin. long, 1$-2 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat 
acuminate, pubescent, ciliate ; corolla-lobes about 7 lin. long, 3}—- 
4} lin. broad, reflexed, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtusely pointed, 
revolute along the margins, twisted, glabrous on both sides or thinly 
pubescent on the back, often slightly rugulose (perhaps from 
shrinkage in drying) on the inner face ; corona-lobes very variable, 
seated at the base of the staminal column, 14-34 lin. long, usually 
consisting of 2 contiguous erect fleshy keels, varying from less than 
half as high to as high as the anthers, in side view broader than high 
or higher than broad, very obtuse or obliquely acute, arising from 
an ovate or lanceolate recurved-spreading base, which is more or less 
