728 ‘  ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [Pachycarpus. 
2-3 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, and together with the 
pedicels and bracts scabrous-pubescent ; corolla-lobes suberect, 
‘forming a cup, recurved at the tips, }-} in. long, 33-5 lin. broad, 
ovate or oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous on both sides or more or less 
scabrous-pubescent on the back at the tips, white, purple tinted at 
the tips on the back ; corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal 
column, }—} in. long, erect or slightly incurving upwards, white or 
pale lemon-yellow with a violet-purple stripe down the inner face ; 
upper half elliptic-lanceolate or dilated into a rather large concave 
hood, obtuse or acute at the incurved apex, basal half linear-oblong, 
bearing 2 contiguous fleshy deltoid erect acute teeth not reaching to 
the top of the 24-3 lin.-long staminal column ; anther-appendages 
broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, inflexed on the top of the style-apex, 
which is truncate with a central star-like depression ; follicles 
solitary, 3-4} in. long, 1 in. thick, lanceolate or fusiform, obtusely- 
pointed, 6-winged, glabrous; seeds 24 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, 
narrowly ovate or ovate-oblong, thick, with the margins much 
incurved, forming a rather deep channel on one side, very convex 
on the other, covered on both sides with minute raised tubercles 
and lines, dark brown. Gomphocarpus schinzianus, Schlechter im 
Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 37. Asclepias schinziana, Schlechter in 
Journ. Bot. 1896, 455; Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 200. 
KaaHari Recion: Orange River Colony; Parys, Rogers, §00! Transvaal ; 
Magaliesberg Range, Burke, 99! 359! Zeyher, 1161! various localities near 
Pretoria, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 3085! Bolus, 12131! Rehmann, 4405! Burtt 
Davy, 683! 816! 2137! 8059! Miss Pegler, 1020! Miss Leendertz, 325! 468! 
Pinedene, Burtt Davy, 2303! Irene, Burtt Davy, 751! 3242! Springbok Flats, 
Burtt Davy, 2128! near Heidelberg, Schlechter, 3528 ! Rustenberg, Miss Pegler, 
1020! Yster Spruit, Nelson, 825! Linokana, Holub! Matebe Valley, Holub t 
High Veld, Adlam, 5! Modderfontein, Conrath, 1001! Johannesburg, Ommanney, 
69! Rand, 862! 963! 964! 1010! 1229! Pilgrims Rest, @reenstock ! 
Burtt Davy 3059, from Bremersdorp, belongs to P. concolor. 
14. P. dealbatus (E. Meyer, Comm. 211); stem 3-1} ft. high, 
simple, stout, varying from nearly glabrous to densely hairy 
pubescent or sometimes scabrous-pubescent, at least along 2 broad 
lines ; leaves ascending or spreading ; petiole 2—5 lin. long ; blade 
14-33 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, linear-lanceolate to broadly oblong. 
or elliptic, acute, obtuse or retuse and apiculate, broadly rounded to 
cuneate at the base, scabrous on both sides and on the margins or 
glabrous above ; umbels lateral at the nodes, sessile or the lowest: 
shortly pedunculate, 3-6-flowered ; pedicels 4-10 lin. long, sub- 
glabrous or scaberulous to densely subtomentose ; sepals Z as tong 
as the corolla, 5-7 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, 
from thinly and minutely pubescent to somewhat scabrous ; corolla 
globose-campanulate, 7-9 lin. in diam., quite glabrous, pale green, 
spotted with purple-brown (Wood); lobes erect, with imbricating 
margins and recurved tips, 5-8 lin. long, 34-44 lin. broad, ovate, 
acute, very concave at the lower part; corona-lobes 4-5 lin. long, 
spreading from the base of the staminal column then abruptly 
