Pachyecarpus. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 731 
Swaziland ; near Mafutane, 1500 ft., Bolus, 12127! near Bremersdorp, Bolus, 
12128! Burtt Davy, 3059! 3060! 
Partly described from flowers preserved in fluid. A few specimens above quoted 
have the terminal part of the corona-lobes slightly 3-lobed, these are probably of 
hybrid origin. The number 293 was also given by Bowker to Krebsia stenoglossa, 
and 3059, 3060, by Burtt Davy also respectively to P, schinzianus, and Asclepias 
eminens. 
16. P. transvaalensis (N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i, 376) ; 
stem 1 ft. or more high, simple, stout, more or less scabrous ; leaves 
in 7-8 pairs on the specimen seen, sessile or subsessile, mostly 24-3 
in. long, $-1 in. broad at the base, the lower pairs smaller, narrowly 
or broadly oblong-lanceolate, acute, subtruncate or subcordate at 
the base, very scabrous on both sides and at the edges; umbels 5 
on the specimen seen, lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 4—5- 
flowered ; peduncles 4-1 in. long, scabrous; pedicels }-} in. long, 
stout, scabrous ; sepals 44-54 Jin. long, 24 lin. broad, lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, scabrous; corolla-lobes apparently 
slightly ascending-spreading, 7-8 lin. long, 5-54 lin. broad at the 
middle, elliptic-ovate, subacute, pubescent (subscabrous?) with 
minute adpressed scattered hairs on the back, glabrous on the inner 
face, purple-brown ; corona-lobes 4-4} lin. long, somewhat rigidly 
fleshy, dark purple-brown, rhomboid-ovate, 2 lin. broad and 
horizontally spreading at the basal part, thickened on the upper side 
into a large hump-like mass longitudinally divided by a deep fissure, 
truncate at the base with an excavation on each side of the fissure, 
and rising to about half the height of the 2} lin.-long staminal 
column, beyond the hump the lobe contracts into the narrowly 
oblong or tongue-shaped obtuse upper half 14-1} lin. broad, which 
incurves over the basal part ; anther-appendages transverse, rounded, 
inflexed over the margin of the truncate style-apex. Gomphocarpus 
transvaalensis, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 22, and 
19 in note. Asclepias transvaalensis, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1896, 455. 
Katanari Recion: Transvaal ; Saddleback Mountain, near Barberton, 3000- 
4500 ft., Galpin, 692b (592b ex Schlechter) ! 
17. P. insignis (N. E. Br.); stem 9-16 in. high, erect, simple, 
adpressed-scaberulous along 2 broad lines, or according to Schlechter 
“ pilose-scabrous ” ; leaves ascending, shortly petiolate, 2-3} in. long, 
3-3? in. broad at the base, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, narrowly oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, subtruncate or broadly 
cuneate at the base, flat or slightly undulate at the margins, with a 
spreading pubescence (pilose-scabrous, Schlechter) on both sides, 
somewhat scabrous on the midrib beneath and scabrous-pubescent 
on the margins ; umbels lateral at the nodes and terminal, peduncu- 
late 3-4-flowered ; peduncles 3-1} in. long, scabrous-pubescent ; 
pedicels 4-5 lin. long, scabrous-pubescent ; sepals 34-4 lin. long, 
about 2 lin. broad, ovate, acute or acuminate, spreading-pubescent ; 
