734 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). | Pachycarpus. 
lin. high at the broadly rounded (not angular) base, connate and 
perhaps slightly cucullate at the apex; staminal column 4 lin. 
long ; anther-appendages suborbicular, with their rounded tips 
incurved over the margin of the truncate style-apex. Gomphocarpus 
coronarius, Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 562. Xysmalobium coronarium, 
Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 902. 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; near the Bashee River at Fort Bowker, Bowker, 
379! Tembuland ; near the Umtata River, Drége, 4930 ! 
Although very like P. grandiflorus, E. Meyer, the very large sepals, much more 
deeply lobed corolla, and different corona-lobes readily distinguish it. 
21. P. grandiflorus (E. Meyer, Comm. 209) ; plant 8-20 in. high ; 
stem usually simple, 14-3 lin. thick below, pubescent, with inter- 
nodes }—1 in. long; leaves spreading or somewhat deflexed ; petiole 
1§-6 lin. long; blade 13-4} in. long, 4—14 lin. broad, oblong or 
lanceolate, acute, obtuse, or rounded and apiculate at the apex, 
rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, usually undulate at the 
margins, somewhat roughly pubescent or subscabrous on both sides 
or glabrous above ; umbels 2—4-flowered, sessile at the nodes or the 
lowest shortly pedunculate ; pedicels 4-1 in. long, pubescent ; sepals 
6-9 lin. long, 3-3} lin. broad, lanceolate, very acute, pubescent ; 
corolla about 1} in. in diam., inflated-globose, thinly pubescent 
outside or glabrous on both sides, yellow or yellowish-green, spotted 
with dark purple-brown ; united part 6-7 lin. long; lobes 8-9 lin. 
long, 9-11 lin. broad, broadly ovate, acute, incurved, with overlapping 
margins and recurved tips ; corona-lobes very spreading, with much 
incurved tips, } in. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, sometimes some- 
what spathulate at the tips, bearing upon their basal half 2 long 
contiguous keels, which at the angular base do not nearly rise to 
the level of the top of the anther-wings, then gradually tapering 
into the lobe, apparently yellow, often dotted with purple-brown ; 
staminal column 34-4 lin. long, broadly conical ; anther-appendages 
suborbicular or elliptic-ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the rim of the 
truncate 5-crenate excavated style-apex ; pollen-carriers seated just 
below therim of the style-apex ; follicles solitary, about 3} in. long, 
7-1 in. thick, stoutly fusiform-lanceolate, equally tapering to base 
and apex, obtuse, with 6 entire wings 1-1} lin. broad, thinly and 
minutely puberulous. Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 
544 (by error 444) ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 826. Asclepias grandiflora, 
Linn. f. Suppl. 170; Lam.. Eneyel. i. 284; Thunb. Prodr. 47 ; i 
Nov. Act. Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805), 509 ; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 156, and 
ed. Schultes, 235 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1264 ; Pers, Syn. i. 275 ; Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1896, 451 (eacluding synonyms Pachycarpus coronarius 
and Gonphocarpus coronarius); Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 73 
and Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 67. Xysmalobium grandi- 
Hlorum, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 39 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 90 ; 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 850; G@. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 146 ; Dietr. Syn. Pi. 
ii. 902 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 519. Gomphocarpus grandiflorus, 
Decne, l.c. 562 ; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 8. 
