Pachycarpus. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 735 
Var. B, elatocarinatus (N. E. Br.) ; corolla yellow spotted with purple-brown ; 
keels of the corona-lobes rising to the level of the tops of the anther-wings at the 
base ; otherwise as in the type. 
Var. y, chrysanthus (N. E. Br.); corolla entirely yellow ; keels of the corona- 
lobes rising to the level of the tops of the anther-wings or slightly beyond ; other- 
wise as in the type. Asclepias grandiflora, var. chrysantha, Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb, xxi. Beibl. 54, 7, and Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 68. 
Var. 5, tomentosus (N. E. Br.); stem, leaves, peduncles, pedicels and sepals 
all thickly villous-tomentose, but slightly harsh to the touch ; corolla and corona- 
lobes as in var. 8. Gomphocarpus grandiflorus, var. tomentosus, Schlechter in 
ingl. Jahrb. xviii, Beibl. 45, 19. 
Coast Reaton: Humansdorp Div. ; near the Kromme River, Thunberg! 
Uitenhage Div. ; region around Uitenhage, Burchell, 4421! 4440! 4449! Zeyher! 
Addo, Drége, 2222! Van Stadens Berg, Zeyher, 630! Port Elizabeth Div. ; near 
Port Elizabeth, Prior! Miss West, 35! Albany Div. ; Albany plains, Bowie! near 
Grahamstown, MacOwan, 180! Misses Daly and Sole, 367! Bathurst Div. ; 
Linch’s Post, near the Kowie River, Bowie! Komgha Div. ; hills near Keimouth, 
Krook, 818 (ex Schlechter). Var. 8: King Williamstown Div. ; Keiskamma, 
Mrs. Hutton! Var. y: East London Div. ; near East London, Wood in Herb. 
Galpin, 3387 ! Komgha Div. ; near Komgha and near Keimouth, Flanagan, 375! 
Krook, 802 (ex Schlechter). 
Katawari Recon: Var. &: Transvaal; Carolina district, Burtt Davy, 2953! 
Umlomati Valley, near Barberton, 4000 ft., Galpin, 913 (ex Schlechter). 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East ; hills near Umzimkulu River, Arook, 791 
(ex Schlechter). Var. 8: Tembuland; Bazeia, Baur, 602! Natal; hills above 
Byrne, Wood, 3169! hill near Lynedoch, Wood in Herb. Natal, 962! Peak of 
Byrne, Wood in Herb, Natal, 589! near Durban Bay, Krauss, 1260 (ex Meisner). 
Var. y: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker ! 
Wood’s 589 is more hairy than usual and approaches var. tomentosus, 
22. P. linearis (N. E. Br.) ; stem 1-1} ft. high, simple, scabrous ; 
leaves erect, shortly petiolate, 3-5 in. long, 1-24 lin. broad, linear, 
acute, with revolute margins, scabrous above and on the midrib 
beneath ; umbel solitary, terminal, nodding, 3—5-flowered ; peduncle 
7-1} in. long, recurved at the apex, subscabrous ; bracts not seen ; 
pedicels 3-1 in. long, subscabrous ; sepals 3}-44 lin. long, 1-1} lin. 
broad, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent ; corolla probably subglobose 
and about 9-10 lin. in diam., but when dried often appearing 
broadly cup-shaped and 14-1} in. in diam., lobed to }-} of the 
way down, coarsely pubescent outside, glabrous within, “ yellowish- 
green, brownish outside at the base” (Baur), “purple and buff” 
(Bowker) ; tube } in. long; lobes 8-9 lin. long, 5-6 lin. broad, 
elliptic-ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse ; corona-lobes spreading at the 
basal part then much incurved or incurved-erect, 5-7 lin. long, linear, 
often lanceolately dilated below the acute apex, with 2 keels 
extending to beyond the middle, rising at the base to the level of 
the top of the anther-wings (14-2 lin. high) and there wing-like and 
toothed on the inner margin ; staminal column 44-5 lin. long, of 
which length the anther-appendages take up more than half, being 
3-34 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate-lenceolate or subhastate-lanceolate 
when flattened out, subacute, replicate, much exceeding and 
loosely curved over the large excavated style-apex, which has a very 
thick crenate rim. Lagarinthus linearis, E. Meyer, Comm. 207. 
