Pachycarpus. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown), 737 
lobes 4-6 lin. long, 4-9 lin. broad ; corona-lobes 13-3 lin. long, linear, with the 
keels extending to about the middle or beyond. Gomphocarpus linearis, Schlechter 
in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 20, and xx. Beibl. 51, 32, not of Decne. 
Asclepias linearis, Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 1896, 453, partly, and Ann. Naturhist. 
Hofmus. Wien, xv. 68. 
Coast Recion: Var. B: King Williamstown Div. ; near Keiroad Station, 
Krook, 801 (ex Schlechter). 
Katawart ReGion: Var. B: Orange River Colony, Cooper, 2732! 2734! 
Basutoland, Cooper, 936! 2731! Transvaal; Macmac, Mudd! Houtbosch, 
Rehmann, 5871! Saddleback Mountain, near Barberton, Galpin, 1366, and 
Elands River Mountain, Schlechter, 3999 (ex Schlechter) ; Belfast, Burtt Davy, 
1285 ! near Vlakfontein Beacon, Burtt Davy, 2967! near Spitz Kop, Wilms, 942! 
Graskop, near Pilgrims, Burtt Davy, 1463! 
EASTERN REGION : Griqualand East ; Enshlenzi Mountain, near Fort William, 
2500 ft., Tyson, 3132! Natal; near Durban, Sanderson! Dargle Farm, 
Mrs. Fannin, 5! Inanda, Wood, 79! 1326! hills near Charlestown, Wood, 5151 
mixed with var. 8! and without precise locality,, Gerrard, 2161! 2164! 
Sutherland! Var. B: Tembuland ; Engcobo Mountain, 4500 ft., Bolus, 10552! 
Griqualand East ; Mount Frere, Schlechter, 6412 ! Krook, 798! Natal; Mohlamba. 
Range, 5000-6000 ft., Sutherland ! Biggars Berg, Gerrard, 1298 ! 
The variety Sutherlandi is the plant that has hitherto been mistaken for 
Gomphocarpus linearis of Dietrich, aud of Decaisne, from which it is readily dis- 
tinguished by the very different corona-lobes and anther-appendages. It only 
appears to differ from typical P. campanulatus in its much smaller corolla and 
shorter corona-lobes, for although the specimens with the smallest flowers 
(Sutherland, Cooper, 936, 2374, &c.) seem quite distinct in appearance, other 
Specimens (Schlechter, 6412, Burtt Davy, 1285, 2967, &c.) with larger flowers 
Seem to connect it with typical P. campanulatus. In the process of drying, the 
globose form of the corolla of this and allied species is usually altered so that it 
appears to be broadly cup-shaped. 
24. P. Gerrardi (N. E. Br.) ; stem usually simple, 9-15 in. high, 
rather roughly pubescent ; leaves erect, 23-5 in. long, #24 lin. 
broad, linear, acute, scabrous above and on the midrib beneath ; 
umbels usually 2 or 3, racemose, or in weak plants solitary, 8—13- 
flowered ; peduncles #-1 in. long, often slightly recurved at the top, 
somewhat roughly pubescent ; bracts 2—3 lin. long, linear-subulate, 
very deciduous ; pedicels 8-9 lin. long, slightly scaberulous ; sepals 
3-33 lin, long, 3-1 lin. broad, attenuate-lanceolate, very acute, 
pubescent ; corolla globose or globose-campanulate, campanulate in 
the dried state, lobed to about half-way down, 7-8 lin. in diam. ; 
apparently whitish, suffused with purplish-brown outside and there 
pubescent with white and brown hairs, glabrous within ; tube 3 lin. 
long ; lobes 3-3} lin. long, 34-4 lin. broad, broadly ovate, obtuse, 
probably incurved ; corona-lobes 1-2 lin. long, ? lin. broad, very 
Spreading, oblong-linear, flat, rounded at the apex, purple-brown, 
with 2 paler broadly deltoid keels $ lin. high at the base; staminal 
column 1} lin. long ; anther-appendages } lin. long, oblong-linear, 
obtuse, connivent over and concealing the rather smal] truncate 
shortly 5-lobed style-apex ; young carpels covered with brown hairs. 
Gomphocarpus Gerrardi, Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 59, t. 193. Schizo- 
glossum Gerardi, Benth. and Hook. f., ex Ind. Kew. ii. 826. Asclepias 
Gerrardii, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 453. 
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