738 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). | Pachycarpus. 
EastrrN Rectan: Eastern border of the Transvaal at Ingoma (Ngome), 
Gerrard, 1299 ! 
In Harvey’s figure of this species the corolla-lobes are represented much more 
spreading and the tube less globose than they should be. 
25. P. rostratus (N. E. Br.) ; habit, stem, leaves, pubescence, 
8-12-flowered umbels, peduncles, pedicels and sepals all exactly as 
in P. Gerrardi; corolla apparently globose-campanulate, lobed to 
less than half-way down, about 8 lin. in diam., pubescent and 
purplish-brown outside, “ greenish-white to light brown ” (Haygarth) ; 
tube 4 lin. long ; lobes 24-2? lin. long, 34 lin. broad, deltoid-ovate, 
obtuse ; corona-lobes arising at the base of the staminal column, 
2} lin. long, 1} lin. broad, very spreading, flat, obovate-oblong, 
obtusely pointed, with 2 erect broadly deltoid wing-like keels }-1 
lin. high at the base, dark purple-brown ; staminal column 1} lin. 
long to the tips of the anther-appendages, which are 3 lin. long, 
obiong-linear, subobtuse, erect and pressed against the sides of the 
columnar apical part of the style, which is produced about 1 lin. 
beyond them into a sort of beak divided at the apex into 5 erect 
contiguous lobes 4—} lin. long; young carpels covered with brown 
hairs. 
Eastern Recion: Zululand ; Nkandhla, Haygarth in Herb, Wood, 7543 ! 
The beaked style-apex at once distinguishes this from P. Gerrardi, and the 
flowers seem to be less globose and are larger. 
26. P. stelliceps (N. E. Br.); stem solitary, }-1 ft. high, simple 
rather slender, pubescent; leaves erect or ascending, shortly 
petiolate, 2-34 in. long, 14-24 lin. broad, linear, acute, with 
revolute margins, somewhat scabrous-pubescent above and on the 
midrib beneath; umbels 1-2, terminal and lateral, pedunculate, 
2-21 in. in diam., 5—6-flowered ; pedicels 5-7 lin. long, pubescent ; 
sepals 2}-4 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; 
corolla about 2 in. in diam., subglobose or globose-campanulate, 
lobed to about half-way down or less, glabrous and apparently 
whitish inside, pubescent, and dull violaccous-brown on the tube 
outside ; tube 5-6 lin. long; lobes recurved, 2}-3 lin. long, 4-5 lin. 
broad, very broadly ovate, obtuse ; corona-lobes complicate, with 
the basal part 14 lin. long, ? lin. broad, linear, horizontally radiating 
from the base of the staminal column, slightly upcurved and bifid 
at the apex, from which the thin sides slope upwards (1 lin. high) 
to the level of the base of the anther-appendages and are adnate to 
the column up to the base of the anthers, above which they form 
small free deltoid obtuse erect lobules, with a narrow double wing 
on the outer side, very minutely papillate-puberulous, on their 
inner surface, but there is no horn or other process within ; 
staminal column 24 lin. long, not dilated at the base; anther- 
appendages elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, erect, shorter than 
the style-apex and adpressed to it between its lobes ; anther-wings 
