Pachycarpus. | ASCLEPIADF& (Brown), 739 
small, about 3 lin. long, extending down to about the middle of the 
column ; style-apex convex, with a small crater-like pit at the top, 
and 5 stellately radiating compressed lobes 14-1} lin. long, some 
what falcately oblong in side view, with a tubercle or gibbosity 
on each side at the base, very obtuse and upcurved at the tips, 
which spread out about as far as the corona-lobes, apparently 
whitish. 
Eastern Recion : Swaziland ; on the High Veld, near Embabaan (Mbabane), 
5500 ft., Bolus, 12117 ! 
Very similar to P. Gerrardi and P. linearis, but at once distinguished by its 
very remarkable star-shaped style-apex and different corona-lobes. 
Imperfectly known species. 
27. P. asperifolius (Meisn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 
544, by error 444); stem simple, glabrous ; leaves opposite, lanceo- 
late-oblong, acute, tapering into a short petiole, flat, hispidulous- 
scabrous on both sides, with a thick midrib beneath ; pedicels 5-8 
in an umbel-like cluster, axillary, 6-8 lin. long, half as long as the 
leaves and together with the calyx puberulous ; corolla spreading, 
as large as in P. ligulatus and P. concolor, with oblong acute 
segments, pale greenish, concolorous ; corona-lobes erect, terminated 
by an ovate acute pointless membranous erect blade, inflexed at 
the apex, with a tooth on each side at the base. Krauss in Flora, 
1844, 826. Gomphocarpus asperifolius, Walp. Rep. Bot. vi. 486 ; 
Ind. Kew. i. 1050. 
Eastern Reaion ; Natal ; margins of woods around Durban Bay, Arauss. 
Described as resembling P. appendiculatus, but differing by the leaves tapering 
below, the spreading corolla and form of the corona-lobes. I have not seen this, 
but think it may have been founded upon a specimen of P. @ iculatus in 
which the flowers were not fully expanded. 
28. Gomphocarpus macroglossus (Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. 
Mose, 1848, i. 259); stem robust, erect, simple, hispid; leaves 
oblong, somewhat acute, tapering into a short petiole, scabrous on 
both sides, with revolute margins ; peduncles scarcely any ; pedicels 
mostly 3 together, the lower defiexed ; corolla-lobes at length 
spreading, without spots; corona-lobes with a long linear flattish 
base, keeled at the middle, passing into an ovate obtuse blade at 
the apex, twice as high as the staminal column. 
Coast Recion: Bathurst Div.; hilis near the Great Fish River, between 
Kaffirs Drift and Governors Kop, 500-2000 ft., Heklon, 34 (ex Turczaninow). 
Stated to be allied to P. concolor, with flowers of the same size, but differing 
from that by its elongated pedicels and the corona-lobes narrower at the base, not 
dilated. From the description and locality this would appear to be referable to 
either P. reflectens or P. appendiculatus, and is possibly a specimen with the 
flowers not fully expanded. Ae 
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