Pectinaria. | ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). 869 
staminal column, minute, not } lin. long, spreading, broadly ovate 
or deltoid, subacute, glabrous, dark purple-brown ; inner corona- 
lobes 13-1} lin. long, much exceeding and erectly connivent (or 
sometimes connate at the tips) high above the staminal column, 
rather thick and fleshy, linear or subulate, obtuse or acute, with a 
short deltoid-subulate tooth or small thickened crest on the back 
below the middle, dark purple-brown ; staminal column # lin. long ; 
anthers subquadrate, obtuse, without appendages, incumbent on the 
outer part of the truncate style-apex. 
Coast REGION : Oudtshoorn Div. ; near Oudtshoorn, Pillans, 694! 
CenTraL Recon: Laingsburg Diy. ; on a hill north-west of Laingsburg at 
Zout Kloof, growing around and under stones, very scarce, Pillans, 115! along 
the road between Witte Poort and Laingsburg, ex Pillans. 
Although there is a young bud in the axil of every tooth on the stems, yet 
according to Mr. Pillans only those on the underside develop into shoots. 
2. P. Pillansii (N. E. Br.); stems up to 6 in. or more long, 
procumbent or partly subterranean, acutely 4-angled, }—? in. square, 
with flat or slightly concave sides and acute deltoid-conical teeth 
13-2 lin. long, glabrous, dull green, more or less mottled or suffused 
with purple where exposed to the sun, with a slight glaucous bloom 
on the young parts, the teeth being at first of a paler green than 
the rest, becoming hardened and pale brown, having a bud in every 
axil ; flowers in clusters of three or more at the middle of the sides, 
often (always?) developed underground ; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, 
glabrous ; sepals about 1 lin. long, ovate, acuminate, glabrous ; 
corolla 34 lin. in diam., broadly depressed pear-shaped, light purple, 
with a frosted appearance all over the inside, from being thinly 
covered with watery or air-containing papille, almost smooth and 
glabrous outside; tube about 14 lin. long, cup-shaped ; lobes 
unusually thick and rigidly fleshy, 2-2} lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad 
at the base, like an equilateral triangle in outline, acute, inflexed 
and connate (or occasionally, by accident? free) at the tips, forming 
a short broad dome-like top to the flower, their margins not recurved 
but separated so as to form very narrow fissures between them ; 
outer corona of 5 minute lobes about } lin. long, broadly ovate, 
obtuse, spreading, apparently whitish ; inner corona-lobes 14 lin. 
long, laterally much flattened, subfaleate, with a large rounded 
acute-edged hump on the back above the middle and there } lin. 
broad from front to back, erect, with the tips connivent high above 
the style-apex, dark purple. 
Centrat Recion: Somerset Div. ; oe Mae eet near ss East, 
growing flat on the ground under the dry leaves of an aloe, very rare, only one 
plant found, Pilians, 180! 
Mr. Pillans informs me that all the mature flowers he has seen have been 
developed underground, and that so far as he has observed, the young flower- 
buds which are formed above ground have not developed. : 
