Pectinaria,| ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 871 
Kew. ed. 1, i. 310, and ed. 2, ii. 90; Masson, Stap. 20, t. 30; Hayne, 
Term, Bot. ed. 1799, t. 16, fig. 6; Thunb. Trav. ed, 3 (English ed.) 
ii. 171; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1287; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 279; Poir. Encyel. 
vii, 384; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 26; R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 24 ; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 26; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841; Loud. Encyel. 
Pl. 200, fig. 3299; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887 ; Decne in DC. Prodr. 
viii. 663. 
Var. 8, namaquensis (N. E. Br.); branches 4-} in. thick, with the tubercles 
$-1 lin. long, dull purple-brown ; flowers drooping (Pillans); pedicels 14-2 lin. 
long, stout, glabrous; sepals }#~1 lin. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
minutely papillate; corolla bud-like, about 2 lin. long, 24-8 lin. in diam., 
shortly and broadly conical, acute, subtruncate at the base, papillate and greenish 
outside, covered with small (watery ?) tubercles on the (whitish ?) inner surface ; 
tube about 3 lin. deep, broad and shallow ; lobes 2 lin. long, 1}-13 lin. broad at 
the base, elongated deltoid ; outer corona cupular, scarcely } lin. high, usually 
more or less irregularly divided into numerous (30 or more) erect slender teeth, 
glabrous, yellowish ; inner corona-lobes about 4 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, closely 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not exceeding them, dorsally 
connected to the outer corona at the base, yellowish. 
CrentTRAL ReaGiIon : Calvinia Div. ; near the edge of the Roggeveld Mountains, 
Thunberg, Masson, 
WEsTERN Reoron: Var. 8: Little Namaqualand ; without precise locality 
Templemun in Herb. Pillans, 22! 
According to Thunberg and Masson this plant is eaten by the Hottentots and 
pickled like cucumbers by the colonists, There is no specimen of it in Thunberg’s 
Herbarium, nor in Masson’s collection at the British Museum. Therefore until 
the Roggeveld plant should be rediscovered and prove distinct, I place the 
Namaqualand plant as a variety of it, since the colour of its corolla and corona 
appear to be its chief distinction. 
5. P. asperiflora (N. E. Br.) ; stems tufted, procumbent or erect, 
3-3 in. long, }-} in. thick, globose to cylindric, with 6-8 angles 
formed of closely placed stout conical minutely apiculate tubercles 
3-1 lin. long, glabrous, dark dull purple on the young parts ; 
flowers solitary from the grooves between the angles on the young 
growth ; pedicels 14-4 lin. long, usually decurved or recurved at the 
apex, slender, glabrous, very slightly and obscurely roughened, in 
fruit ascending, }—2 in. long, 1}—2 lin. thick, purple-brown ; sepals 
3-1 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, obscurely papillate ; 
corolla drooping, pentagonally subglobose, or with a campanulate 
tube and a very shortly conical top, 2-2} lin. in diam., abruptly 
and shortly pointed in bud and when closed after opening, obtuse 
when open, with the margins of the lobes slightly recurving, leaving 
narrow lanceolate fissures between them, outside purple-brown, 
minutely papillate ; inside white dotted with purple, densely covered 
with large papille, which, when magnified, are seen to be covered 
with spike-like processes; tube 14 lin. long, cup-shaped ; lobes 
arching over the tube, connate at the tips, 14-2 lin. long, 1} lin. 
broad, deltoid-ovate, acuminate; outer corona about } lin. long, 
eupular, usually with 5 pairs of erect subulate teeth } lin. long, 
alternating with 5 broad transverse shorter lobules irregularly 
