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Has.—Zululand, January, Gerr. & M‘Ken., 1285. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—Stem erect, somewhat 4-angled, bifariously rough with 
hard points. Leaves opposite or sometimes alternate, on short petioles, 
elliptical, submucronulate, thick and rigid, very closely penninerved, 
with a thick midrib prominent beneath, rough with hard, sharp points 
on the margin, midrib and nerves, and thinly sprinkled over both sur- 
faces with similar points. Umbel in our specimen sessile, several- 
flowered ; bracts few, subulate. Pedicels 14 inches long, scabrous. Calyx 
lobes ovate, subacute, externally pubescent. Corolla unspotted, rotate, 
the lobes ovate, acute, with a velvety spot at base. Corona-folioles ho- 
rizontally depressed, trapezoid, with two very prominent, deltoid, 
upright, intramarginal angles, the apex produced into a long, incurved, 
channelled ligule. 
Fig. 1, flowering branch; the natural size. Fig. 2, inside and outside views of a 
calyx-lobe; 3, lobe of the corolla; 4, corona and the enclosed andraecium ; 5, one of the 
folioles of the corona ; all magnified. 
198. GOMPHOCARPUS GERRARDI, Harv. (Aseclepiadee. ) 
G. Gerrardi; caule crecto simplici subbifariam piloso, foliis brevis- 
sime petiolatis lineari-lanceolatis utrinque acutis marginibus revolutis 
supra adpressé aspero-hispidis subtus glabris costa pilosa, umbellis 
axillaribus terminalibusque multifloris, corolla campanulata extus pu- 
bescente lobis ovatis venosis, coronse-stamines foliolis depressis oblongis 
acutis angulis intramarginalibus arrectis cultriformibus acutis. 
Has.—Ingoma, Natal, W. T. Gerrard, 1299. (Herb. T. C. D.} 
Descr.—Stem 12-15 in. high, subquadrangular, pilose alternately 
from node to node on two sides. Leaves opposite, about 1-14 inch apart, 
linear-lanceolate, acute, 4-5 inches long, 2-3 lines wide, with revolute 
margins, closely and rigidly pubescent above and on the nerve beneath. 
Peduncles shorter than the leaves, many-flowered. Calyz-lobes lan- 
ceolate, pubescent. Corolla 2 inch across, shortly campanulate, open, 
5-lobed to the middle, pubescent outside, thin and veiny, white; the lobes 
ovate. Corona-folioles horizontal, oblong, acute, with two intramar- 
ginal, rectangle-triangular (cultrate), erect angle-plates. 
A very pretty species of Gomphocarpus, allied to @. campanulatus, 
but with much smaller, more open, and greatly more numerous flowers. 
It is one of many new species of Gomphocarpus brought by Mr. Gerrard 
from Zululand, three others of which are figured inthis number. I have 
selected these four for figuring, partly from their beauty, and partly be- 
cause they differ so greatly from each other in the foltoles of their corona, 
showing the wide variations of those organs within the limits of a 
natural genus. 
Fig. 1, upper portion of flowering stem; the natural size; Fig. 2, segment of the 
corolla; 3, corona and andreecium; 4, foliole of the corona; 5, anther, inside view; 6, 
pollen masses ; all magnified. 
