Compilation
Pachycarpus campanulatus

“root tuberous” (Sanderson); stem 2/3–2 ft. high, simple, thinly and somewhat harshly pubescent or scaberulous; leaves suberect, 3–6 in. long, 1 1/3–4 1/2 lin. broad, linear, acute, tapering or rounded into the very short petiole at the base, with revolute margins, harshly pubescent or more or less scabrous above and on the margins and midrib beneath; umbel solitary, terminal, nodding, 3–5-flowered; peduncle 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, pubescent or subscabrous-pubescent, as are also the pedicels, bracts and calyx; pedicels 3/4–1 1/2 in. long; bracts 6–8 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, deciduous; sepals 5–9 lin. long, 2–3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute; corolla globose, not lobed beyond the middle, 1 1/4–2 in. in diam., somewhat coarsely pubescent and usually purplish outside in dried flowers, but according to a drawing at Kew dull green, glabrous and apparently whitish or greenish-white inside, “corolla yellow” and “yellow-green” (Wood); united part 3/4–1 in. long; lobes 7–13 lin. long and as much in breadth, roundish-ovate, subacute, incurved, with overlapping margins, perhaps sometimes recurved or spreading at the tips; corona-lobes arising 1–1 1/2 lin. up the staminal column, horizontally spreading, 3 1/2–7 1/2 lin. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with a pair of erect obliquely deltoid wing-like keels at their base 1 1/2–2 lin. high, reaching to the base of the anther-appendages, dark purple-brown, with the keels paler; staminal column 3–5 lin. high; anther-appendages 1 1/2–2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, with reflexed sides, erect, with their tips exceeding and inflexed over the margin of the crater-like 5-crenate style-apex. null