Xysmalobiwm. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 303 
minutely pubescent with curved hairs on the back. Corolla lobed 
nearly to the base, campanulate, about 12 lin. in diam. ; lobes 14 lin. 
long, # lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, erect and concave within in 
the basal half, recurved and slightly convex at the apical part, glabrous 
on both surfaces, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes minute, arising close to the 
base of the staminal-column and not nearly reaching toits middle, about 
f lin. long, ascending, oblong, obtuse, fleshy ; alternating with them are 
) very minute teeth. Staminal-column lin. long; anther-appendages 
broad, toothed, ascending, pressed against the sides of the broadly and 
shortly conical apical part of the style, which slightly exceeds them 
anther-wings broadly triangular, very projecting at the middle. 
-‘Mozamb. Dist. Rhodesia: Buluwayo, Rand, 198 
This plant bears a great resemblance to Schizoglossum angolense, Schlechter & 
Rendle, and without careful examination might easily be mistaken for it; in floral 
structure however, it is entirely different, as the corolla-lobes of S. angolense are 
nearly flat and neither concave at the base nor recurved at the apex, the coronal- 
lobes much larger, 2-keeled on the inner face, without alternating teeth at their 
base, and the anther-wings are not in the least projecting. 
4, X. reticulatum, J. “. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 251. Stems 
several from a tuberous root, 6—22 in. high, erect, herbaceous, with 2 
lines of short curved hairs. Leaves ascending ; petiole 4-1 lin. long ; 
blade 3-3 in. long, 14-7 lin. broad, oblong, linear-oblong, linear-lanceo- 
late or linear, obtuse or subacute, apiculate at the apex, subcordate, 
subtruncate or rounded at the base, glabrous, conspicuously reticulate 
With prominent ascending veins beneath. Umbels sessile, lateral, 4—6- 
lowered ; bracts about 1-1} lin. long, subulate or linear-subulate ; 
Pedicels 3-7 lin. long, puberulous along the inner side. Sepals 1}-2} 
lin. long, 4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or pubescent on 
the back, reflexed. Corolla 5-lobed almost to the base, strongly reflexed, 
quite glabrous, green ; lobes 24-24 lin. long, 1}—1# lin. broad, ovate, 
‘cute or subobtuse. Coronal-lobes arising at the base of the staminal- 
column and much shorter than it, 1-11 lin. long, fleshy, rather variable 
‘n form, sometimes ascending, obovate or diamond-shaped, obtuse or 
Subacute, with a median keel down the inner face, which rises into an 
acute tooth at about the middle, flattened on the back, sometimes more 
Spreading, with the terminal part very thick and fleshy, obovoid (or sub- 
globose?) produced into an acute or obtuse cone or tooth on the upper 
side somewhat resembling a bird’s head. Staminal-column 14-13 lin. 
ong, conical, truncate ; anther-appendages broadly ovate, acute or sub- 
acute, incumbent on the truncate apex of the style ; anther-wings 1 lin. 
Ong, 4 lin. broad at the base, where they are very projecting.— 1. 
umannianum, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1901, 259. Schizoglossum 
runcatulum, K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 322. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Kavironda; between N andi and Mumia, 4400-6000 ft. 
M haar Pee Kanjana Berg, Stuhlmann, 2096! British East Africa 
Mozamb, Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu; Fwambo, Carson, 56! 
Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Buchanan! Zomba and vicinity, 2500-3500 ft., 
