812 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Yysmalobiwm. 
glaorous. Corolla 14-1} in. in diam., campanulate, 5-lobed almost to 
the base, glabrous, dark purple-brown, speckled and streaked with white 
or occasionally entirely dark purple-brown within; lobes 10-13 lin, long, 
6-7 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse. Coronal-lobes arising 2—2} lin. above 
the base of the staminal-column and reaching to its top or slightly 
exceeding it, 1#-2 lin. long, erect, white, very stout, fleshy, oblong or 
suborbicular, about as thick as broad, very convex on the back, flat 
with 2 narrow keels on the inner face, obtusely rounded at the apex, 
which is usually (always?) horizontally produced over the tips of the 
anthers into a short stout beak, on each side of which the margin is 
produced into a short deltoid tooth, also directed towards the anthers. 
Staminal-column 37-43 lin. long; anther-appendages broadly ovate, 
obtuse or subacute, inflexed over the apex of the style—K. Schum. in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 425. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Urungu; Fwambo, Carson, 62 ! 
Nyasaland; Manganja Hills, near Sochi, 3000 ft., Kirk ! Blantyre, Buchanan, 43 ! 
Namasi, Cameron, 12! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 603! Northern 
Rhodesia, Berrington ! 
This species, together with X. spathulatum N.E. Br., X. grande, N. E. Br., and 
X, Cecile, N. E. Br., form a little group very similar in appearance, having larger 
flowers than any other members of the genus. ‘The keels and teeth on the inner face 
of the coronal-lobes in this species and in X. spathulatum, establish their connection 
with Asclepias, but on account of the very thick fleshy nature of the coronal-lobes 
and the close affinity of these species with X. Ceci/e (which has no teeth or keels on 
the lobes), they seem to me better placed under Xysmalobium. 
The plant enumerated as Schizoglossum spathulatum by K. Schumann in Evgler, 
Jahrbicher, xxviii. 454, which was collected by Goetze (718) in Uhehe, German East 
Africa, probably belongs here, rather than to X. spathulatum, N. E. Br., although 
Schumann regards these two as one species, See note under the latter. 
_18. X. spathulatum, V. #. Br. Stem stout, 14-18 in. high, 
simple, solitary, with one pubescent line alternating at the nodes. 
Leaves spreading; petiole 2-5 lin. long; blade 14-3} in. long, 3-2 in. 
broad, cuneate-oblong or oblong, truncate retuse or very broadly 
rounded at the apex, minutely apiculate, cuneate-acute at the base, both 
sides glabrous; veins horizontally spreading. Umbels solitary and ter- 
minal, or several lateral and terminal, the upper nearly or quite sessile, 
the lower more or less pedunculate, 3—4-flowered ; peduncles up to 1 in. 
long, pubescent ; bracts 14-4 lin. long, subulate, glabrous ; pedicels 
8-1 in. long, pubescent along one side. Sepals 3-44 lin. long, 2-3 lin. 
broad, ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, acute, glabrous. Corolla cam- 
panulate ; lobes 6-11 lin. long, 4-6 lin. broad; oblong, obtuse, gla- 
brous, whitish, densely spotted or speckled with purple. Coronal-lobes 
arising 24-3 lin. above the base of the staminal-column and reaching 
only to about the middle of the anthers, 1-1} lin. long and the same } 
breadth, about 1 lin. thick, fleshy, orbicular, very convex on the back, 
just below the rounded apex is a short erect horn on the face, with a 
small tooth produced from the margin on each side of it at or below o 
middle. Anther-appendages elliptic-ovate, obtuse or subacute, inflexe 
over the apex of the style.—Schizoglossum spathulatum, K. Schum.” 
