Aselepias. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 393. 
(solitary 2?) ascending, ventricose, acuminate, covered with green 
bristles. Seeds with a tuft of long white hairs.—(omphocarpus crinitus, 
Bertoloni in Mem. Accad. Scienze Istit. Bologna, 1851, iii. 253, t. 20, 
fig. 1; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Inhambane, Fornasini (ex 
Bertoloni), 
I have not seen this species, but it appears to be allied to A. Phillipsia, N. KE. 
Br. Although the town of Inhambane is just south of the Tropic of Capricorn, the 
plant in all probability will be found to occur within the limits of the Tropical 
Flora. 
20. SCHIZOGLOSSUM, E. Meyer; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. 
dod ap Cea 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, rotate, or the 
lobes campanulately spreading, reflexed, or rarely connate at their tips, 
overlapping to the left in bud. Corona of 5 lobes arising from the 
staminal-column opposite the anthers, dorsally flattened, never compli- 
cate, but occasionally with slightly infolded margins, often produced at. 
the apex into a subulate or horn-like point, and furnished on the inner 
face with 2 keels and usually with one or two teeth, horns or tongue- 
shaped processes, or rarely without keel, tooth or horn on the face. 
Staminal-column arising from the base of the corolla. Anthers erect, 
terminated by membranous appendages, which are inflexed over the 
apex of the style or erect. Follicles smooth or echinate. Seeds crowned 
with a tuft of hairs——Perennial herbs with milky juice. Rootstock 
usually tuberous. Stem solitary or two or more from a tuber, simple, 
or variously branched. Leaves opposite or whorled, often linear. 
Flowers in sessile or pedunculate umbels, most of which are lateral 
between the bases of the leaves, and one or two terminal. 
Species numerous, found also in Madagascar and in South Africa, It is not 
possible to draw any rigid line between the genera Schizoglossum and Xysmalobium 
in the case of those species of Schizoglossum that are without the axillary tooth, 
horn, keels or process on the inner face of the coronal-lobes; the only difference 
appears to be that the coronal-lobes are more flattened and much less fleshy than they 
are in Xysmalobium, but in most cases the 2 keels are present on the inner face of 
the coronal-lobes, which, taken together with the usually much thinner texture of the 
lobes, at once distinguishes this genus from Xysmalobium. 
*Leaves (except sometimes in 14. S. viridulum) less than 
; in, broad, filiform, linear or linear-lanceolate. 
Corolla-lobes connate at the apex. : : . 1. S. connatum. 
Corolla-lobes free. 
Coronal-lobes much shorter than the  staminal- 
column : : : : : : . 20. S. Welwitschii. 
Coronal-lobes as long as or longer than the staminal- 
column 
Corolla-lobes with Jong woolly hairs on their 
margins and apical part, and a short pubes- 
cence on their middle part within. 
Pedicels 4-6 lin. long . : ; . . 2. S. abyssinicum. 
Pedicels 13-1? lin. long. 
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