356 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEX (BROWN). [Schizoglossum. 
Apex of the style dilated, pentagonal, 
crater-like channelled at each angle. 33. S. scyphostigma. 
Coronal-lobes without keels or other appen- 
dages on the inner face. 
Coronal-lobes spathulate, acute . : . 25. S. dolichoglossum. 
Coronal-lobes cuneate-oblong, irregularly 
3-4-toothed or subtruncate at the 
apex. : : : : ¢ . 24, S. spurium. 
1. S. connatum, V. Z. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 69. Stem 
solitary (?) simple, 14-2 ft. high, slender, softly pubescent. Leaves 
erect, subsessile, 14-24 in. long, $—1 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revo- 
lute margins, pubescent. Umbels 6-8, lateral at the nodes along the upper 
part of the stem, sessile, 6—8-flowered ; pedicels 14-24 lin. long, slender 
pubescent. Sepals 1-1} lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. 
Corolla 5-lobed almost to the base ; lobes 3 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad at 
the base, linear-lanceolate-attenuate, incurved-erect, connate at their 
tips, with revolute-replicate margins, pubescent outside, minutely 
puberulous within, apparently greenish-yellow. Coronal-lobes } lin, 
long and about the same in breadth, equalling the staminal-column in 
length, subquadrate, truncate and somewhat indistinctly subdenticulate 
at the top, with the apical angles produced on each side into a short 
spreading tooth, also having two keels and a minute tooth below the 
apex on the inner face, a transverse fleshy ridge at their base on the 
back, glabrous. Staminal-column } lin. long; anther-appendages 
nearly circular, inflexed over the truncate and minutely papillose apex 
of the style—kK. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 425, and in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxviii. 455. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uhehe; Uchungwe Mountain, at the 
Ruaha River near Succa, 5500 ft., Goetze, 644. British Central Africa : Urungu; 
Fwambo, Carson, 17! 
2. S. abyssinicum, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 233. Stem 4-5 ft. high, rather slender, sparingly branched, 
pubescent. Leaves 14~3 lin. long, $—? lin. broad, linear-filiform, acute, 
erect, very sparsely and minutely pubescent, margins strongly revolute. 
Umbels numerous, lateral, sessile, 15—20-flowered ; bracts 14-2 lin. long, 
subulate, pubescent; pedicels 4—6 lin. long, slender, pubescent. Sepals 
¢ lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. Corolla 3 lin. diam. ; 
lobes 1-1} lin. long, campanulately spreading, narrowly oblong, acute, 
replicate, subtomentose on both sides, with acute hairs and with a tult 
of long white hairs at the apex. Coronal-lobes arising } lin. above the 
base of the staminal-column, 3 lin. long, subquadrate, abruptly contracted 
into an acuminate point curved over the tips of the anthers with two 
keels on the face decurrent from the point, each having a minute auricle 
or pocket on the outer side.—Lagarinthus abyssinicus, Hochst. ex Benth. 
in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 753. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Sana: mountains near Dochli, Schimper, 1633! . 
Readily distinguished from 8, angustissimum, K. Schum., and S. Whytei by = 
longer pedicels, and by the body of the coronal-lobe being produced into an acute 
