358 LXXXY. ASCLEPIADEX (BROWN). [ Schizoglossum 
twice as long as it, 1 lin. long, including the horn, erect, somewhat 
elliptic-subquadrate, very obtuse anid minutely crenulate at the apex, 
with 2 keels and a subapical horn on the inner face; horn subulate, 
sometimes divided into 2 or 3, incurved over the staminal-column at 
the base, then ascending. Staminal-column ? lin. long, not dilated at 
the base of the anthers; anther-appendages very broadly ovate or 
suborbicular, obtuse, inflexed over the truncate apex of the style. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland: Kondowe to Karonga, 
2000-6000 ft., Whyte, 353! Masuku Plateau, Whyte ! 
Very similar to S. angustissimum, K. Schum., but appears to be of a more 
branching habit and has larger flowers, which are of a darker colour when dried, and 
essentially differ from those of S. angustissimum in the character of the hairs on 
the middle of the inner face of the corolla-iobes, these forming a visible pubescence 
of fine acute hairs in S. Whytei, whilst in S. angustissimum they are scarcely 
visible to the eye and when highly magnified are almost papilla-like and very 
obtuse. 
5. S. masaicum, JV. /. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 252. Stems 
13-24 ft. high, slender, scarcely 1 lin. thick at the base, usually 
sparingly branched, pubescent. Leaves 3-24 in. long, }—} lin. broad, 
erect, linear-filiform, acute, with very revolute margins, very thinly and 
minutely pubescent or nearly or quite glabrous. Umbels several, 
lateral at the nodes, sessile, several-flowered; bracts 3-14 lin. long, 
subulate, pubescent ; pedicels 14-2 lin. long, slender, pubescent. Sepals 
4 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, pubescent on the 
back. Corolla rotate, 2-2} lin. in diam.; lobes 1-1} lin. long, } lin. 
broad, oblong, subacute, more or less reflexed along the margins, pubes- 
cent on the back, thinly and minutely downy within, pale brown in the 
dried state, but probably greenish when fresh. Coronal-lobes arising 
at the base of the staminal-column, erect, 4-3 lin. long, subquadrate, 
flat, subtruncate, broadly rounded, and slightly recurved or dorsally 
projecting at the apex, with two divergent keels and a short horn 
(sometimes bifid) on the inner face, the horn arising just below the 
apex, ascending and incurved over the tips of the anthers. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Taita district; Maungu, 2000 ft. 
Johnston ! 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; below Marang™s 
3200 ft., Volkens, 2155! 
The Kilimanjaro plant was distributed from Berlin as Chlorophytum viridescens, 
Engl. The keels on the coronal-lobes are rather more divergent than in the type 
but I can find no other structural difference. The flowers have dried green, but this 
is probably due to the use of the alcohol method. 
6.8. strictissimum, §. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 254, Stem erect, 
3-3} ft. high, simple or with one branch, 14-13 lin. thick at the base, 
softly downy. Leaves opposite, numerous, erect, standing close to the 
stem, sessile or subsessile, linear, with revolute margins, abruptly acute, 
minutely pubescent, varying from 24-23 in. long on the lower part to 
7-1} in. long on the upper part of the stem, 4-1} lin. broad. Umbels 
sessile at the nodes, few-flowered ; pedicels about } lin. long, pubes- 
