360 LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Schizoglossum. 
3-1} lin. long, $ lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, puberu- 
lous. Corolla rotate, 3 lin. in diam., glabrous outside, pubescent inside, 
apparently purple-brown ; lobes 14-14 lin. long, 2? lin. broad, oblong- 
ovate, acute. Coronal-lobes arising from the base of the staminal- 
column and equalling it in length, } lin. long, excluding the teeth, and 
about the same in breadth, subquadrate, 2-keeled down the face, trun- 
cate and excavated at the apex, with two opposite divergent subulate 
teeth 4-4 lin. long, one inflexed over the anther-tips, the other hori- 
zontally directed outwards, or in some specimens the dorsal tooth 
wanting and the inner tooth more or less bifid, so that the lobe is 
then subquadrate with an acute or bifid inflexed apical tooth and a sort 
of pocket on the back. Staminal-column } lin. long ; anther-appendages 
reniform or suborbicular, very obtuse, incumbent on the truncate apex 
of the style. Follicles about 24 in. long, } in. thick, erect, fusiform, 
acute, puberulous, solitary in the only example seen. Seeds 24 lin. long, 
1} lin. broad, ovate, flattened, somewhat concave on one side, margined, 
rugose with radiating ridges, which are much reduced on the disk, dull 
brown, crowned with a tuft of long white hairs. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mount Mlanje, Scott- 
itlliot, 8671 | Mount Zomba and vicinity, 2500-3800 ft., Whyte ! 
9. S. filipes, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 16. Stem 
10-14 in, high, simple or slightly branched at the base, puberulous. 
Leaves erect, linear or linear-filiform, acute, revolute along the margins, 
thinly pilose. Umbels lateral, many-flowered ; pedicels filiform, unequal 
in length, longer than the flowers, shortly pilose. Sepals 14 lin. long; 
lanceolate, acute, pilose. Corolla subrotate, greenish; lobes 34 lin. 
long, narrowly ovate-oblong, obtuse, with revolute margins, outside 
thinly pilose, puberulous within. Coronal-lobes longer than the 
staminal-column, lanceolate, with the margins unequally toothed on 
each side, furnished on the inner face with an appendage that is dilated 
and lacerate-toothed at the apex. 
Mozamb. Dist. Transvaal: Klipdam, 4600 ft., Feb., Schlechter, 4491! 
I have included this plant, as the locality is so near to the Tropic of Capricorn 
that it will almost certainly be found to occur within the tropic. 
10.S. gwelense, V. Z. Br. Stem erect, 9-12 in. high, slender, simple, 
puberulous, with internodes about } in. long. Leaves opposite, erect oF 
ascending, subsessile, 11-24 in. long, 3-1} lin. broad, linear, acute, 
glabrous above, minutely scaberulous along the revolute margins, 
puberulous on the midrib beneath. Umbels several, sessile at the nodes, 
2—5-flowered ; bracts minute, subulate ; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, puberu- 
lous. Sepals 1 lin. long, % lin. broad, oblong, acute, spreading, puberu- 
lous on the back. Corolla 34-4 lin. in diam., subrotate, green; lobes 
17 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong, subacute, spreading, thinly puberulous 
on the back, more densely puberulous within. Coronal-lobes arising at 
the base of the staminal-column and very much longer than it, 24-7; 
lin. long, erect, broadly diamond-shaped, flat and ? lin. broad at ye 
base, tapering into a long filiform point, incurved at the apex; faintly 
