Schizoglossum. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 361 
keeled down the back, with 2 slight keels on the face, which are excur- 
rent into an erect subulate process #—1 lin. long, glabrous. Staminal- 
column # lin. long; anthers subrectangular, erect, their appendages 
about 4 lin. long, broadly ovate, subacute, inflexed over the margin of 
the truncate style-apex. 
Mozamh. Dist. Rhodesia: near Gwelo, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 131! 
Salisbury, Rand, 190! 
11. S. shirense, V. #. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 253. Stems 
2-3 ft. high, slender, simple or rarely branched, bifariously pubescent. 
Leaves subsessile or on petioles }~1 lin. long, erect, 14-8 in. long, $-2 
lin, broad, linear, acute, minutely pubescent, becoming glabrate with 
age, revolute along the margins. Umbels lateral, sessile, 3—8-flowered ; 
pedicels 1-2 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
pubescent. Corolla rotate; lobes 24 lin. long, ? lin. broad, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, more or less reflexed, glabrous on the back, pubescent 
all over on the face, purple-brown. Coronal-lobes arising at the base of 
the staminal-column, purple-brown ; basal part subquadrate, 3 lin. long, 
1 lin. broad, with two keels on the face, 3-toothed at the apex ; lateral 
teeth very short ; middle tooth prolonged into an erect recurving horn 
1} lin. long, with a similar horn of about the same length arising at its 
base in front of it. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, Kirk ! 
Brit'sh Central Africa : Nyasaland : Shire Valley, Kirk ! Waller ! 
Root bitter, used medicinally by the natives, as stomachic and aphrodisiac (Kirk). 
_ 12. S. Baumii, Schlechter MSS. Stem about 2 ft. high, solitary, 
simple, slender, $—3 lin. thick at the base, puberulous down one side on 
the flowering part, glabrous below. Leaves in several pairs, ascending 
or erect, 2-13 in. long, }-1} lin. broad, filiform, acute, revolute along the 
margins, glabrous. Umbels 5-8 to a stem, sessile, lateral at the nodes, 
5-8-flowered ; pedicels 14 lin. long, lengthening in fruit, puberulous. 
Sepals 1 lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, thinly adpressed, 
pubescent on the back. Corolla rotate, lobed almost to the base, appa- 
rently whitish or yellowish ; lobes 12-2 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, lanceo- 
late, acute, thin, slightly undulated along the margins, bearded at the 
tps on the inner face with a few stiff erect hairs and with a few ad- 
pressed hairs on the back, otherwise glabrous. Coronal-lobes arising 
at the base of the staminal-column and much overtopping it, 1-1} lin. 
long including the horn, % lin. broad, subquadrate, truncate, with a 
curved subulate simple or irregularly trifid horn arising near the top on 
the inner face, from the base of which are decurrent the usual pair of 
keels, but they are very faint in the dried state. Staminal-column } 
In, long. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Amboella; near Kavanga on the River Kubango, 
3600 ft., Baum, 413! 
_ 13. S. fuscopurpureum, Schlechter & Rendle in Journ. Bot. 
1896, 98. Rootstock of 1 or more fleshy fusiform or small carrot-like 
