364 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Schizoglosswm. 
13-24 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, more thinly pubescent 
than the rest of the plant, nearly glabrous beneath. Umbels several, 
lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, 7—10-flowered ; peduncles 5-6 lin. 
long; pedicels 1-14 lin. long. Sepals 14 lin. long, $—% lin. broad, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 5-lobed almost to the base ; lobes erect 
with recurving tips, 24 lin. long, scarcely 1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, 
concave in the lower part, somewhat thickened and very minutely 
papillate-puberulous on the inner face of the recurved apical half, 
elsewhere quite glabrous. Coronal-lobes arising from the base of the 
staminal-column, erect, 2} lin. long ; basal third } lin. broad, spathulate- 
subcordate, with the auricles inflexed and forming a minute tooth on 
each side of the inner face, above them the lobe is transversely thickened 
into a ridge; upper % subulate. Staminal-column 14-11 lin. long; 
anther-appendages half as long as the entire column, much exceeding 
the style, } lin. broad, ovate, acuminate, connivent-erect, white. Apex 
of style 3 lin. long, conical, minutely bilobed. 
- — Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; near Kwebe, Lugard, 
This has also been collected in the Orange River Colony. 
The produced, conical apex of the style, surrounded by the Jong anther- 
appendages, are well marked peculiarities of this species. 
18. S. alpestre, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 384. Stems 
several from a thickened rootstock, 2-4 in. long, with two puberulous 
lines. Leaves 1-2 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad, linear, acute, narrowed 
into a very short petiole at the base, glabrous. Umbels 2-4 to a stem, 
3—12-flowered; peduncles 3-11 in. long, puberulous down one side; 
bracts small, linear, or filiform; pedicels 4-5 lin. long, puberulous. 
Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous. Corolla very 
deeply divided, apparently pale greenish or greenish-white with purplish 
tips to the lobes on both sides, quite glabrous; lobes 2-24 lin. long, 
13-1} lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, subacute. Coronal-lobes arising at the 
base of the staminal-column and twice as long as it, 2 lin. long, radiately 
ascending, apparently yellowish in the lower part, purple-brown above, 
very stoutly subulate, gradually tapering from the thick fleshy base 
(which is ? lin. broad and 3 lin. thick) to a very acute point, furnished 
on the inner face } lin. above the base with a fleshy acute tooth, nearly 
horizontally projecting over the top of the staminal-column and style. 
Staminal-column 3 lin. long, not dilated at the base ; anther-appendages 
broadly ovate, acute, inflexed over the truncate apex of the style. 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: on Yawuaege Mountain, in the Kinga 
Range, 8200 ft., Goetze, 1234! 
The very stout, almost conical-subulate coronal lobes, readily distinguish = 
from all the other species, 
19. S, angolense, Schlechter & Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 98. 
Rootstock a small carrot-like tuber. Plant about 3 in. high, branched, 
very leafy ; branches 1-1} in. long, 3-3 lin. thick, with 1 or more 
