Schizoglossum. | LXXXY. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 369 
broad, dorsally flattened, oblong, entire or obtusely toothed at the sub- 
truncate apex, furnished on the inner face with 2 wing-like keels or 
flaps infolded so that their edges meet, reaching to 3 of the wey up or 
beyond, broadest at the apex, which ends in a short obtuse tooth. 
Staminal-column 14-14 lin. long; anther-appendages ovate, acute, 
their tips inflexed over the edge of the crater-like apex of the style, 
much below which the pollen-carriers are seated.—K. Schum. in Engl. 
& Prantl, PAanzenfam. iv. ii. 233.  <Asclepias petherickiana, Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1895, 336. 
Nile Land. White Nile: Nyangara (Neangara), Petherick! Uganda: 
Kavirondo; Samia, 4000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7130! Buddu; ona dry plateau, Scott- 
Elliot, 7447 ! 
28. S. simulans, V. #. Br. Stem probably tall, moderately stout, 
somewhat harshly villous, but not densely so. Leaves spreading ; 
petiole (0-3 lin. long, stout, hairy; blade 24—4 in. long, 7-16 lin. broad, 
oblong, slightly tapering upwards, acute, base cordate or emarginate, 
both sides clothed with short spreading hairs, more densely so below, 
slightly harsh to the touch. Umbels 2-7, lateral and terminal, pedun- 
culate, 5-12-flowered; peduncles 4-1 in. long, moderately stout, 
villous ; bracts 5-8 lin. long, 3-1} lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceo 
late, acute, villous, ciliate, persistent ; pedicels 5—6 lin. long, moderately 
stout, villous. Sepals 5-54 lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad, linear-oblong or 
lanceolate, acute, villous on the back and at the apex within. Corolla 
5-lobed almost to the base; lobes campanulately spreading, 5-5} lin. 
long, 21-23 lin. broad, oblong, subacute and minutely emarginate at 
the apex, thinly villous on the back, glabrous within, apparently white. 
Coronal-lobes arising at the base of the staminal-column and equalling 
or very slightly exceeding it, erect, 24-2? lin. long, 2-214 lin. broad at 
the base, 14-13 lin. broad at the apex, fleshy, pandurate ; basal part 
with broadly rounded subauriculate sides; apical part cuneately sub- 
quadrate or transversely widened, subtruncate or obscurely trilobulate ; 
inner face with a stout fleshy erect tooth, arising at the middle and not 
nearly reaching to the apex, decurrent in two keels to its base. 
Staminal-column 24-23 lin. long ; anther-appendages ovate, acute, 
inflexed over the rim of the crater-like apex of the style ; anther-wings 
barely 1 lin. long, flattish or the margins slightly incurved, not at all 
projecting, narrowly oblong ; pollen-carriers erect, seated below the 
level of the rim of the style. Follicles solitary, erect, but at right 
angles to the pedicels, 3-33 in. long, about 1 in. in diam., lanceolate, 
obtuse, 4-winged, rather coriaceous, glabrous. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; on the Nyika Plateau, 
6000-7000 ft., Whyte, 108! 129! 
: This plant, S. erimium, N. E. Br., S. distinctum, N. E. Br,, are all very similar 
in general appearance, and may easily be confused. They have the general appear- 
ance of an Asclepias, and the dorsally flattened coronal-lobes of a Schizoglossum, 
whilst in having the pollen-carriers placed below the level of the apex of the style 
they agree with the genus Margaretta, under which gents I originally placed S. 
distinctum. 
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