370 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Schizoglossum. 
29, S. Grantii, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 109, t. 74. 
Stem 2 ft. or more high, simple, moderately stout, shortly hairy. 
Leaves spreading ; petiole 13-2 lin. long; blade 1-2} in. long, 3-1} in. 
broad, elongate-ovate, acute or subacute, cordate or subcordate at the 
base, shortly and rather harshly hairy on both sides.  Umbels several, 
lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, 7-10-flowered; peduncles 3-1 in. 
long, shortly hairy ; pedicels 4-6 lin. long, shortly hairy. Sepals 3} 
lin. long, 14-14 lin. broad, shortly hairy and ciliate. Corolla about 4 
in. in diam., white; lobes campanulately spreading, 4 lin. long, 24 lin. 
broad, ovate-oblong, pubescent on the back. Coronal-lobes arising 
trom the base of the staminal-column and overtopping it by half their 
length, 34 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, dorsally flattened, oblong or cuneate- 
oblong, obtuse or slightly and irregularly crenately toothed at the apex, 
with 2 wing-like keels or flaps on the inner face, infolded so that their 
edges meet, reaching to rather more than half-way up, broadest at their 
obtuse apices. Staminal-column 14-12 lin. long; anther-appendages 
ovate, acute, their tips inflexed over the margin of the crater-like apex 
of the style, much below which the pollen-carriers are seated.—K. 
Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 124; in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 321; and 
in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 233. Gomphocarpus Grantit, 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 269. <Asclepias Grantit, Schlechter in 
Journ. Bot, 1895, 335. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe; on hills, Speke & Grant, 
216! Stuhlmann, 1652, 1659, and Karatschonjo, Fischer, 390 (ex Schumann). 
_ 30. S. eximium, V. #. Br. Stem probably tall, moderately stout, 
villous. Leaves spreading; petiole 1-2 lin. long; blade 1}-2{ in. long, 
311 in. broad, oblong-ovate, acute, cordate at the base, both sides 
somewhat harshly villous, the hairs being usually shorter and denser 
along the margins. Umbels several, lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 
6—10-flowered ; peduncles 1-2} in. long, villous; bracts none, OF very, 
caducous; pedicels 6-8 lin. long, villous. Sepals 4-5 lin. long, 
21-3 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, acute or subcuspl- 
date-acuminate, villous on the back. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the 
base, white; lobes campanulately spreading, 7-8 lin. long, 3-3} lin. 
broad, oblong, obtuse and minutely emarginate at the apex, glabrous 
on both sides, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes arising at the apex of the 
staminal-column and twice as long, violet-purple or dark purple- 
brown, ascending or erect, 5 lin. long, 14-1} lin. broad, pandurate- 
lanceolate or pandurate-oblong, slightly constricted below the middle 
and again at the base, obtuse, subacute or abruptly and obtusely 
cuspidate at the apex, bearing on the face slightly below the middle 
a fleshy erect acute or slightly bilobulate tongue-shaped process | ae 
long, channelled in the lower part from its margins being infol 
and decurrent as two diverging keels to near the base of the lobe. 
Staminal-column 2} lin. long; anther-appendages ovate, acute, Wit 
their tips abruptly inflexed over the rim of the crater-like apex ° 
the style; anther-wings 1} lin. long, narrowly triangular, projecting 5 
