Schizoglosswm. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 371 
pollen-carriers erect, seated below the level of the rim of the style.— 
Asclepias eximia, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 335. 
5 Nile Land. Uganda: Ruwenzori ; Toru district at Virungo, Scott-Elliot, 
627! 
Closely allied to S. simulans and S. distinctum, N. E. Br., which see. 
31. S. Goetzei, XH. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 455. Stems 
erect, up to 3 ft. high, pubescent or tomentose. Leaves shortly petio- 
late; petiole 14-34 lin. long, channelled above, puberulous; blade 
2}-4 in. long, 4-13 in. broad, linear-oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, 
cordate at the base, puberulous on both sides, scaberulous near the 
margin, with 18-20 parallel lateral veins. Umbels lateral at the 
nodes, pedunculate, many-flowered ; peduncle 1-1} in. long, pubescent 
or tomentose; pedicels 44-7 lin. long, tomentose. Sepals 44 lin. long, 
ovate-oblong, acuminate, puberulous. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed nearly to 
the base; lobes 54 lin. long, elliptic, acute, 6 lin. long, white, suffused 
with reddish at the tips. Coronal-lobes arising about } lin. above the 
base of the staminal-column and overtopping it, 2 lin. long, ovate, 
truncate at the apex, with a triangular appendage on the inner face. 
Staminal-column 1 lin. long, stipitate. Apex of the style depressed. 
Follicles 34-4} in. long, 2-24 in. in diameter. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uhehe ; Kipundi Mountains, 6200 ft., 
674; Iringa, near Gumbira, 5200 ft., Goetze, 706. 
32. S. distinctum, V. Z. Br. All parts except the inside of the 
flowers clothed with short spreading hairs. Leaves spreading ; petiole 
very short; blade 2-4 (or more) in. long, 5-9 (or more) lin. broad, 
narrowly oblong or lanceolate-oblong, subobtuse, cordate at the base, 
subvillous on both sides. Umbels lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 
6—10-flowered ; peduncles 1-2 in. long; bracts 4-6 lin. long, }—} lin. 
broad, linear, obtuse ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long. Sepals 34-4 lin. long, 
1-1} lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Corolla about 1 in. in 
diam., 5-lobed nearly to the base, apparently white; lobes campanu- 
lately Spreading, 5 lin. long, 24-3 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtuse. 
Coronal-lobes arising close to the base of the staminal-column, and 
twice as long, erect, 3 lin. long, flattened, dilated at the base into 
an obtuse triangular auricle on each side, more or less constricted at 
the middle, then more or less widening out into a cuneate-oblong blede, 
subtridentate or irregularly and obtusely toothed at the apex, with a 
pair of contiguous collateral deltoid obtuse teeth on the face at the base 
of the constriction. Staminal-column 13-2 lin. long ; anther-appendages 
erect, ovate-lanceolate, acute, undulated on the margins, about reaching 
to the top of the style, which is rather stout, conical, with 5-6 obtuse 
contiguous obtuse lobules connivent over a cavity at the apex.—Mar- 
Jaretia distincta, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 255. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Mountains east of Lake Nyasa, 
Johnson ! 
