Periglossum. | ASCLEPIADEX (Brown). 583 
column 12 lin. long, subglobose ; anther-cells slightly inflated, much 
curved on the back; anther-appendages rather narrow, oblong- 
lanceolate, subobtuse, horizontally inflexed on the small style-apex 
from the triangularly thickened truncate apex of the connective ; 
pollen-masses semicircularly curved, subterete at the attached opaque 
end, thin, flat, translucent and truncate at the free end, attached by 
very long stout doubly eurved or §-like caudicles to a very minute 
black pollen-carrier. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 
10, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 450. Cordylogyne globosa, Meisn. in 
Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1848, 546 (by error 446); Krauss in 
Flora, 1844, 827, not of E. Meyer. 
Coast Rzeion: Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 590, and in 
MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr., 1502 ! 
KALAHARI RxEGIoN: ‘Transvaal; Magaliesberg Range, Burke! Johannes- 
burg, Mrs. Hutton, 302! Modderfontein, Conrath, 981! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; by the Illetooli stream, Mrs. Barber, 823! 
Tsomo, Mrs. Barber (or Bowker), 860! Tembuland; Jackals Kop, Bolus, 10184! 
Engcobo Mountain, Bolus, 10185! Griqualand Hast ; around Kokstad, 5000 ft., 
Tyson, 1360! Natal; Lynedoch, 4000-5000 ft., Wood, 4547! near Charlestown, 
Wood, 5548! Congella, 40 ft., Schlechter, 3070! Hilton Road, Schlechter, 
6768! Maritzburg, Krauss, 171! Mrs. Hutton, 307! and without precise 
locality, Gerrard, 1293! Mrs. Fannin, 89! 
2. P. mossambicense (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 33, fig. 
2); plant 1-2 ft. high, with 1-4 simple stems, unifariously puberu- 
lous on the upper part, with 5-7 internodes ; leaves erect or ascend- 
ing-spreading, 21-41 in. long, 2—1 lin. broad, linear, acute, with 
revolute margins, glabrous; umbels 1-3 to a stem, lateral at the 
nodes and terminal, pedunculate, globose, about 6-8-flowered ; 
peduncles 2-1 in. long, puberulous on one side; pedicels scarcely 
+ lin. long; sepals 14 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, with 
a few scattered minute hairs on the back ; corolla-lobes 23-3 lin. 
long, 1 lin. broad, suberect, narrowly oblong, subacute, glabrous on 
both sides; corona-lobes erect, overtopping the staminal column, 
2-21 lin. long, = lin. broad, stalked, with a lanceolate-oblong obtuse 
blade about 22 times as long as the linear stalk and abruptly rounded 
(or tapering, according to Schlechter) into it, with a small transverse 
semicircular tubercle at the middle on the inner face, decurrent as 
2 slight keels, which are not discernible on some dried specimens ; 
alternating with the lobes at the base are 5 filiform segments about 
1 lin. long ; staminal column 1% lin. long, much contracted at the 
base and under the anther-appendages, which are very large, deltoid 
or triangular in outline, but longer than broad, obtuse, keeled down 
the inner face, erectly connivent much above the small obtuse style- 
apex, which is shortly produced beyond the pollen-carriers; pollen- 
masses flattened, curved, obtuse at both ends, semitransparent at the 
free end; caudicles nearly twice as long as the pollen-masses, doubly 
curved near the middle, the upper part straight, the lower incurved ; 
pollen-carrier minute, black. 
EastEgn Reoton: Delagoa Bay, Junod, 189! 
