Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 603 
acute, truncate, subhastate or subcordate at the base, pubescent along 
the revolute margins and on the midrib beneath, otherwise glabrous ; 
umbels several to a stem, sometimes more than 1 from the same 
node, racemose along the terminal part of the stem, pedunculate, or 
the uppermost nearly or quite sessile, 3—6-flowered; peduncles 
0-5 lin. long, pubescent or subtomentose ; bracts 1-4 lin. long, 
filiform, linear or spathulate, pubescent; pedicels 3-4 lin. long, 
pubescent or subtomentose; sepals 14-2 lin. long, } lin. broad, 
lanceolate, acute, pubescent; buds globose, with an apical depres- 
sion ; corolla-lobes suberect or campanulately spreading, 3-34 lin. 
long, 2 lin. broad, ovate, acute, with reflexed (perhaps replicate) and 
somewhat wavy margins, glabrous on both sides, apparently olive- 
brown; corona-lobes obcordate, with 2 parallel keels, 2 short 
transverse keels near the top and a long subterminal appendage on 
their inner face; obcordate part 1 lin. long, nearly 14 lin. broad, 
about half as long as the staminal column; appendage 13-1} lin. 
long, linear-cuneate, bifid at the apex, incurved over the 13-14 lin. 
long staminal column; anther-wings with a very prominent and 
rather acute angle at the middle; anther-appendages very broadly 
cordate-ovate, entirely inflexed over the top of the depressed-truncate 
style-apex ; pollen-masses dark orange, very much compressed or 
somewhat wing-like on the outer side near the caudicle, and this 
wing-like part is often more or less folded outwards. 
Eastern Recion: Eastern border of the Transvaal at Ingoma, Gerrard, 
1302 partly ! 
Similar to, but quite distinct from 8. cordifoliwm, yet difficult to characterize. 
S. virens has also been distributed as No. 1302. 
3. S. atropurpureum (E. Meyer, Comm. 219) ; root a tuber; 
stem 11-32 ft. high, 14-22 lin. thick, simple, pubescent all round 
or nearly so ; internodes 1-23 in. long; leaves very shortly petiolate, 
1-21 in. long, 1-1 in. broad, somewhat spreading, ovate-oblong or 
elongate deltoid-oblong, obtuse or acute, subhastate or subcordate 
with rounded auricles at the base, very broadly and cuneately con- 
tracted into the 1-1} lin. long petiole, thinly puberulous all over or 
only near the margins on the upper side, pubescent on the veins 
beneath ; umbels 5-12 to a stem, pedunculate, racemose, simple and 
10-20-flowered, or compound with 50-60 flowers; peduncles 4-1} 
in. long, pubescent or tomentose; pedicels 5-6 lin. long, rather 
slender, tomentose; sepals 12-12 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, lanceolate, 
acute, pubescent; corolla-lobes 21-3 lin. long, 1}-1} lin. broad, 
oblong, obtusely rounded at the apex, subereet, concave, somewhat 
incurved at the tips, glabrous on both sides, blackish-purple ; corona 
lobes with 2 very prominent parallel keels and an appendage on their 
inner face, apparently white; body of the lobe $ lin. long, 4 lin. 
broad, oblong or subquadrate, slightly broadest at the top, with the 
sides very abruptly reflexed from the keels, forming a broad channel 
between them at the back, at the apex is a small oblong obtuse 
lobule recurving over the top of this channel, and on either side of 
