604 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Schizoglossum. 
the lobule the apex is truncate with a very distinct pocket-like 
depression ; appendage exceeding the staminal column, { lin. long, 
arising at the base of the recurved lobule, erect or incurved, linear or 
linear-subulate, bifid or entire at the apex; staminal column 1 lin. 
long; anther-wings broadly rounded, not at all angular; anther- 
appendages broadly ovate, obtuse, erect, with their tips reaching to 
or shortly inflexed on the broad truncate style-apex, which has a 
sinuous-crenate margin and sometimes (always?) 5 small central 
tubercles; caudicles lateral at the obliquely truncate apex of the 
pollen-masses; follicles solitary, about 2 in. long, 4 in. thiek, ovoid- 
lanceolate, tapering to an obtuse point, covered with filiform pro- 
cesses 1-2 lin. long, everywhere pubescent. DC. Prodr, viii. 553 ; 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54,3. Cynanchum atropur- 
pureum, Diet. Synop. Pl. ii. 906. 
Whe a Glee Reeion: Aliwal North Div. ; on the Witte Bergen, 5000-6000 ft., 
rége! 
Katanart Recon: Orange River Colony; Besters Vley, near Witzies 
Hoek, Bolus, 8111! Harrismith, Sankey, 192! and without precise locality, 
Cooper, 2728! 
EasTERN ReGion : Natal; slope of the Drakensberg Range at Olivers Hoek 
Pass, Wood, 3471! Buffalo River Valley, near Charlestown, 5000-6000 ft., 
Wood, 5368 ! 
The tuber is sweet-tasted and is eaten by the Basutos, according to a note in 
Herb. Bolus. 
4, 8. hamatum (E. Meyer, Comm. 220); stem 3-23 ft. high, 
simple, 1-13 lin. thick, more or less compressed, puberulous with 
curved hairs; internodes 3-8} in. long; leaves shortly petiolate, 
8-2 in, long, ;4,—-14 in. broad, linear, linear-oblong or oblong to 
roundish-oblong, obtuse or emarginate, or (when linear) acute at the 
apex, often apiculate, truncate, cordate or hastate at the base, with 
obtuse or rounded auricles, subscabrous or thinly sprinkled with 
minute hairs all over or towards the revolute margins of the upper 
surface and on the veins beneath; petiole 1-2} lin. long; umbels 
3-7, racemose or the upper subcorymbose, 3-7-flowered ; peduncles 
1-13 in. long, pubescent or subtomentose on one side ; bracts 1}-23 
lin. long, filiform, puberulous ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, pubescent or 
subtomentose; sepals 12—2 lin. long, } lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute, puberulous ; corolla-lobes campanulately 
spreading or suberect, slightly concave, 3-4 lin. long, 1}-2} lin. 
broad, oblong, obtuse or rounded at the apex, apparently greenish or 
yellowish with purple-brown or blackish-purple veins or spots, or 
occasionally without markings, often drying brown or blackish- 
purple, quite glabrous; corona-lobes ascending-spreading, 2-] lin. 
long, 4-2 lin. broad, narrowly oblong to suborbicular, somewhat 
recurved at the margins, with an appendage near the minutely and 
obtusely bifid or rounded apex and 2 parallel keels distant from the 
margins on the inner face, apparently whitish; appendage s—] lin. 
long, from half to nearly as broad as the lobe at its base, erect or 
