Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 605 
inflexed-erect with recurving or hooked and sometimes slightly diverg- 
ing tips, divided to the base into 2 subulate segments or very deeply 
bifid or occasionally entire, overtopping the 14 lin. long staminal 
column, which is somewhat excavated under the anthers ; anther- 
appendages broadly rounded or broadly ovate, with their tips inflexed 
over the rim of the broad, depressed-truncate style-apex; anther- 
wings obtusely rounded at the very prominent basal part ; caudicles 
attached below the apex or near the middle of the pollen-masses. 
Decne in DOC. Prodr. viii. 554; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 
Beibl. 54, 3, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 419. 8S. atropurpureum, Harv. 
Thes. Cap. i. 27, t. 42, and Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 
45, 2, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 419, not of E. Meyer, and var. 
lineatum, Schlechter in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xv. 67 partly. 
S. hastatum (error for S. hamatum, E. Meyer), Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 5 in note. Cynanchum hamatum, Dietr. 
Synop. Pl, ii. 906. 
Van. 8, pallidum (N. E. Br.) ; corolla-lobes 34-5 lin. long, 21-24 lin. broad, | 
apparently yellowish or greenish, without a trace of purple ; corona-lobes 1 lin. 
long, with an appendage 1-14 lin. long, exceeding the staminal column by 
end all its length, its tips more recurved and rather more diverging than in 
the type. 
Var. y, elegans (N. E. Br.); corolla-lobes 4-4} lin. long, 24 lin. broad, 
apparently white or creamy with purple tips and a few purple dots and lines on 
the veins. 
Coast Rearon : Queenstown Div. ; Andriesberg Range, near Bailey, 6000 ft., 
Galpin, 2266! Komgha Div.; hills near the Kei River, Flanagan, 373! 
Centrat REGIon: Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 1637! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei, Kreilis Country, Bowker, 11! Kentani district, 
Miss Pegler, 183! Kaffirland, Brownlee! Tembuland! near Cala, Bolus, 10218 ! 
Griqualand East ; Kwenkwe Mountain, 5800 ft., Bolus, 10219! Mount Currie, 
Tyson, 1441! near Kokstad, Tyson, 1685! Insiswa Mountains, Schlechter, 
6438! Krook, 800! Natal; Dargle Farm, Fannin, 63! Var. 8: mountains of 
Kaffraria, Mrs. Barber, 29! Var. y, Eastern Frontier, Mrs. Barber ! 
Easily distinguished from S. cordifolium, by not having the margins of the 
corolla-lobes folded backwards. The type specimen in E. Meyer’s (Drége’s) 
Herbarium has the leaves more crowded and very much narrower than usual, 
being 3-1 in. long and 1-1} lin. broad across the very base, and are linear- 
hastate in form. In floral structure it is identical with the other specimens 
queted, some of which have similar leaves at the top of the stem, whose unusual 
narrowness may be due to an insufficiency of water. Other species vary in a 
similar manner. 
5. 8. tridentatum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 5) ; 
stem solitary, 2-12 ft. high, simple or rarely branched, 2—12 lin. 
thick at the base, pubescent, terete or slightly compressed ; inter- 
nodes numerous, usually much shorter than the leaves, which are 
4-1} in. long, 1-6 lin. broad above the broader base, varying from 
ublong-hastate to linear-hastate, obtuse or acute, apiculate, somewhat 
seabrous above and on the veins beneath; petioles 1-2 lin. long; 
umbels 5-12 to a stem, pedunculate, racemose, usually 4—6-flowered ; 
peduneles 3-9 lin. long, pubescent or subtomentose with minute 
