606 ASCLEPIADEX (Brown). [ Schizoglossum. 
curved hairs; bracts 1-2 lin. long, filiform or subulate ; pedicels 
1-5 lin. long, pubescent; sepals 1j-1} lin. long, about 3 lin. 
broad, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla-lobes 
21-98 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, erect, rather deeply concave, incurved 
at the tips, very broadly rounded or subtruncate at the apex, 
glabrous on both sides or slightly and very minutely puberulous on 
the inner face, apparently dark brownish-purple more or less suffused 
with greenish at the tips; corona-lobes whitish or with a purple 
central stripe, shorter than or equalling the staminal column, > lin. 
long and as much or rather more in breadth, subquadrate or sub- 
orbicular, with the margin recurved at the top or all round or bent 
back thus A, with an appendage and 2 keels distant from the 
margins on the inner face, from the apex of the keels a short , 
subhorizontal or deflexed transverse keel on each side extends to the 
margin ; appendage scarcely 3 lin. long, 1} as broad as the lobe at 
its base, erect, just overtopping the style-apex, linear, channelled 
down the inner face, more or less minutely bifid (rarely 3-toothed) 
at the apex or rarely divided to the base into 2 or 3 segments, or 
entire; staminal column 3 lin, long; anther-appendages oblong or 
ovate, obtuse, erect, with their tips very slightly incurved on the 
margin of the broad truncate 5-crenate style-apex ; caudicles lateral, 
attached above the middle of the oblong pollen-masses ; follicles 
about 2 in, long and 5-6 lin. thick, fusiform-lanceolate, tapering 
into an obtuse beak, finely pubescent with minute curved hairs and 
rather thinly covered with erect filiform processes 14-1} lin. long. 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot, 1896, 420. 
Coast Reaion, between 2000 and 5000 ft. : Komgha Div. ; among rocks 
near Komgha, Flanagan, 1040! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Hutton? 
Queenstown Div. ; on damp slopes near Queenstown, Galpin, 1964! Stutterheim 
Div.; Kabusie, Murray, 1637! Dohne Mountain, Bolus, 10220! 10221! British 
Kaffraria, Cooper, 468!- Mrs. Hutton { 
EAsteRN RecGion: Transkei; Kentani, Miss Pegler, 184! Kreilis Country, 
Bowker, 94! 296! near the Tsomo River, Bowker, 859! Tembuland ; Bazeia 
Mountain, 2500 ft., Baur, 818! Engcobo Mountain, Bolus ! 
6. 8. virens (E. Meyer, Comm. 219); stem 2-3 ft. high, simple 
or branching in the upper part, stout, 11-21 lin. thick at the basal 
part, pubeseent with minute curved hairs; internodes numerous, 
2-11 in. long ; leaves ascending or spreading, those at the middle 
and lower part of the stem 13-2 in. long, 3—% in. broad, oblong, 
obtuse or subacute, truncate or truncately subhastate at the base, 
the upper and those on the branches much smaller and more. 
hastate, minutely scabrous near the margins above and on the veins 
beneath, otherwise glabrous; petiole 1-3 lin. long ; umbels 3-9 to 
a branch or stem, racemose, pedunculate, 3-15-flowered ; peduncles 
1-11 in, long, subtomentose ; bracts 14-2 lin, long, subulate or fili- 
form; pedicels 11 in. long, subtomentose ; sepals 14-14 lin. long, 
8 lin. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, minutely pubes- 
cent; corolla-lobes ascending, 23-3 lin. long, 13-2 lin. broad, oblong, 
