608 ASCLEPIADER (Brown). [Schizoglossum. 
oblong, slightly emarginate at the very obtuse apex, concave, 
glabrous on both sides ; corona-lobes + lin. long, 3 lin. broad, much 
shorter than the staminal column, ovate or ovate-oblong, subtruncate, 
emarginate or shortly bifid at the apex, with a divided appendage 
and 2 parallel distant keels placed near the margins and having a 
short keel on each side extending from the base of the appendage 
obliquely downwards and to the margin on the inner face ; 
appendage 3—2 lin. long, arising near the apex of and more than half 
as broad as the lobe, much exceeding it and reaching to or slightly 
exceeding the style-apex, divided to the base into 2 subulate con- 
tiguous or slightly divergent segments straight or slightly recurved 
at the tips; staminal column 1-1 lin. long; anther-appendages 
broadly ovate, obtuse, applied to the underside of and not exceeding 
the rim of the concave or crater-like style-apex. Deene in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 554; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 3, 
excluding syn. Cynanchum euphorbioides, Dietr. Synop. Pl. ii. 906. 
Eastern Reoion: Natal; by the_sea-shore between Umtentu River and 
Umzimkulu River, Drége ; between Umzimkulu River and Umcomaas River, 
Drigns 4960! Umcomaas River, McKen, 4! and without precise locality, Drége, 
This is very like S. virens, E. Meyer, in floral structure, of which it may 
ibly prove to be a peculiar maritime form, but its general appearance is so 
different, that until both are better known, T deem it best to follow E. Meyer 
and Decaisne in considering them distinct species. It differs from S. virens in 
its apparently more shrubby habit and more crowded leaves, which are smaller, 
much more shortly petiolate, and often somewhat spathulate in form ; the flowers 
are also smaller, but appear to be of the same colour as those of 8. virens. 
Dréage’s specimen 4959 is stated by Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Betbl. 54, 3, 
to be distinet from §. euphorbioides, but in external appearance and in floral 
structure I find it to be identical with that species. There is no locality on the 
label of 4959, but it may be the plant collected between Umtentu and Umzim- 
kulu Rivers. All the specimens of S. euphorbioides, distributed by Drége which 
I have seen, other than those in E. Meyer’s Herbarium, are exactly like the 
‘ branchlets of Drége’s 4959. The specimen from Dutoits Kloof, placed under 
this species by E. Meyer, and named 8. emulum by Schlechter, belongs to S. 
cordifolium, 
8. §. nitidum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 18); 
stem 3-10 in. high, usually simple, flattened, pubescent, with about 
4-6 internodes, the middle 2 mostly 2-4} in. long, the others 
shorter; leaves ascending, shortly petiolate, 7-12 in. long, 1-5 lin. 
broad, linear to oblong, acute or obtuse, apiculate, varying from 
rounded to obtusely hastate at the base, thinly pubescent or sub- 
scabrous all over, or only along the revolute margins above, pubes- 
cent or hairy on the midrib beneath ; umbels 2-3, subeorymbose or 
the lower one distant from the rest, pedunculate, 3-7 -flowered ; 
peduncles 2-18 lin. long, pubescent or hairy ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, 
pubescent or hairy ; sepals 1} lin. long, > lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, 
shortly hairy; corolla-lobes 3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, suberect or 
erectly spreading, with recurved margins and incurved tips, oblong 
and obtusely pointed when flattened out, glabrous, on both sides, 
