Schizoglosswm.] _ ASCLEPIADEa (Brown), 609 
or with very few hairs on the back, white with pink lines (Wood), 
in the dried state sometimes with purple-brown veins and borders on 
the back ; corona-lobes erect, white (Wood), equalling or shortly 
exceeding the style-apex, 1-14 lin. long, 3 to nearly 1 lin. broad, 
ovate, elliptic-oblong or linear-oblong, bifid or variously toothed or 
subtruncate at the apex, with the teeth sometimes (always?) re-. 
curved, rounded, subtruncate or subecordate at the base, with two 
appendages and 2 parallel keels v1 the inner face ; appendages arising 
near the apex of the lobe ani not or but slightly exceeding it, 1-2 
lin. long, oblong or subquadrate, contiguous or overlapping, bifid or 
minutely or distinctly toothed at the apex, rarely simple ; staminal 
column about 14 lin. long, broadly obconic; anthers blackish or 
dark coloured in the dried state, their appendages subreniform, very 
obtuse, erect, reaching to the rim of the style-apex, white with a 
purple-brown centre; anther wings broadly rounded, and not very 
prominent at the basal part; pollen-masses with a pellucid space at 
one end; caudicles lateral ;' style-apex broad, shortly 5-lobed, with a 
raised rim and depressed cehtre, pink (Wood). Schlechter in Journ. 
Bot. 1896, 421; Rand in Journ. Bot. 1903, 200. 
KALAHARI REGIoN: Transvaal; in a marsh near Heidelburg, Schlechter, 
3519! Modderfontein, Conrath, 1014! around Johannesburg, Rand, 706! 863! 
near Middelburg, Schlechter, 3796! 
EasteRN ReEGion: Natal; Dargle Farm, Fannin, 18! 19! Mooi River 
District, 4000-5000 ft., Wood, 5578! hill near Mooi River, Wood, 5378! 
Shatton, Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 40a! 410! 
9. S. quadridens (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 252); 
plant 31-6 in. high; stems softly pubescent with spreading hairs 
along two broad lines, with about 6-8 internodes 3-13 lin. long; 
leaves ascending or suberect, 1-2 in. long, 13-7 lin. broad, lanceo- 
late, linear-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, aeute, or the lower sub- 
obtuse, rounded, subtruncate: or shortly cuneate at the base, 
revolute along the margins, rather softly pubescent with spreading 
hairs above and on the veins beneath; petiole 1-22 lin. long ; umbels 
2-4 to a stem, pedunculate, subcorymbose, about 6-8-flowered, softly 
pubescent like the stem (but more densely) on the peduncles, 
pedicels, bracts and calyx; lowest peduncle 3-14 in. long, the others 
shorter; bracts 2-3 lin, long, filiform ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long ; sepals 
2-3 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute ; corolla-lobes some- 
what campanulately spreading, 8-32 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, oblong, 
obtuse, thinly pubescent on the back, finely and more densely 
pubescent on the inner face, except along one margin, which is 
glabrous, white; corona-lobes shortly overtopping the style-apex, 
13, lin, long, 3 lin, broad at the base, ovate, subcordate at the base, 
harrowing upwards to a bifid, trifid, or rarely subentire apex, about 
4 lin. broad, with 2 slight keels and a bipartite appendage on the 
mner face, white ; appendage of 2 falcate-subulate segments about 
+ lin. long, arising near the apex of the lobe and not exceeding it, 
‘directed over the tips of the anthers with erectly recurved tips; 
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