610 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [Schizoglossum. 
staminal column nearly 1 lin. long; anther-appendages subreniform, 
obtuse, inflexed over the rim of the depressed-truncate style-apex 5 
anther-wings broadly angular below the middle ; caudicles attached 
to the middle of one margin of the pollen-masses. 
Eastern REGIon : Griqualand East; The Plateau, Haygarth in Herb. Wood,. 
4189! 
(10. S. elingue (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 149); 
stems 33-6 in. high, simple, softly pubescent, with spreading hairs 
along 2 broad lines; internodes }~1 in. long; leaves in 5-10 pairs, 
ascending, 3-18 in. long, 2-7 lin. broad, oblong, or linear-oblong, 
subacute, rounded, truncate, or obscurely subhastate at the base,, 
pubescent above and on the veins beneath, narrowly revolute 
along the margins; petiole }—2 lin. long ; umbels 2-3 to a stem, 
pedunculate, corymbose, 3-7-flowered ; peduncles 3-7 lin. long, 
pubescent along one side ; bracts 3-4 lin. long, filiform or subulate, 
pubescent; pedicels unequal, 13-3} lin, long, pubescent ; sepals. 
3-31 lin. long, % lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent, with 
spreading hairs; corolla-lobes erect, about 31 lin. long, 13-15 lin. 
broad, oblong, obtuse, thinly adpressed-pubescent on the apical part 
of the back, ciliate on both margins, and rather densely adpressed- 
puberulous on the inner face, white ; corona-lobes ereet, with the 
apical part slightly recurved-spreading, much overtopping the style- 
apex, 14-2 lin. long, | lin. broad at the rounded or subcordate base, 
narrowing to 4 lin. broad at the subequally 2-3-toothed emarginate 
or subtruneate apex, without keels or appendage on the inner face, 
thin and flat, white ; staminal column 1 lin, long; anther-appendages 
roundish-ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the style-apex; projecting 
angle of anther-wings rounded ; pollen-caudicles terminal. Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1896, 449. 
Nata: slopes of the Drakensberg Range, 6000-7000 ft., Evans, 358! 
11. §. flavum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 355); stems 
5-10 in. high, simple, flattened, more or less bifariously pubescent ; 
leaves in 3-6 very irregularly distant pairs, ascending or rather 
spreading, 3-18 in. long, 3—$ in. broad, ovate, oblong or linear- 
oblong, obtuse or subacute, rounded, subtruncate or subhastate at: 
base, pubescent on both sides ; petioles 1—2 lin. long ; umbels 1—4 to 
a stem, all, or all but the lower one, eorymbose, 3-7 -flowered ;. 
peduncle 1—1% in. long, spreading-pubescent ; bracts 1-2 lin. long, 
filiform, pubescent ; pedicels 13-4 lin. long, pubescent ; sepals 
13-1 lin. long, } lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent, and ciliate 
with spreading hairs; corolla-lobes 3-4 lin. long, 13 lin. broad, 
oblong, obtuse, suberect or campanulately spreading, flat, or slightly 
concave (with incurved tips?), glabrous on both sides, with or 
without a minute ciliation on one margin, yellow or green; corona- 
lobes arising 3-2 lin. above the base of the staminal column and 
much overtopping it, with a linear stalk }- lin. long, and a deltoid- 
