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Schizoglossum.] ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 611 
hastate or rhomboid-lanceolate, acute, or obtuse blade, 1-1: lin, 
long, 3-1 lin. broad, flat, with 2 contiguous parallel keels on the 
inner face, but no appendage, apparently yellowish or whitish ; 
staminal column 14 lin. long, much more slender in the Z lin.- 
long filamentous than in the head-like antheriferous part ; anthers 
much broader than long, their appendages cuneate-oblong, obtuse, 
inflexed over the truncate 5-radiate style-apex, their wings very 
small, prominently angular at the base; pollen-masses pear-shaped, 
pellucid within the outer margin or at the oblique apex, with 
terminal caudicles. 
Var. 8, lineare (N. E. Br.) ; corona-lobes 14-1 lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, erect to beyond the middle, then spreading, 
with the tips erect, but in most dried flowers apparently erect ; otherwise as in 
the type. 
Eastern Region: Griqualand East, at 4000-5500 ft.: Malowe Mountain, 
Tyson, 3112! Mount Currie, Tyson in Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 1085! Natal; 
hill near Nottingham Road, 4000-5000 ft., Wood, 5358! Var. 8: Natal; Dargle 
Farm, Fannin, 48! Drakensberg, Bolus in Herb. Guthrie, 4878 ! 
12. S. stenoglossum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 
45, 28); stems 1-2 to a tuber, simple, or with 1 branch at the base, 
6-18 in. high, with a spreading pubescence; internodes above the 
middle 13-2 in, long; leaves in 5-6 pairs, rarely more, ascending, or 
slightly spreading, 13-23 in. long, 1-9 lin. broad, linear to ovate- 
or oblong-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, with revolute margins, 
pubescent or somewhat scabrous above, hairy on the midrib beneath ; 
petiole 3-2 lin. long; umbels 2-5 to a stem, all corymbose, or the 
lower racemose, pedunculate, 3-10-flowered; peduncles 21-22 in. 
long, more or less densely villous-pubescent or subtomentose ; bracts 
2-3 lin. long, villous; pedicels 14-33 lin. long, densely villous or 
tomentose ; sepals 11-2 lin. long, 1-3 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, 
villous-pubescent ; corolla-lobes slightly spreading, 23-33 lin. long, 
13-1} lin. broad, oblong, obtuse or subacute, glabrous on both sides, 
slightly ciliate at the base, dark purple-brown, with yellowish- 
green lines between the veins, becoming blackish-purple when dried ; 
corona-lobes much exceeding the style-apex, erect, 1-1} lin. long, 
37a lin, broad at the ovate-lanceolate base, thence tapering to a 
subulate acute point, with 2 prominent keels having a rather deep 
groove between them, but no appendage on the inner face, at the 
very base on each side the margin is very abruptly folded and con- 
tinued inwards and upwards, uniting with the staminal column at 
the base of the anther-wings; staminal column about 1 lin. long; 
anthers broader than long, their appendages large, broadly ovate, 
acute, connivent in a broad cone over the top of the shortly and 
obtusely conical style-apex, their wings small, not angular at the 
middle, but of nearly equal breadth throughout; caudicles laterally 
attached below the truncate or rounded pellucid apex of the dark 
orange pollen-masses ; follicles 12 in. long, 5-6 lin. thick, fusiform- 
lanceolate, densely pubescent, and covered with filiform pubescent 
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