Schizoglossum. ] ASCLEPIADER (Brown). 613 
attachment being produced into a rather stout cone; young follicles. 
ovate-lanceolate, obtusely beaked, white-tomentose, and covered with 
pubescent filiform processes about 2 lin. long. 
EASTERN REGION: Natal; South Downs in Weenen County, 5000 ft., Wood, 
4395! i 
This may easily be mistaken for 3. stenoglosswm, Schlechter, unless dissected. 
14, 8. pachyglossum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1894, 354); stems 
6-15 in. high, erect, usually simple, or in strong plants sparingly 
branched at about the middle, rather densely leafy, somewhat villous- 
tomentose; leaves very numerous, alternate, opposite or whorled, 
spreading or ascending ; petiole 1-1} lin. long; blade 4-1} in. long, 
3-3 lin. broad, linear-hastate or linear-oblong or lanceolate, acute 
or obtuse, often apiculate, hastate or subcordate-hastate at the base, 
revolute along the margins, pubescent with short spreading hairs, 
somewhat villous along the midrib beneath; umbels numerous, all 
pedunculate, or the upper sessile, subaxillary, crowded along the 
upper part of the stem, 5-15-flowered; peduncles Q-7 lin, long, 
pubescent or subtomentose; bracts 11-2 lin. long, subulate; pedicels 
2—4 lin. long, pubescent ; sepals 14 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, lanceolate, 
acute, pubescent ; corolla pentagonal in bud, quite glabrous ; lobes 
14-12 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, erect, incurved at the 
apex, somewhat reflexed at the sides; corona-lobes arising near the 
base of the staminal column and slightly overtopping it, j—-{ lin. long, 
usually contraeted at the middle into an ovate basa] part 5 liv. 
broad, and an upper oblong or rectangular part } lin. broad, bifid, 
emarginate or entire at the apex, rarely ovate with a truncate apex, 
flat, with a smaller rectangular or oblong, bifid or entire appendage 
on the upper part of the inner face, rather shorter than the lobe ; 
staminal column # lin. long; filament part short, subcylindric ; 
anthers subquadrate, erect; their appendages subreniform, very 
obtuse, slightly incurved over the rim of the style-apex at their 
tips; their wings obliquely triangular, broadest at the base, scarcely 
horny ; pollen-carriers seated much below the rim of the dilated, 
pentagonal, concave style-apex; follicles solitary, erect, lanceolate, 
beaked, covered with ascending, bristle-like processes, pubescent. 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 421. 
Vag. 8, productum (N. E. Br.); corona-lobes with the tapering or linear- 
subulate appendage on their inner face exceeding the lobe and overtopping the 
staminal column. 
Var. y, abbreviatum (N, E. Br.); corona-lobes with a subulate appendage on 
bord face, exceeding the lobe, but shorter than or not exceeding the staminat 
umn. 
Coast Recion: King Williamstown Div.; near King Williamstown, Krook, 
817 (ex Schlechter). 
. Katanarr Recion: Basutoland; without precise locality, Cooper, 3147 
Orange Free State; on a hill near Harrismith, 5000-6000 ft., Wood, 5383 | 
Sankey, 178! Besters Vley, near Witzies Hoek, 6000 ft., Bolus, 8110! Flanagan, 
1881! Var. 6: Transvaal; Houtbosch, Reimann, 5867 ! 
_ Eastern Ree@ion: Griqualand East; at the foot of Ingeli Mountains, Tyson, 
