Schizoglossum.] —_—ASCLEPIADEH (Brown). — 615 
appendage shorter than or rarely exceeding the lobe, erect, 2—} lin. 
long, subquadrate or rectangular, truncate, emarginate or bifid; 
staminal column 3 lin. long ; anther-appendages reniform, obtuse, 
applied to the underside of the broad and rather deeply funnel-shaped 
style-apex, which overtops them; pollen-caudicles very slender, 
attached near or above the middle of the 1-3 lin.-long linear or 
linear-oblong pollen-masses, which are of equal breadth throughout, 
obtuse at both ends, paler at the apex, but with no distinct pellucid 
space ; follicles solitary, about 1% in. long, 3 in. thick, lanceolate- 
fusiform, tapering to a beak, glabrous, thinly covered with filiform 
processes 3-1 lin. long. DC. Prodr. viii. 554; Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 3, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 419. Cynanchum 
bidens, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 906. 
Coast RrGion: Stockenstrom Div. ; Kat Berg, Drége! Queenstown Div. ; 
between the Klipplaat and Zwartkei Rivers, Drége, 3424! Table Mountain, 
Drege (ex E. Meyer). Cathcart Div.; Blesbok Flats near Windvogel Berg, 
Drége, 3422! British Kaffraria, Bowker (and Mrs. Barber), 771! 
CENTRAL REGion: Somerset Div.; near Somerset East, 2100 ft., Bolus! 
Graaff Reinet Div.; summit of Oude Berg and other mountains near Graaff 
Reinet, Bolus, 168! 12149! - : 
KaLaHaki Reeron: Orange Free State, Mrs. Barber, 737 ! 
17. 8. umbellatum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1894, 356); stem 
10-12 in. high, slender, erect, velvety on the upper part, densely 
leafy ; leaves longer than the internodes, 1-2 in. long, erect, narrowly 
linear, acute, with revolute margins, narrowed at the base into a 
short petiole, very shortly pubescent ; umbels lateral at the nodes, 
several-flowered ; peduncles 11-13 in. long, tomentose; pedicels 
4-5. lin. long, tomentose ; sepals lanceolate, acute, densely pilose ; 
corolla-lobes erectly spreading, 13 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ovate, 
obtuse, glabrescent on the back, pilose on the inner face; eorona- 
lobes nearly as long as the staminal column, slightly narrowed above 
the middle from an ovate base to a bilobed apex, with a slightly 
narrower appendage on the inner face, about reaching to the apex of 
the lobe, shortly notehed at the apex; anther-appendages large, very 
obtuse, inflexed upon the style-apex. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1896, 421. 
Eastern Region: Kaffraria, probably Transkei, Mrs. Barber (ex Schlechter). 
This only seems to differ from S. bidens by the corolla-lobes being pubescent 
on the inner face, but Dr. Schlechter states that the flowers are also smaller, 
18. S. atrorubens (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1594, 353); stem 
10-15 in. high, simple, puberulous with curved hairs; leaves 1-2} 
in. long, }—-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, often slightly dilated at the 
base, but not distinctly hastate, somewhat scabrous, ascending, those 
below the middle of the stem numerous and rather crowded, varying 
from alternate to verticillate, those above the middle usually in pairs 
‘1-14 in. apart; petioles 11 lin. long; umbels 6-8 to a stem, the 
terminal 3 or 4 corymbose, the others tacemose, 3-10-flowered ; 
peduncles 6-22 lin. long, puberulous ; bracts }—1} lin. long, subulate, 
