616 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Schizoglossum. 
puberulous ; pedicels unequal, 2—4 lin. long, puberulous; sepals 
12-11 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, pubescent; corolla- 
lobes 13-2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, suberect, ovate-oblong, with 
reflexed margins when alive, minutely notched at the subacute 
incurved apex, glabrous on both sides, blackish-purple outside, with a 
peculiar lurid greenish tint on the inner face in the dried state ; 
corona-lobes slightly overtopping the style-apex, 4-1 lin. long, 3-$ 
lin. broad, ovate-oblong, emarginate or subtruncate at the rather 
broad. apex, erect, with an appendage and 2 slight keels (often 
invisible in the dried state) on the inner face, apparently whitish ; 
appendage subapical, 2 lin. long, } lin. broad, transversely rectan- 
gular, emarginate, abruptly directed over the top of the large diseoid 
slightly depressed pentagonal style-apex; staminal column’ % lin. 
long; anther-appendages subreniform, applied to the underside of 
the style-apex, and scarcely exeeeding its margin ; pollen-caudicles 
‘very slender, attached near the middle of the % lin.-long linear 
straight pollen-masses, which are obtuse at both ends, and have no 
pellucid space. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 420. 
Eastern Ructon: Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, 4000 ft., Baur, 767 ! 
19. S. Galpinii (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 15); 
stem 12-15 in. high, about 3 lin. thick near the base, minutely 
pubescent ; internodes many, 3-11 in. long ; leaves erect or ascending, 
very shortly petiolate, 3-11 in. long, linear, with strongly revolute 
margins, about + lin. broad, dilated and subcordate-hastate at the 
1-1} lin. broad base, obtuse, minutely scabrous-pubescent ; umbels 
4-6 to a stem, pedunculate, racemose, 3-12-flowered ; peduncle 8-11 
‘lin. long, slender, densely puberulous; bracts about 1 lin. long, 
filiform ; pedicels 5-8 lin. long, slender, densely puberulous oF 
minutely subtomentose ; sepals 1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, lanceolate, 
acute, puberulous; corolla-lobes suberect, slightly ineurved at the 
tips, 13-2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, minutely notched at 
the subobtuse apex, more or less reflexed along the margins, thinly 
puberulous above the middle on the back, glabrous on the inner 
face ; corona-lobes slightly overtopping the style-apex, about 1 lin. 
long, % lin. broad, flat, broadly elliptic, or somewhat rhomboid- 
elliptic, bifid to + of the way down from the pointed apex, with 2 
rather indistinct parallel keels and an appendage on the inner face ; 
appendage + lin. long, arising at the base of the notch in the lobe, 
and slightly exceeding the latter, erect, oblong, widening towards the 
base, bifid (or entire Schlechter) ; staminal column almost 1 lin. long; 
anther-appendages subreniform, obtuse, erect, pressed against the 
side of the thick rim of the broad truncate 5-crenate style-ape*; 
which projects over the pollen-carriers ; anther-wings prominent, 
triangular in outline; caudicles attached near , the middle of the 
inner margin of the narrowly oblong pollen-masses, not at the end. 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot, 1896, 420. 
Katanari Region: Transvaal; near Barberton, on a hill-side near Rimers 
