Schizoglossum. | _ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 617 
Creek, 3200 ft., Galpin, 861! and on the summit of Saddleback Mountain, 
5000 ft., Galpin, 1326! 
The flowers are white according to Mr. Galpin, but wheu dried, the corolla 
appears to be green and the corona white. 
20. S. diversum (N. E. Br.); stems 1-2 ft. high, }—$ lin. thiek 
at the base, simple, pubescent; internodes 3-14 in. long; leaves 
opposite or 3-4 in a whorl, erect or ascending, 1-2 in. long, $-$ 
lin. broad, linear or linear-filiform, with revolute margins, acute, 
cuneately rounded into the very short petiole at the base, scaberu- 
lously puberulous ; umbels often 2-3 at a node, pedunculate, race- 
mosely arranged, 3-9-flowered; peduncle 1-1 in. long, adpressed- 
puberulous ; bracts $—12 lin. long, filiform, deciduous ; pedicels 13-4 
lin. long, adpressed-puberulous; sepals 1-14 lin. long, }—} lin. 
broad, lanceolate, acuminate, thinly pubescent; corolla-lobes cam- 
panulately spreading, with incurved tips, 14-1} lin. long, }-{ lin. 
broad, oblong, narrowed to a minutely notched point, with the 
margins slightly recurved, glabrous on both sides, green (Miss 
Pegler); corona-lobes white (Miss Pegler), equalling or slightly 
overtopping the staminal column, 3—% lin. long }—% lin. broad, 
rhomboid-ovate, angular on each side slightly below the middle, 
much narrowed above, bifid or emarginate at the apex, where the 
sides are somewhat pinched together, just above the middle of the 
inner face arises a linear-oblong or ovate-oblong, erect appendage, 
3-2 lin. long, 11 lin. broad, exceeding the lobe, bifid, bipartite or 
emarginate at the apex, decurrent in 2 parallel keels at the base ; 
staminal column 2 lin. long ; anther-appendages reniform, or very 
broadly ovate, very obtuse, with their tips slightly inflexed over or 
on the rim of the broad depressed style-apex ; caudicles attached at 
or near the middle of the straight oblong-linear or oblong-lanceolate 
pollen-masses, which have a pellucid area immediately below the 
obtuse apex; young follicles fusiform, tapering into a long obtuse 
bigs puberulous, and beset with rather stiff ascending bristles 3-1} 
in. long. 
Coast ReGion: King Williamstown Div. ; Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton ! 
Eastern ReGi0N, at 1000-3000 ft.: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 
6! valleys near Kentani, Miss Pegler, 661! Pondoland ; hills between Umtata 
and St. Johns, Bolus, 8701! 
Very similar to S. Galpinii, Schlechter, but the leaves are not at all hastate, 
the flowers are smaller, the corona-lobes more angular at the sides, and the 
anther-wings smaller and much less prominent, besides a different distribution. 
21. 8. linifolium (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 4) ; 
tuber elongate-oblong or radish-like; stem solitary and simple or 
2-branched at the base, usually 6-15 in. (rarely 13-2 ft.) high, }—-$ 
lin. thick at the base, glabrous; middle and upper internodes 
mostly 11-41 in. long; leaves erect, 11-3 in. long, j-1 lin. broad, 
filiform or linear, acute, quite glabrous; umbels 2-9 to a stem, 
peduneulate, racemose, 3-6-flowered; peduncles }-3} in. long, 
rather slender, glabrous, or with a few minute curved hairs; 
bracts 1-11 lin. long, filiform, deciduous; pedicels 3-6 lin. long, 
