618 ASCLEPIADEX (Brown). [ Schizoglossum. 
minutely puberulous; sepals 1-1} lin. long, } lin. broad, lanceolate, 
acute, more or less pubescent and ciliate; corolla-lobes 13-2 lin. 
long, 1-11 lin. broad, spreading, with recurved margins or replicate 
in some dried flowers, flat in others, elliptie-oblong, subacute, 
glabrous on the back, minutely puberulous (rarely pubescent) on the 
inner face or its base, greenish ; corona-lobes arising j—} lin. above 
the base of the staminal column, about 2 lin. long, rather thick and 
fleshy, ovate or oblong-ovate, produced at the apex on the inner 
face into a subulate point 3 lin. long, horizontally inflexed over the 
style-apex, without keels (in the dried state) on the inner face, but 
with two very minute teeth at the base, sometimes obliterated 
by pressure ; staminal column #—12 lin. long ; anther-appendages very 
small, about 1-1 lin. in diam., roundish or subreniform, very obtuse, 
reaching to, or very slightly inflexed upon the margin of the con- 
vex style-apex. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 420. Asclepias 
filiformis, Linn. f. Suppl. 169; Thunb. Prodr, 47, in Nov. Act. 
Acad. Sc. Petrop. xiv. (1805) 507, Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 154, and 
ed. Schultes, 234; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1272; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 277 ; 
Poir. Suppl. Encycl. Meth. i. 479; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 81; 
Spreng. Syst. i. 847; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 142; Dietr. Syn. 
Pl. ii. 893. Asclepias tenwis, and A. Paehystephana, Schlechter im 
Journ. Bot. 1896, 454. Lagarinthus tenuis, . Meyer, Comm. 208. 
Gomphocarpus tenuis, Dietr. Syn, Pl. ii. 900; Decne in DC. Prodr. 
viii. 561. G. pachystephanus, Schlechter in Verhandl. Bot. Brandenb. 
xxxv. 52, 
Var. 8, centrirostratum (N. E. Br.) ; corona-lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, with a 
subniate point 3 ln. long from the middle of their inner face produced over the 
style-apex ; otherwise as in the type. 
Coast Reeion: Riversdale Diy.; hills near Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 
6730! 6777! Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River, Thunberg! Uitenhage Div. ; 
Addo, Drége, 4976! between Coega (Kuga) River and Sunday River, Drege. 
Albany Div, ; hills near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 672! Misses Daly §& Sole, 343 ! 
and without precise locality, Hutton! Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 2000 ft.» 
Hutton ! Queenstown Div.; near Queenstown, Mrs. Barber, 91! Cooper, 2448! 
Galpin, 15380! Cathcart Div. ; between Shiloh and Windvogel Mountain, Drége, 
3429! Tambukiland, Zeyher! Komgha Div.; hills near Keimouth, Flanagan, 
879! King Williamstown Div.; near King Williamstown, Sim, 290! 1642! 
Flanagan, 2179! Var. 8: Bathurst Div. ; Trapps Valley, Miss Daly, 677! 
rpg Div. ; near Grahamstown, Bolton! Stockenstrom Div. ; Katberg, Miss 
e, ! 
CenTraL Reeion: Somerset Div.; foot of Bosch Berg, MacOwan, 672! 
Cradock Div. ; near Cradock, Cooper, 1283! Aliwal North Div.; Klands Hoek, 
Bolus, 155 (10475)! Albert Div.; Burghersdorp, Guthrie, 4199 ! 
KaLawari Region: Basutoland, Cooper, 2727 ! 
Eastern ReGIon: Transkei; between the Gekau (Geua) River and Bashee 
River, Drége! near Butterworth, Bolus, 10190! Kreilis Country, Bowker, 297 ! 
Tembuland ; Bazeia, Baur, 343! Griqualand East ; around Clydesdale, 2500 ft., 
Tyson, 2167 | 
The specimens from near Cape Town, quoted by Thunberg, belong to 8. 
aschersonianum. 
22. §. aschersonianum (Schlechter in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. 
‘Brandenb. xxxv. 48); tuber producing 1 or more erect, simple, 
