Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADEE (Brown). 619 
or slightly branched stems, }-1 ft. high, often zigzag, with 
internodes 1-1 in. long, puberulous unifariously, bifariously, or all 
round; leaves erect or ascending, rarely spreading, 8-15 in. long, 
2-12 lin. broad, linear or filiform, glabrous, or thinly and minutely 
scaberulous, acute ; umbels 2-9, pedunculate, 3-8-flowered ; peduncles 
1—] in, long, puberulous ; bracts minute, subulate ; pedicels 1-3} lin. 
long, puberulous; sepals 3-3 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
- puberulous; corolla-lobes very spreading or recurved, 1 lin. long, 
8 lin. broad, oblong-ovate, obtusely pointed, glabrous on both sides, 
but with a minutely papillate inner surface, apparently olive-green 
or brownish; corona-lobes white, overtopping the staminal column, 
with the basal part 1—} lin. long, 4-3 lin. broad, broadly obovate or 
cuneate-subquadrate 3-toothed at the top, more or less reflexed at 
the sides, with 2 keels (often obliterated in dried flowers) on the 
inner face, but no appendage ; lateral teeth short, oblong, obtuse, 
sometimes slightly falcate; middle tooth j-} lin. long, filiform, or 
subulate and acute or linear and obtuse to bifid, incurved over the 
lin. long staminal column, at least at the tips ; anther-appendages 
suborbicular or broadly oblong, very obtuse, inflexed on the truncate 
style-apex ; pollen-masses scarcely curved; follicles solitary, 2}—3 in. 
long, 21 lin, thick, narrowly fusiform, long-beaked, smooth, glabrous. 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 419. Lagarinthus tenellus, Turez. 
in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1848, i. 256. 
Var. f, radiatum (N. E. Br.) ; middle tooth of the corona-lobes } lin. long, . 
oblong, notched at the apex, stellately spreading and scarcely reaching to the 
level of the style-apex ; otherwise exactly as in the type. ‘ 
Var. y, pygmeum (N. E. Br.) ; plant usually 2-3 (rarely 5-6) in. high, 
usually with several simple or branched stems ; pollen-inasses_ much curved ; 
otherwise as in the type. S.pygmeum, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1894, 335, 
and 1896, 421. 
x Var. 3, longipes (N. E. Br.); stem solitary, simple, 9-10 in. high, with 
internodes 1-2} iu. long, puberulous nearly all round; peduncles 1-2} in. long ; 
middle tooth of the corona-lobes purple ; otherwise as in the type. 
Coast ReGion : Paart Div.; near Paarl, Prior! Cape Div.; Flats and hills 
near Cape Town, Thunberg! Burchell, 898! Ecklon, 20! Harvey! Flats at 
Sweet Valley, Harvey, 233! Claremont Flats, Schlechter, 300! near . 
bosch, Bodkin! near Sandown Road, Wolley Dod, 2437! between Kalk Bay and 
‘Fish Hoek, Bolus, 4986! Stellenbosch Div. ; hills near Gordons Bay, Bolus! 
Var. 8: Cape Div. ; Simous Bay, Wolley Dod, 847! V’r. y: Albany Div.; near 
‘Grahamstown, MacOwan, 247! 906! in low valleys, Mrs. Barter, 223! British 
Kaffraria, Mrs. Barber (Bowker), 7771! Cooper, 3148! King Williamstown Div. ; 
near King Williamstown, Flanagan, 2171! Var.3: Humansdorp Div. ; in Long 
Kloof near Kromme River Heights, Bolus, 2400! 
CENTRAL REGION: Var. y: Somerset Div.; near Somerset East and on the 
plain at the foot of Bosch Berg, 2000-2800 ft., MacOwan, 1654! 
usually dwarfer, with more. numerous stems or branches, but I have seen 
specimens with a solitary simple stem, and others of 3. aschersonianum that are as 
