620 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [Schizoglossum. 
dwarf and as much branched as in S. pygymeum; in floral structure they are 
alike, so that there seems no tangible distinction. Var. longipes has a different 
appearance and may prove distinct, but I have only seen a single specimen, and 
the floral structure is the same as in S. aschersonianum. Living plants may exhibit 
distinctions not observable in dried specimens. 
Gomphocarpus hispidus, Turez., quoted by Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. 
Beibl. 51, 32 in a note, I have been unable to find, and suspect it to be intended 
for Lagarinthus hispidus, Turez. Dr. Schlechter, however, refers it to Gompho- 
carpus involucratus (Xysmalobium involucratum). ; 
23. S. aciculare (N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. 1. 363) ; 
plant 2-10 in. high, with 2 or more stems, or branching at the 
base; stems or branches with internodes }—} in. long, puberulous, 
with minute curved hairs; leaves very spreading, subsessile, or 
very shortly petiolate, 1-3 in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, 
thinly puberulous above, glabrous, or nearly so beneath; umbels 
5-7 to a stem, racemose, pedunculate, 6-10-flowered ; peduncles 
5-10 lin. long, puberulous on one side; bracts 1-12 lin. long, 
lanceolate-subulate; pedicels 1-13 lin. long, puberulous ; sepals 
11-11 lin, long, 3-2 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute ; corolla 
usually, but not always lobed nearly to the base; lobes 
erect, with recurving or revolute tips, 1$-2} lin. long, scarcely 
1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, concave in the lower 
part, somewhat thickened, and very minutely papillate-puberulous 
on the inner face of the recurved apical half, elsewhere quite 
glabrous ; corona-lobes erect, 2-21 lin, long, subulate from a spathu- 
late-subeordate base, which is } lin. broad, with the auricles inflexed 
and forming a minute tooth on each side of the inner face, which 
is transversely thickened into a ridge just above them; staminal 
column J1-11 lin. long, of which the anther-appendages occupy 
more than half, much exceeding the style, } lin. broad, ovate, 
acuminate, or lanceolate, acute, connivent-erect, white ; anther-wings 
very prominent, angular at the middle; caudieles terminal at the 
tapering apex of the pollen-masses; style-apex 4 lin. long, conical, 
minutely 2-lobed. Stenostelma capense, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviil.. 
Beibl. 45, 6; xx. Beibl. 51, 41, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. 40. 
Katauari Region: Griqualand West ; between the Vaal River and Lower 
Campbell, Burchell, 1791! near Kimberley, Flanagan, 1693! Warrenton, Miss 
Adams,1! Orange River Colony ; Leeuw Spruit or Vredefort, Barrett Hamilton ! 
‘Transvaal ; at the foot of the Magaliesberg Range, Schlechter, 3689 ! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
_Schlechter has placed this plant in a separate genus, on account of the conical 
bifid style-apex (not the stigma as described by Schlechter) ; but this organ 1s 
very variable in several genera, e.g. Cynanchum, Secamone, Xysmalobium, 
Pachycarpus, and to some extent in Schizoglossum, that of S. aciculare being 
the most extreme variation in that genus, but not sufficiently so as to warrant 
its generic separation in my opinion, In one specimen of Schlechter’s 3689 the 
corolla-lobes are connate nearly to their middle into a globose-campanulate 
tube, in all others examined the corolla is lobed nearly to the base. 
_ 4. 8. garcianum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb, xxxviii. 28, and 
30, fig. 1, A-K); plant 6-10 in. high, branching from the base, 
