Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADEH (Brown). 621 
branches pubescent along 2 broad lines, with internodes {—y in. 
long; leaves numerous, opposite, widely spreading, 1)-2% in. long, 
3-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, glabrous or 
very slightly puberulous with minute scattered hairs ; umbels 2—3: 
to a branch, pedunculate, subcorymbose, 6—8-flowered ; peduncles 
9-6 lin. long, puberulous; bracts about 14 lin. long, puberulous ; 
pedicels 14-2 lin. long, puberulous; sepals 1} lin. long, > lin. broad, 
lanceolate, acute, thinly puberulous; corolla-lobes 2-2} lin. long, 
11 lin. broad, ascending, oblong-ovate, acute, glabrous on both sides, 
but with an exceedingly minute papillation on the inner face ; 
corona-lobes 1 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, ovate, acute, with an append- 
age and 2 stout, slightly diverging keels on the inner face ; append- 
age 4-1 lin. long, arising close to the apex of the lobe, subulate 
from a stout conical base decurrent as keels, directed over the 
top of the 12 lin.-long staminal column, recurved at the apex; 
anther-appendages subreniform-orbicular, erect, applied to the sides, 
and not quite reaching up to the margin of the depressed or crater- 
like style-apex. 
KaLanart Region: Transvaal; Komati Poort, Kirk, 108! hills near Komati 
Poort, 900 ft., Schlechter, 11730, 11734! 
25. §. crassipes (S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 383); tuber 
oblong, with an elongated neck branching into many stems at 
the ground-level; stems 13-15 in. long, apparently decumbent 
or procumbent, but according to Guthrie up to 15 in. high, 
bifariously puberulous; leaves spreading; petiole }-1 lin, long; 
blade 2-23 in, long, 2-3 lin. broad above the basal lobes, 
linear-hastate or linear, acute, cuneately narrowed below the 
short spreading obtusely triangular basal lobes or angles into 
the petiole, often revolute or slightly thickened along the 
margins, glabrous; umbels 1-5 to a stem, lateral at the nodes 
and terminal, pedunculate, 3—6-flowered ; pedunele varying from 
2 lin. to 14 in. long, minutely puberulous or nearly glabrous ; bracts 
1-12 lin. long, subulate, deciduous, or oecasionally large, leaf-like, 
and persistent; pedicels 2—4 lin. long, minutely puberulous ; sepals 
8_] lin, long, 4 lin, broad, lanceolate, acute, puberulous or almost 
glabrous on the back; corolla lobed nearly to the base, quite 
glabrous or occasionally with here and there a hair outside, purple- 
brown outside, white within (ex. Guthrie) ; lobes erect or ereetly- 
spreading, 11-15 lin. long, 3-2 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, minutely 
notched at the subacute apex, with revolute margins and recurved 
tips; corona-lobes arising about + lin. above the base of the staminal 
column, and attaining the same level, 2-1 lin. long, 3—$ lin, broad, 
rectangular or subquadrate, very shortly stalked at the base, thickened 
in a somewhat horse-shoe or A-shaped manner, and produced: into 
a very short obtuse point on the inner face at the otherwise rounded 
or subtruncate apex, the side angles of which are sometimes slightly 
horizontally produced, and sometimes with a minute tooth below 
them, flat, not keeled down the face or back, and without an 
