622 ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). [ Schizoglossum. 
appendage ; staminal column 3-] lin. long; anther-appendages 
broadly ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the depressed-truncate style- 
apex; anther-wings triangular, broadest at about the middle; 
eaudicles attached to the apex of the large flat, pear-shaped pollen- 
masses ; follicles solitary, 1j-1{ in. long, narrowly ovoid-fysiform, 
beaked, puberulous, and beset with stout bristle-like processes. 
Lagarinthus eustegioides, E. Meyer, Comm, 207. Gomphocarpus 
eustegioides, Dietr. Syn. ii. 901; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 559. 
Asclepias eustegioides, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 6, 
and in Journ. Bot. 1896, 452. 
Centra Reaion: Graaff Reinet Div.; Sneeuwberg Range, Drege, 3438! 
Colesberg Div.; near Colesberg, Shaw ? Albert Div.; Burghersdorp, Guthrie, 
48B! 4880! 
Katanart Region: Orange River Colony; Leeuw Spruit or Vredefort, 
Barrett-Hamilton ! 
The corona-lobes of this plant are very similar to those of Xysmalobium 
brownianwm, 8S. crassipes was described from a very small plant with stems 
14-2 in. long, probably stunted by drought, whilst Guthrie, 48B, which is very 
different in general appearance, is from a very luxuriant plant, stated on the label 
to be 10-15 in. high; but all the specimens quoted unquestionably belong to the 
same species. E. Meyer's description and drawing in his Herbarium of the 
corona-lobes of Lagarinthus eustegioides is quite wrong. I have dissected his 
type and find it identical with the other specimens quoted above. 
96. S. orbiculare (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 19) ; 
plant 3-4 in. high, with several erect, simple stems, puberulous on 
the upper part, densely leafy; leaves 7-14 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 
erect, exceeding the internodes, linear, acute, with revolute margins, 
narrowed into a short petiole at the base, glabrescent ; umbels 
lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, about 6-flowered ; peduncle erect, 
much shorter than the leaves, thinly puberulous; pedicels 3-3 28 
long as the peduncle, thinly puberulous ; sepals 1 lin. long, lanceo- 
late, acute, shortly pilose ; corolla-lobes erectly-spreading, 2 lin. long, 
1 lin. broad, oblong, subobtuse, with reflexed margins, glabrous ; 
corona-lobes shorter than the staminal-column, suborbicular, obtuse, 
fleshy with a short obtuse appendage at the apex of the inner face 
slightly exceeding the lobe; anther-appendages suborbicular, very 
ones inflexed on the style-apex. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 
21. 
Easrern ReGion : Natal; Wessels Neck, 4300 ft. rare, Schlechter, 3895. 
Of this I have only seen a copy of Dr. Schlechter’s drawing of the floral 
dissections of his type, from which I partly describe. It seems to be allied to 
S. crassipes, but that species has rectangular or su uadrate shortly stalked 
corona-lobes thickened at the apex on the inner face, but without a distinct 
appendage. | 
97, S. umbelluliferum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 
94); a dwarf branching plant 3-4 in. high; branches erectly 
spreading, puberulous ; leaves erect, very shortly petiolate, 1;—-2$ In- 
long, narrowly linear, acute, with revolute margins, glabrate, paler 
beneath ; umbels lateral at the nodes, much shorter than the leaves, 
few-flowered ; peduncle about 5 lin..long, deflexed after flowering ; 
