624 ASCLEPIADEX (Brown). [ Schizoglosswm. 
pubescence) on the inner face, not ciliate, green, or greenish-brown; 
eorona-lobes exceeding the staminal column, }—3 lin. long to the 
tips of their points, with an appendage and 2 keels on their inner 
face; basal part varying from subquadrate with rectangular or 
rounded shoulders and truncately contracted or rounded into a 
subulate point to broadly ovate and acute, the point is probably 
directed outwards, but in some dried specimens appears erect or 
incurved ; appendage shorter than, or subequalling the point of the 
lobe, 1-2 lin. long, subulate or deltoid, acute, directed over the 
2 lin. long staminal column ; anther-appendages suborbicular ; 
follicles and seeds probably as in var. 8. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1896, 419, not of elsewhere. 8S. villosum, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. 
xviii. Beibl. 45, 29, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 420. Aspidoglossum 
heterophyllum, E. Meyer, Comm. 200; Decne in DOC. Prodr. viii. 
555. 
Var. 8, schinzianum (N. EH. Br.) ; plant usually more branched than in the 
type; leaves spreading; corolla-lobes 14-18 lin. long, about { lin. broad, 
apparently dark brown or greenish-brown with a minute whitish papillation on 
the inner face ; corona-lobes 14 lin. long to the tips of their points, their appen- 
dage subulate to linear, acute, obtuse or bifid ; follicle solitary, erect, 1$-24 in, 
long, about } in. thick, fusiform, tapering to an acute beak, thinly beset with 
ascending fine subulate processes about 1 lin. long and puberulous all over; seeds 
about 2} lin. long, 1} lin. broad, ovate, concave on one side, couvex on the 
other, rugose with long and short irregular acute ridges, glabrous, dark brown, 
otherwise as in the type. S. schinzianwm, Schlechter in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. 
Brandenb. xxxv. 51. 
Var. y, majus (N. E. Br.); leaves sometimes deflexed, with or without 
undulate margins, ninutely subscabrous to very pubescent ; corolla-lobes 2 lin. 
long, 1 lin, broad, dark*browr. or greenish-brown, with a minute whitish papilla- 
tion on the inner face ; corona-lobes 14-18 lin. long to the tips of their points, 
with their appendage subulate and entire or linear and bifid or trifid at the 
apex ; otherwise as in the type. 
Souru AFRICA: without locality, Mrs. Barber, 112! Var. y, Prior! 
Coast REGION: Stellenbosch Div.; hills near Gordons Bay, Bolus! Caledon 
Div. ; mountains near Genadendal, Bolus, 8479! Zwart Berg, near Caledon, » 
1000 ft., Bolus, 6689! George Div.; Outeniqua Mountains, near Roodemuur, 
2000-2500 ft., Drege! near George, 600 ft., Schlechter 2387! Port Elizabeth 
Div.; near Port Elizabeth, Mrs. Holland, 38! Bathurst Div.; Round Hill, 
Bolus, 6695! Albany Div.; Brookhuizens Poort, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1021! 
King Williamstown Div.; Keiskamma, Mrs. Hutton! Kaffirland, Brownlee! 
Var. 8B: Cape Div.; Devils Mountain, Rehmann, 1057! Orange Kloof, Wolley 
Dod, 2406! near Rondebosch, Fair in Herb. Bolus! Caledon Div. ; Zwart Berg, 
near Caledon, 1200 ft., Bolus, 6689! 7409! Var. y: Uitenhage Div.; Van 
Stadens Mountains, Zeyher, 347 ! 
This appears to be a variable species; the typical S. heterophyllum is very 
different in point of size and appearance from var. majus, but is distinctly con- 
nected with that by weak specimens of var. schinzianum, and I can find no 
characters but the size of the flowers to distinguish the three; the form 
of the corona-lobes is the same in all; possibly the living plants may exhibit 
differences not evident in dried specimens. There is an earlier reference to 
§. heterophyllwm (Schlechter in Verhandl, Bot. Ver, Brandenb, xxxv. 51 in note 
under 8. schinzianum, and in Engl, Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 16) which cannot 
belong to this plant, since from Dr. Schlechter’s note under 8, villosum (Hugl. 
Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 30) it is evident that the corolla-lobes of bis S. hetero- 
phyllum are not glabrous on the inner face, as they wre in typical S, hetero- 
