626 ASCLEPIADEX (Brown). [ Schizoglossum. 
long, 2-3 times as long as the apical point, ascending, abruptly 
incurved or hooked at its apex; staminal column { lin. long; anther- 
appendages + lin. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, loosely incurved over 
the depressed-truncate top of the style. 
Coast Reaion: Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, Zeyher! British Kaffraria, 
Mrs. Hutton ! 
32. §. ovalifolium (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 
5); stems 5-8 in. high, simple, 3-3 lin. thiek, shortly villous ; 
leaves in 5-8 pairs, very shortly petiolate, very spreading, {—1} in. 
long, 4-1 in. broad, elliptic, ovate or oblong, acute or obtuse and 
apiculate, rounded at the base, with narrowly revolute margins, 
thinly covered with short spreading hairs on both sides; umbels 
3-4, sessile at the nodes, 3-5-flowered ; bracts 2 lin. long, filiform ; 
pedicels 3-4 lin. long, shortly villous; sepals 23-3 lin. long, ¢ lin. 
broad, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, shortly villous ; corolla-lobes 
spreading, 3-3} lin. long, li lin. broad, oblong-ovate, subacute, 
pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face; corona-lobes 
with a broadly euneate basal part 1-1} lin. long, 15 hn. broad, having 
acutely angular shoulders, and truncately contracted into an erect or 
perhaps slightly recurving filiform point 14-2 lin. long, with a rather 
stout tooth-like appendage, } lin. long on the inner face, horizontally 
extended over the top of the 1-lj lin.-long staminal column and 
decurrent below as a keel; anther-appendages orbicular, inflexed on 
the broad truncate style-apex. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 420. 
Coast Rzcion: K iv. $ mgha, 2000 ft., 
Flanagan, 1307 ! omgha Div.; grassy slope near Komg 
In one flower of this plant I found the corona-lobes nearly all connate so as 
to form an imperfect cup. 
33. 8. Macowani (N. E. Br.); tuber elongated; stem solitary, 
simple, 2-42 in. high, pubescent, with 3-5 leafy nodes below the 
lowest flowering node ; leaves spreading, those at the flowering nodes 
3-5 in a whorl, 3-12 in. long, 1-3 lin. broad, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, somewhat rounded at the base into 
a very short petiole, revolute along the margins, seabrid-pubescent 
above and on the midrib (or sparsely all over) beneath; umbels 
sessile at the nodes, 3-6-flowered ; pedicels 3-43 lin. long, pubescent ; 
sepals 14-2 lin. long, 3% lin. broad, reflexed with the corolla, but 
not permanently, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla-lobes reflexed, 
3-31 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, minutely notched 
at the subacute apex, recurved or somewhat revolute along the 
margins, glabrous on both sides or thinly pubescent on the back 
and slightly puberulous at the base on the inner face, purple (Jlrs. 
Barber) ; corona-lobes 3 times as long as the staminal column 5 l 
11-12 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, subquadrate or subrectangular, 
3-toothed at the top, with 2 parallel keels and an appendage oP 
the inner face; lateral teeth about % lin. long, falcate, entire, 
thickened on the inner face into oblique keels which join the two 
