628 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [Schizoglossum. 
top where it is truncately contracted into a subulate slightly 
incurved point % lin. long, furnished on the inner face with 2 
keels and a simple subulate or more or less deeply bifid appendage 
1 lin. long, directed over the ¢ lin.-long staminal column ; anther- 
appendages suborbicular, or slightly transverse, erect, just reaching 
to the rim of the broad truncate apex of the style. 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; near Cape Town at Wynberg Hill, very rare, 
Harvey ! Bolus, 4488! Camps Bay, Harvey ! 
36. S. contracurvum (N. E. Br.) ; stems erect, 5-6 in. high, 1 lin, 
thick, simple, shortly hairy ; leaves verticillate at the middle and 
upper part of the stem, opposite below, erect or ascending, 
1-1: in. long, 1-3- lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 
base subtruncate, margins revolute, subsessile, or with petioles 
up to 1 lin. long, coarsely pubescent above and on the midrib 
beneath with short ‘spreading hairs; flowers in 1-2 pairs at each 
of the upper nodes, the pairs alternating with the whorled leaves ; 
pedicels 32-6 lin. long, coarsely pubescent or subglabrous ; sepals 
reflexed, 11 lin. long, }—% lin. broad, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, coarsely pubescent; corolla reflexed ; lobes about 23 lin, 
long, 11-11 lin. broad, elliptic-ovate or oblong-ovate, subacute, 
glabrous on both sides; corona-lobes much overtopping the staminal 
column ; basal part 2 lin. long and rather more in breadth, transversely 
oblong, truncately contracted into an erect or slightly incurved 
subulate point 11-12 lin. long, and furnished on the inner face with 
2 keels and a strongly recurving subulate appendage about 12 lin. 
long, having a small auricle on each side of its base ; staminal column 
% lin. long ; anther-appendages subreniform-ovate, obtuse, with their 
tips incurved over the rim of the slightly depressed style-apex. 
Eastern Recion; Natal; Greenwich Farm, Riet Vley, Pry in Herb. 
Galpin, 2747! 
37. §. pumilum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 21) > 
stem solitary, 14-6 in. high, simple, erect, shortly pubescent ; leaves 
in 5-8 pairs or pairs and whorls, 3-5 of them below the lowest 
flowering node, erect or ascending, 3-17 in. long, 2-1} lin. broad, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, with revolute margins, minutely 
subscabrous or thinly puberulous above, thinly pubeseent on the 
midrib bencath; umbels 2-3, sessile, often crowded, 5-7 -flowered ; 
pedicels 21-4 lin. long, pubescent; sepals 1 lin. long, lanceolate, 
acuminate, thinly pubescent ; corolla-lobes very spreading OF slightly 
reflexed, 13-2} lin, long, 1-14 lin. broad, oblong-ovate or oblong, 
subacute, glabrous on both sides, or with a few hairs on the back, 
apparently dull or olive-green (green, Sankey), drying brown ; corona” 
lobes greenish-white, with a darker dorsal stripe, with basal part 
cuneately subquadrate, } lin. long, ¢ lin. broad, with subrectangular 
shoulders, truncately contracted into a filiform point 1-1} lin, long, 
which is probably spreading, but in some dried flowers appears erect, 
with a filiform-subulate appendage % lin. long arising at the base 
