Schizoglosswm. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 631 
40. S. striatum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1894, 356); tuber 
small, ovoid; stem solitary, about 1 ft. high, simple, somewhat 
coarsely pilose or villous; leaves in 7-9 pairs below the flowering 
part, sometimes whorled at the flowering nodes, subsessile, erect 
or ascending, 3-11 in. long, 2-14 lin. (3 lin. ex Schlechter) broad, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, acute at the apex, rounded or subauricu- 
late at the base, revolute and pubescent along the margins; umbels 
5-6, sessile, 8—5-flowered ; pedicels 4-5 lin. long, puberulous (pilose 
ex Schlechter); sepals 2-23 lin. (14 lin. ex Schlechter) long, 3-3 
lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent ; corolla-lobes 2—2% 
lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, spreading, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 
subacute, recurved along the margins, thinly pubescent on the apical 
part at the back, glabrous on the inner face, green, striped with 
brown (Wood); corona-lobes about 4 times as long as the staminal 
column, white, edged with pink (Wood), with the basal part 1-1} 
lin. long, 1 lin. broad, euneately rectangular or subquadrate, 
3-toothed at the top, thickened and tuberculate or crested on the 
margins and lateral teeth, with two appendages (sometimes united 
into one pocket-like appendage) decurrent into 2 keels on the inner 
face ; shoulder-teeth 1—1 lin. long, erect, obtuse; middle tooth 13-2 
lin. long, subulate, erect, ineurved at the apex, keeled or crested 
down the inner face; appendages 2-8 lin. long, adnate for about 
1. lin. up the middle tooth, somewhat variable, sometimes free, with 
1 or 2 unequal subulate teeth at the apex, the longer tooth }-} lin. 
long, and the margins incurved so that the longer teeth are con- 
tiguous, or cross one another, sometimes with the margins connate, 
forming a little pocket with 1 or 2 contiguous erect teeth in front ; 
staminal column very short, 2 lin. long; anther-appendages rather 
large (minute ex Schlechter), roundish-ovate, inflexed over the top of 
the truncate style-apex. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 421. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Inandu, Wood, 863! 1210! and without precise 
locality, Mrs. Saunders (ex Schlechter). 
I have not seen the type of this species, and although there are some small 
discrepancies in the above description and that of Dr. Schlechter, who makes no 
mention of the remarkable thickened cristate margins of the corona-lobes, yet I 
— there can be no doubt of the identity of Wood’s plant with that of Mrs. 
unders. ; 
41. §. robustum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 267) ; stem 
apparently solitary, usually 4-1 ft., but sometimes 11-3 ft. high, 
1-12 lin. thick, rather coarsely pubescent, leafless on the lower part ; 
leaves very numerous and usually rather crowded, but lax in tall 
Specimens, mostly whorled at the flowering nodes, the others alter- 
nate, opposite or whorled, subsessile, ascending, 3-1} in. long, 3+ lin. 
broad, linear, oblong-linear or narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
rounded at the base, revolute at the margins, glabrous or slightly 
scabrous above, glabrous, or with a few hairs along the midrib and 
margins beneath ; umbels several, sessile at the nodes, 8-6-flowered, 
rather crowded along the terminal part of the stem, and often shorter 
than the leaves, or forming a somewhat spike-like mass; pedicels 
