632 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Schizoglosswm. 
2-5 lin. long, pubescent to nearly glabrous; sepals 2-2} lin. long, 
lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent to nearly glabrous; corolla-lobes 
21-31 lin. long, 13-143 lin. broad, reflexed-spreading, oblong or 
oblong-ovate, acute or subacute, thinly and minutely puberulous 
on the back, quite glabrous on the inner face, dark brownish-purple 
(violet ex Sankey); corona-lobes much overtopping the staminal 
column, their basal part subquadrate, 1-14 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, 
narrowed to the base, 3-toothed at the top, with 2 subparallel keels and 
an appendage on the inner face, white, or with a dark purple line on 
the middle tooth and appendage ; lateral teeth minute, erect, faleate, 
or occasionally horizontally spreading from the shoulders, entire, or 
minutely denticulate; middle tooth 11-22 lin. long, subulate or fili- 
form, erect or nearly so, appendage arising just below the base of the 
middle tooth, 3-1 lin. long, subulate or filiform, entire, directed over 
the staminal column ; alternating basal-teeth 4 lin. long, deltoid or 
deltoid-oblong, acute or obtuse, inflexed over the opening to the 
stigmatic cavity ; staminal column 3-12 lin. long ; anther-appendages 
transversely elliptic or suborbicular-ovate, very obtuse, inflexed over 
the rim of the style-apex, which is crenate or divided into 5 small 
ovate lobes incurved around a central boss, Schlechter in Journ. 
Bot, 1896, 449. 
Var. 8, pubifloram (N. E. Br.) ; corolla-lobes puberulous or pubescent all 
over their inner face; middle tooth of corona-lobes 14-2} lin. long, sometimes 
hooked at the tips, longer than the 1-14 lin.-long appendage, which is usually 
bifid, sometimes divided nearly to the base, sometimes entire. 
‘Var, y, inandense (N. EH. Br.) ; corolla-lobes pubescent on the inner face ; 
middle tooth of the corona-lobes 3-1 lin, long, erect, subulate, shorter than or 
equalling the -1 lin.-long appendage, which is subulate and entire; follicles 
solitary, 2? in. Jong, } in. thick in the only example seen, fusiform, tapering into 
an obtuse beak and covered with several vertical series of ascending bristle-like 
processes 4-1 lin. long, minutely puberulous. 
Katanari Recion : Orange River Colony ; Besters Vlei, near Witzies Hoek, 
5500 ft., Bolus, 8108! near Harrismith, Sankey, 177! Transvaal; Donker Hoek, 
Schlechter, 3715! Var. 8: Transvaal; Concession Creek, Barberton, Galpin, 
787! near Johannesburg, Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6229! 6230! mountains 
around Houtbosch, Bolus, 11123! near Lydenburg, Wilms, 959! Henops 
River, near Irene, Conrath, 985! Swaziland; between Bremersdorp and 
Mbabane (Embabaan), Bolus, 12145! 
EastERN REGION: Pondoland; between Umtate and Engcocos, 2500 ft., 
Bolus, 10222! Natal; Sevenfontein, near Boston, 3000-4000 ft., Wylie in Herb. 
Wood, 5369! Umzinto, McKen, 3! Howick, Junod, 194! near Ixopo, Schlechter, 
6659, and Umgeni Valley, Krook, 824 (ex Schlechter) ; and without precise 
locality, Mrs. K. Saunders! Var. 8: Natal; Krans Kop, McKen, 21! near 
Durban, Guienzins ! Var. y: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 316 partly! and without 
precise locality, Gerrard, 1316 ! 
I believe the above to be S. robustum, Schlechter, but I have not seen a type 
specimen. It agrees with Dr. Schlechter’s description, and some of the 
specimens quoted were so named by him, whilst others I have seen were named 
by him S. verticillare and S. fasciculare, and I suspect that this is the plant 
he has mistaken for Aspidoglossum fasciculare in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 22 
in note, but not elsewhere. : 
42. S. pilosum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 20)5 
stem probably solitary, simple, 5-14 in. high, softly pubescent along 
