Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADE® (Brown), 633 
2 broad lines, with rather long adpressed and spreading. hairs ; 
internodes 1-1 in. long; leaves erect or ascending, subsessile or 
very shortly petiolate, 3-14 in. long, 3-22 (23-93 ex Schlechter) lin, 
broad, all linear, or the lower narrowly oblong, subacute (ovate, 
acuminate or lanceolate, acute ex Sellechter), with revolute margins, 
pubescent ; umbels 2-3, sessile at the nodes, or solitary and terminal, 
3-7-flowered, usually exceeding the leaves ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, 
pubescent; sepals 2 lin. long, 2—% lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, 
pubescent, reflexed ; corolla-lobes reflexed, 2-23 lin. long, 14-14 lin. 
broad, oblong, minutely notched at the subobtuse tips, pubescent on 
the back, minutely puberulous on the inner face, except at the base, 
brownish-green (Wood); corona-lobes greenish-white (Wood), with 
a dark purple-brown stripe down the long point, the basal part 3-$ 
lin. long, 1 lin. broad, transversely oblong or subrectangular, 
thickened at the top, with a depression on each side of the dilated 
base of the point, which is 11 lin. long, linear, spreading, with the 
tip incurved, and has the margins of the depressions adnate to it 
behind at the base in the form of 2 small rounded auricles, and an 
appendage decurrent into 2 prominent keels arising at its base on the 
inner face; appendage 3—% lin. long, 2 lin. broad, linear-oblong, 
bifid (or trifid ex Schlechter’s drawing) at the apex, closely inflexed 
over the staminal column ;. alternating basal teeth unusually large, 
suborbicular, somewhat hood-like or concave, membranous, completely 
covering the opening between the very protruding bases of the anther- 
wings ; staminal column 2 lin. long; anther-appendages suborbicular, 
inflexed over the style-apex, which is truncate, with a depressed 
ring around a central boss, Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 1896, 421. 
Eastern Region: Natal; near Emberton, 1800 ft., Schlechter, 3238! 
Liddesdale,.4000-5000 ft., Wood, 4256 (not 4256 from Van Reenen) ! Greenwich 
Farm, Riet Vlei, on the Mooi River, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2748! Shafton, 
Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 404! Zululand, Gerrard, 1308! : 
I have not seen the t i i ies, but a copy of Dr. Schlechter’s 
drawing of the floral strnotars.| rasp Bolus, Pm well as we description, quite 
agree with the specimens above quoted, except that Dr. Schlechter appears to 
have figured and described a much flattened coropva-lobe. The method of fertili- 
zation of this plant would appear to be of « very special and complicated nature, 
as the unusually large basal teeth or lobules alternating with the corona-lobes so 
completely cover and conceal the opening at the base of the anther-wings, 
through which alone access to the stigma can be obtained, that it is difficult to 
understand how the pollen-masses can be inserted in it by an insect, as they must 
be for fertilization to take place. 
43, §. pulchellum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 15); 
tuber shortly carrot-shaped; stem solitary, 3-14 ft. high, simple, 
pubescent; leaves mostly alternate, erect and more or less pressed 
to the stem, subsessile, 3—11 in. long, 3-2 lin. broad, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, acute to obtuse, rounded to subtruncate at the base, with 
revolute margins, finely pubescent ; umbels solitary and terminal or 
1 terminal and 1-5 others lateral at the nodes, all sessile, 2-6- 
flowered ; pedicels 3-5 lin. long, pubescent; sepals 13-25 lin. long, 
{-1; lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent ;. corolla-lobes 
