Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADEX (Brown). 635 
EastERN ReGion: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 210! 342! 
Although a specimen of this plant was mixed with Aspidoglossum fasciculare 
in E, Meyers’ Herb,, it cannot be easily confused with that species, as in its 
general appearance and flowers it is quite distinct, whilst the coronal structure is 
utterly different. The corona-lobes are much more fleshy than is usually the case 
in this genus. 
45, 8. verticillare (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 25); 
tubers small, ovoid ; stem solitary, simple, 4-14 in. high, pubescent ; 
leaves very numerous, usually crowded on the upper half of the 
stem, ascending, the lower opposite or alternate, those at the flowering 
nodes whorled, 1-2 in. long, 1—% lin. broad, linear, subobtuse, with 
revolute margins, subsessile or very shortly petiolate, finely and 
rather softly adpressed-pubescent ; umbels 3-6, sessile at the nodes, 
 2-8-flowered ; pedicels 3-6 lin. long, pubescent; sepals 13-22 lin. 
long, = lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent; coroila- 
lobes reflexed, 23 lin. long, 12 lin, broad, ovate, minutely notehed 
at the subacute tips, pubescent on the back, glabrous, or very 
minutely puberulous on the inner face, apparently green or olive- 
green ; corona-lobes * lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, transverse, subtrun- 
cate, thickened and somewhat excavated at the top; appendage 23-34 
lin. long, arising at the top of the inner face, and decurrent as 
2 slight keels down the thiekened middle, filiform-subulate, with a 
minute tooth or shoulder on each side at the base, and acutely keeled 
down the back, the keel continuing across the depression at the top 
of the lobe; as seen from above the appendages all eurve to the 
left, forming a circle of loops around and above the {~1 lin.-long 
staminal column, not erect as described by Schlechter; anther- 
appendages subreniform, obtuse, inflexed upon the margin of the 
truncate style-apex. Schlechter in Journ, Bot. 1896, 449. 
Eastern ReEcion: Transkei; by the Tsomo River, Mrs. Barber, 830! 
Tembuland; between Cala and Elliot, 5200 ft., Bolus, 10217! Natal; near 
Emberton, Schlechter, 3242! Inanda, Wood, 316 partly! 863! 1434! Dargle 
Farm, Fannin, 6! Greenwich Farm, Riet Vlei, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2746! and 
without precise locality, Gerrard, 1307! 
46. S. Davyi (N. E. Br.) ; stem solitary, 1-14 ft. high, 4 in. thick, 
densely white-tomentose; leaves numerous, closely placed, mostly 
alternate, except at the flowering nodes, where they are verticillate, 
erect or ascending, very shortly petiolate, 1-1 in. long, 1-4 lin. 
broad, linear to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, subacute, flat or with 
revolute margins, densely whitish-tomentose on both sides; umbels 
2-5, sessile at the nodes, 2—4-flowered ; pedicels 1} in. long, tomen- 
tose; sepals 41-5 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, tomentose; corolla- 
lobes apparently campanulately spreading, 5-6 lin. long, 3-3} 
lin. broad, ovate, slightly notched at the subacute apex, 
densely adpressed-pubescent or tomentose and green on the back, 
glabrous or at most with a very minute papillation and closely 
veined with dark purple or violet on a greenish ground on the inner 
face, with greenish edges; corona-lobes arising at the base and 
somewhat under the staminal column, and ineluding the appendages 
