6386 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). — [Schizoglossum. 
attaining to about the same level, ascending-spreading, cross-shaped 
in dorsal view, very obtuse, and sometimes with the margin slightly 
notched at the apex, apparently white, with or without a dark purple 
stripe down the back, 2-21 lin. long, 14 lin. broad across the main 
body, 22~3 lin. across the horizontal or upcurved arms, whose tips 
touch those of the adjacent lobes, with a very prominent stout single 
keel on the inner face united at its base to the staminal column 
and ending at the level of the arms in a flat platform, rounded in 
front, and bearing upon it a subulate or linear flattened appendage 
or horn 13-2 lin. long, directed outwards and slightly or abruptly 
curved to one side like a sickle, or in a sort of loop, glabrous or 
very minutely puberulous; staminal column about 2} lin. long; 
anther-appendages broadly rounded, inflexed on the margin of the 
broad circular style-apex, which in a specimen in formalin was cushion- 
like, but in dried flowers has a raised central boss from which radiate 
5 ridges, or is irregularly crumpled; pollen-carriers large, very 
broadiy triangular at the upper half, suddenly contracted into 
an gine lower half; pollen-masses large, sausage-shaped, falcately 
curved. 
Katanart Reaion: Transvaal; near Morgenzon, between Blesbok Spruit 
and Ermelo, Burtt Davy, 964! High Veld, between Swazieland and Carolina, 
5700 ft., Bolws,.12116! 
This is the most distinct and largest-flowered of the South African species of 
the genus. In a corona preserved in fluid in Herb. Bolus, the outspread 
arms, touching at the tips, are strongly suggestive of 5 children with their 
hands joined in a ring and dancing around a table. 
47. §. tubulosum (Schlechter in Engl. Jabrb, xx. Beibl. 51, 23) ; 
tuber small, ovoid; stem solitary, simple, 1-23 ft. high, puberulous, 
with internodes 2-1 in. long; leaves erect or with spreading tips, 
312 in, long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, 
glabrous or nearly so above, usually minutely puberulous on the 
midrib beneath; umbels about 5, sessile at the nodes, 1—-3-flowered ; 
pedicel 13-2 lin. long, thinly adpressed-puberulous; sepals 1} lin. 
long, % lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla cam- 
panulate, green (Wood); tube 11-13 lin. long, glabrous; lobes 
erectly-spreading, 2 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad at the base, ovate- 
oblong or ovate-lanceolate, acute, with reflexed margins, thinly 
pubescent. on the back, puberulous at the base on the inner 
face; corona-lobes twice as long as the staminal column, with the 
basal part subquadrate, 2 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad at the top, 
slightly narrowed below, with’ an appendage and 2 parallel keels 
on-the, inner. face, abruptly narrowed or contracted at the top into 
an erect subulate point 1 lin, long, with the lateral angles. or 
shoulders square, or very slightly projecting horizontally ; appendage 
arising at the base of the point, nearly 1 lin. long, linear-subulate, 
very acute, directed over the staminal column, with upeurved tips; 
alternating: teeth very short, obtusely rounded ; staminal column 
2 lin. long; anther-appendages ‘broadly ovate, subacute, with their 
