Schizoglossum.] | ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). 641 
broad, rectangular, truncate at the top, having a slight median notch 
and the shoulders slightly produced into minute teeth, with 
an appendage and 2 keels on the inner face; appendage arising 
below the apex of the lobe, ? lin. long, subulate, acute, directed over 
the staminal column, with upcurved tips; alternating basal teeth 
minute, truncate ; staminal column 3—2 lin, long ; anther-appendages 
broadly rounded, inflexed on the truncate excavated style-apex ; 
pollen-masses linear, slightly curved, with a pellucid area at the 
apex where they are laterally attached to the very short caudicles. 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 420. 
Coast Reaion: Komgha Div.; on a grassy sandy slope near the mouth of 
the Kei River, 100 ft., Flanagan, 1044! 
The corona-lobes are described by Dr. Schlechter as ‘‘ ovate-ligulate, obscurely 
3-lobulate at the apex,” but I do not find them so in the type. There is a very 
slight broad erenature on each side of the smal] notch, but the general effect is 
that they are truncate, 
56. 8. biflorum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 25 in 
note) ; stem simple or rarely branched, 1-2 ft. high, with internodes 
82 in, long, minutely velvety-pubescent ; leaves erect, subsessile, 
8-28 in. long, 4-14 lin. broad, linear or linear-subfiliform, acute, 
with revolute margins, minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous ; 
umbels 6-13, sessile at the nodes, usually 4-12- (rarely 2-3-) 
flowered ; pedicels 311 lin. long, pubescent ; sepals 1-1} lin. long, 
1-1 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla-tube 
1 lin. long, glabrous; lobes spreading or reflexed, 13-2 lin. long, 
3-1 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, minutely notched at the subacute 
apex, thinly pubescent on the back, puberulous or pubescent on the 
inner face, apparently green or greenish-brown ; corona-lobes 3 times 
as long as the staminal column, white, purplish-tinted on the points ; 
basal part 1—3 lin, long, % lin. broad, subquadrate, 3-toothed at the 
‘top, with an appendage and 2 parallel keels on the inner face; 
lateral teeth minute, usually erect or incurved, rarely horizontally 
spreading; middle tooth 14-2 lin. long, subulate, erectly spreading, 
with the upper half incurved; appendages connivent-erect, 1-1} lin. 
long, subulate, sometimes bifid at the apex ; basal alternating teeth 
minute, obtuse; staminal column about 1 lin. long ; anther-appen- 
dages ovate or rounded, subacute or obtuse, inflexed over the 
marginal crenatures or tubercles surrounding the central boss of the 
style-apex ; young follicles narrowly fusiform, tapering into a beak, 
minutely tomentose. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 
4, and in Journ. Bot. 1896, 449. S. guelense, S. Moore in Journ. 
Bot. 1903, 310, and Rand, lc. 336. S. venustum, Schlechter in 
Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 24. Aspidoglossum biflorum, E. Meyer, 
Comm. 201; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 555. 
Var. 8, concinnum (N. E. Br.); corolla and corona-lobes purple-brown or 
' dark purple; otherwise as in the type. S, venustwm, var. concinnum, Schlechter 
in Engl, Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 25. 
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