642 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Schizoglossum. 
Van, y, integrum (N. E. Br.) ; corolla dark purple-brown ; corona-lobes dark 
purple-brown or blackish-purple, 17-2 lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate or oblong-ovate 
at the lower half, not 3-toothed at the top, but gradually tapering into an erect 
subulate-filiform point incurved at the apex, without a trace of teeth at the 
sides; appendage 4-4 lin. long, much shorter than the point of the lobe, 
subulate, acute, or linear and bifid or subtrunecate at the apex, ascending over 
the # lin.-long staminal column ; otherwise as in the type. 
Coast Region: Cathcart Div. ; Windvogel Mountain, 4500 ft., Drége, 3427 ! 
Queenstown Div.; Intaba Magwela Mountain, near Queenstown, 3800 ft., 
Galpin, 1909! Var. y: Bathurst Div.; Linch’s Post, near the Kowie River, 
Bowie! 
Cenrrat Recron: Aliwal North Div.; Elands Hoek, near Aliwal North, 
4600 ft., Bolus, 10491 (F. Bolus, 238) ! 
Kabauari RreGion: Transvaal; near Klein Olifants River, Schlechter, 3794! 
near Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6147! Rand, 1009 ! 
1231! Magalies Berg, Burke! Zeyher, 1172! Ginsberg and near Johannesburg, 
Miss Pegler, 1053! Modderfontein, Conrath, 987! and without precise locality, 
Burtt Davy, 1162! Var. B: Orange River Colony; valleys and flats, Mrs. 
Barber & Mrs. Bowker, 733! Transvaal ; Catos Ridge, Schlechter, 3262. 
Eastern Ruaion: Transkei; valleys near Tsomo, Mrs. Barber, 793! Natal; 
Shafton, Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 301! 
S. gwelense, N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 360, must be referred 
to this species as a variety (var. gwelense, N. E. Br.), differing in having the 
basal part of the corona-lobes diamond-shaped and angular at the middle, not 
quadrangular with erect shoulder teeth; it may also occur in South Africa. 
Intermediate forms occur in which the shoulder-teeth spread horizontally. 
There is no specimen in H. Meyer’s Herbarium named Aspidoglosswm biflorum 
by E. Meyer, but a specimen (Drége, 3427) named by him <Aspidoglossum 
virgatum, accurately agrees with his description of A. biflorum and is identical 
with the plant distributed under that name by Drége, with the exception 
that there are (as he describes) only 2-3 flowers in a cluster on E. Meyer’s 
specimen. 
57. §. strictum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 22); 
stem about 2 ft. high, slender, straight, glabrescent ; leaves erect, 
very shortly petiolate, 3-1} in. long, narrowly linear, with revolute 
margins, acute, glabrescent ; umbels sessile at the nodes, few- 
flowered; pedicels short, unequal, pilose, deflexed after flowering ; 
sepals 1 lin, long, lanceolate, acute, puberulous, ciliate ; corolla-lobes 
2 lin, long, 1 lin. broad, erectly spreading, ovate-oblong, obtusely 
pointed, white-margined, glabrous on the back, puberulous with 
white hairs on the inner face ; corona-lobes ovate-oblong, tapering 
into a subulate point about as long as the oblong part and incurve 
over the staminal column, with an appendage decurrent in 2 keels 
on the inner face; appendage arising at the base of the point and 
nearly equalling it in length, inflexed on the top of the staminal 
column; anther-appendages ovate, very obtuse, inflexed on the style- 
apex, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 421. 
Eastern Reoron : Natal; near Ingagane, 4000 ft., Schlechter, 8405. 
Of this plant I have only seen a copy in Herb. Bolus of Dr. Schlechter’s 
drawing of the floral details. 
68. S. araneiferum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 13) ; 
‘stem 1-22 ft, high, simple or occasionally branching in the upper 
