Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 648 
part, slender, glabrous or very minutely unifariously puberulous on 
the upper part ; leaves erect, 1-11 in. long, 1—4 lin. broad, linear or 
linear-filiform, acute, with revolute margins, glabrous; umbels 
sessile, lateral at the nodes, 2—6-flowered; pedicels 11~3 lin. long, 
adpressed-puberulous; sepals 3-1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, ovate, acute, 
glabrous or thinly puberulous; eorolla-lobes very spreading or 
perhaps reflexed, 11-12 lin. long, 2—1 lin. broad, oblong-ovate, acute 
or obtusely pointed, glabrous on both sides, greenish ; ecorona-lobes 
with the basal part closely contiguous, transversely rectangular, or 
subquadrate, 1—1 lin. long, abruptly contracted into 2 filiform points 
1-11 lin, long, which are quite free or more or less united at their 
basal part, ereet or directed slightly outwards below, then incurved 
high over the staminal column, with an erect filiform doubly bent 
appendage 1-12 lin. long, on the inner face and 2 keels deeurrent 
from its base; staminal column 2 lin. long; anther-appendages 
orbicular-ovate, obtuse, with the tips inflexed over the rim of the 
depressed-truncate style-apex. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 421. 
S. polynema, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 30. 
KaLanaRiI Recion: Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 935! Orange River 
Colony ; vicinity of Besters Vley, near Witzies Hoek (Mount aux Sources), 
Bolus, 8107! 
Eastern ReEGion: Natal; near Newcastle, 4100 ft., Schlechter, 3428. 
Portuguese East Africa; hill near Ressane Garcia, 1000 ft., Schlechter, 11907! 
The corona of this is quite unlike any other known to me, and in fresh flowers 
forms a pretty miniature crown. 
59. 8. capitatum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb, xx. Beibl. 51, 15) ; 
stem up to 3 ft. or more high, subsimple, bifariously puberulous ; 
leaves 1-15 in, long, not half as long as the internodes, erect, 
narrowly linear, acute, shortly pilose (probably puberulous is in- 
tended) ; umbel (head ex Schlechter) solitary, terminal, many- 
flowered ; pedicels short, unequal, puberulous; sepals half as long 
as the corolla, lanceolate, acute, pilose (puberulous?);  corolla- 
lobes erectly spreading, 2} lin, long, 1 lin. broad, ovate (oblong or 
lanceolate-oblong, according to a drawing), acute, glabrous on the 
back, bearded with white hairs on the inner face; corona-lobes 
subquadrate, 3-toothed at the top, with an appendage and 2 keels on 
the inner face; lateral teeth minute, spreading; middle tooth long, 
overtopping the staminal-column, subulate from a broad base, some- 
what inflexed at the tip; appendage arising at the base of the 
middle tooth and shorter than it, subulate, incurved; anther- 
appendages oblong, obtuse, inflexed on the 5-lobed style-apex. 
Sehlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 421. 
Katanart Reaton: Transvaal; ona hill near the Crocodile River, 4800 ft., 
Schlechter, 3905. : 
Of this plant I have only seen a tracing of Dr. Schlechter’s original drawings 
of the dissections of a flower in Herb. Bolus, from which I have slightly modified 
the original descriptions of the corona-lobes. 
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