644 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Schizoglossum. 
60. 8. restioides (Schlechter in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
xxxv. 50); tuber elongated ovoid; stem solitary, simple, 15-30 in. 
high, glabrous or with a very minute adpressed pubescence on the 
upper part, with internodes {-3 in. long; leaves erect, 5-11 lin. 
long, 2-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, glabrous ; 
umbels 3-9, sessile at the nodes, 2-4-flowered, sometimes crowded 
together into an oblong inflorescence j—1 in. long, sometimes distant ; 
pedicels 1-1 lin, long, very minutely adpressed-puberulous ; sepals 
11-14 lin. long, 8 lin. broad, ovate, acute or acuminate, rather thin, 
very minutely puberulous with adpressed black hairs ; corolla-lobes 
apparently erectly spreading, 2} lin. long, 13 lin, broad, oblong- 
ovate, obtuse, concave at the lower half, flat or with slightly recurved 
margins above, glabrous on both sides or with a few minute blackish 
adpressed hairs on the back, minutely ciliate on one margin at the 
base ; corona-lobes 1-12 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, rhomboid-ovate, with 
a horizontally projecting angle on each side below the middle, 
tapering above to a spreading or somewhat recurved (often apparently 
erect in the dried state) bifid or entire point, with an appendage 
and 2 keels on the inner face; appendage arising at about the middle 
of the lobe and much longer than its point, 1-1} lin. long, subulate, 
linear or lanceolate, acute or bifid, inflexed and one crossing another 
over the 12~12 lin.-long staminal column ; anther-appendages rather 
large, broadly ovate, obtuse, with their tips inflexed over the style- 
apex, which is rather small, crater-like, with the crenate margin 
incurved ; pollen-carriers partly concealed by the anther-appendages, 
unusually large, 1 lin. long, and larger than the pollen-masses. 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 419. S. pallidum, Schlechter in 
Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 19, and Journ. Bot. 1896, 421. 8. 
Randii, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1908, 310, and 339. 
: ees Region: Cape Divy.; Camp-ground near Cape Town, Schlechter, 
KALAHARI REGION: Transvaal; near Schoen Strom, in the vicinity of Klerks- 
dorp, Burke, 296! Zeyher, 1173! near Johannesburg, 6000 ft., Gilfillan wm 
Herb. Galpin, 6145! 6146! Rand, 1058! near Donker Hoek, Schlechter, 3708! 
plain at the foot of the Magalies Berg, 4600 ft., Schlechter, 3681. 
The Cape specimen (Schlechter, 740), on which the species was founded, is 
doubtless a chunce introduction from the Transvaal. I have examined flowers 
from the type specimens of both supposed species and find them identical. 
I do not find an “ inflexed obtuse lobule on each margin ” of the corona-lobes 
as originally described. They are as described above in Schlechter, 740, and all 
other specimens [ have examined, 
61. S. unicum (N. E. Br.); stem 15 in. high in the only 
specimen seen, simple, slender, pubescent along two broad lines 1n 
the upper part, glabrous below, with internodes }—} in. long ; leaves 
erect, subsessile, 1—3 in. long, 1—% lin. broad, linear, acute, wit 
‘revolute margins, glabrous on both sides; umbels about 6, sessile at 
the nodes, 3—5-flowered; pedicels 13-2} lin. long, adpressed-pubes- 
cent; sepals 1 lin, long, } lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, slightly 
puberulous; corolla-lobes 13 lin, long, $ lin. broad, oblong-ovate, 
