Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 645 
acute, apparently campanulately spreading, slightly puberulous on 
the back, inner face with a tuft of rather long hairs at the apex, a 
line of hairs along each margin and a few hairs down the centre, the 
rest glabrous, one margin ciliolate ; corona-lobes about 2 lin. long, 
3 lin. broad, broadly ovate, acute or subobtuse, rather fleshy, with 
2 keels but no appendage on the inner face ; the tips incurved over 
the staminal column, apparently somewhat folded or channelled on 
the back and thickened on the inner face ; alternating teeth none or 
obscure ; staminal column } lin. long; anther-appendages broadly 
ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the truncate style-apex. 
Eastern ReGion: Eastern border of the Transvaal at Ingoma, Gerrard 
McKen, 18171 
62. S. delagoense (Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 446); 
stem 15-24 in. high, slender, with 1-2 branches, puberulous all 
round at the base and along one line alternating at the nodes in the 
upper part ; internodes 1-12 in. long; leaves ascending (spreading, 
ex Schlechter), subsessile, 1-23 in. long, }-2} lin. broad, linear to 
narrowly lanceolate, acute, narrowed towards the base, revolute along 
the margins, glabrous on both sides; umbels several, sessile at the 
nodes, 1—5-flowered ; pedicels 3—4 lin. long, puberulous; sepals 1 lin. 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, puberulous ; corolla-lobes campanulately 
spreading, 2 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, oblong-ovate, subacute, 
thinly puberulous on the back, minutely papillate-puberulous on the 
inner face (not glabrous as originally described), minutely ciliate on 
one margin ; corona-lobes about as long as the staminal column, 1 lin, 
long, slightly spreading, connate at the base into a short cup, 
thomboid-ovate, obtuse, contracted below, with an erect subulate 
tooth 1 lin. long at the middie of the inner face and a small inflexed 
obtuse tooth on each side of it below the middle, the inner margin of 
which is decurrent as a keel down the contracted part of the lobe ; 
interspaces of the cup between the lobes broad, with 2 small 
inflexed teeth or produced into a broad membranous emarginate or 
shortly 2-toothed lobule of variable length and form; staminal 
column 1 lin. long; anther appendages broadly rounded, with their 
obtuse tips inflexed over the margin of the truncate style-apex. 
EAstERN REGION: Delagoa Bay, Junod, 184! 484! 
63. S. periglossoides (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb, xx. Beibl. 51, 
20); tuber elongated, radish-like, producing 1 or 2 simple stems 
9-20 in. high, puberulous along 2 lines or glabrous below, with 
internodes 14-22 in. long; leaves erect, 2}—-4} in. long, 3-1} lin. 
broad, linear, acute, subsessile or shortly petiolate ; umbels sessile, 
subglobose, 10-12-flowered, lateral at the nodes; pedicels 1-3 lin. 
long, dusky-puberulous ; sepals 3—1+ lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, thinly puberulous; corolla-lobes subereet or 
campanulately spreading, 2 lin. long, $-1 lin. broad, oblong or 
rather narrowly oblong-ovate, concave at the lower 4, narrowly 
revolute along the margins, recurved at the subacute tips, thinly 
