646 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Schizoglosswit. 
puberulous on the back, minutely papillate-velvety on the margins 
and upper part of the inner face, glabrous in the concavity, green on 
the back, sometimes stained with purple-brown, whitish on the inner 
face; corona-lobes shorter than the staminal column, 3—1 lin. long, 
4-1 lin. broad, erect, rather thick and fleshy, ovate, ovate-lanceolate 
or oblong-lanceolate, obtusely pointed, with a A-like thickening below 
the apex or slightly gibbous on the back, flat on the inner face, with 
a short fleshy erect truncate or broadly-rounded transverse appendage 
near the base and scarcely reaching to the middle ; staminal column 
11-11 lin. long; anther-appendages rhomboid-ovate, acute, with 
their tips inflexed over the rim of the shallow crater-like style-apex ; 
anther-wings angular at the middle ; follicles (not quite mature in 
the specimens seen) solitary or in pairs, erect from the recurved 
pedicel, 21-3 in, long, 1 in. thick, fusiform, tapering into a rather 
long beak, with about 6 longitudinal series of ascending subulate 
processes 8-11 lin. long and varying from fuscous-puberulous to 
nearly glabrous. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 421. 
Katanari Region: Transvaal; Jeppestown Ridges, near Johannesburg, 
6000 ft., Gilfillan in Herb. Galpin, 6231! Mundts Farm, near Pretoria, 
Schlechter, 4142! near Ermelo, south of Blesbok Spruit, Burtt Davy, 955! 
near Klein Olifants River, 5300 ft., Schlechter, 4027 ; Modderfontein, Conrath, 
983 ! Beginsel Farm, near Standerton, Burtt Davy, 3156! 
Dr. Schlechter has described the corona-lobes as “suborbicular, obtuse, furnished 
on the inner face at the base with a subquadrate fleshy scale, truncate ut the 
apex and scarcely equalling the middle of the lobe,” and “ above the middle with 
a short ovate obtuse erect ligule a little overtopping the lobe.” But in the 
specimens collected and named by himself, which I have examined, I find them 
as above described. This plant so closely resembles Krebsia stenoglossa and 
Xysmalobium carinatum in the dried state, as to be easily mistaken for either, 
until dissected. 
64. S. glabrescens (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 17); 
stem solitary, 1j—2 ft. high, slender, simple, with 15-18 internodes, 
varying from nearly glabrous to puberulous with very minute 
adpressed white or black hairs; leaves erect, 3-14 in. long, $3 lin. 
broad, linear or filiform, acute, glabrous or the upper with a few 
minute blackish hairs; umbels several, sessile at the nodes, 3-8- 
flowered ; pedicels 22-3 lin. long, very minutely adpressed-puberulous, _ 
often with blackish hairs; sepals 3-13 lin. long, }—} lin. broad, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute to subulate-acuminate, puberulous like the 
pedicels ; corolla-lobes rotately spreading, 11-12 lin. long, about 
4 lin. broad, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, often minutely notched at 
the subacute apex, usually with a few very minute hairs on the 
back, very minutely and rather thinly puberulous on the basal half 
or all over the inner face or glabrous on both sides, minutely ciliate 
on one margin; corona-lobes arising a little above the base of the 
staminal column, 3—2 lin. long and about as broad, broadly ovate or 
somewhat rhomboid-ovate or rhomboid-orbicular, notched and often 
recurved af the apex, rather abruptly contracted at the base, having @ 
slight notch on each margin at about the middle, with 2 keels and an 
appendage on the inner face, a small tooth or transverse ridge usually 
