650 ASCLEPIADES (Brown). [ Schezoglossum. 
rather abruptly rounded or contracted into an acute deltoid subulate 
or filiform point 1-3 lin. long, or simply acute or rarely obtuse 
without a point; appendage 4—} lin. long, varying from shorter than 
to much longer than the point of the lobe, subulate and acute or 
linear and obtuse or bifid, or reduced to a minute bifid process 
scarcely longer than broad, more or less ineurved over the }—3 lin. 
long staminal column, or, when very short, erect ; anther appendages 
orbicular, inflexed on the top of the truncate style-apex, which has a 
large slightly raised central boss with an impressed line across 1t ; 
follicles 21 in. or more long, with a fusiform swelling below the 
middle, tapering into a very long beak, puberulous. Schlechter im 
Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 16, and Journ. Bot, 1896, 420, 
Coast Region: Albany Div.; grassy slopes and Broekhuisens Poort near 
Grahamstown, 1800 ft., MacOwan, 639! Howisons Poort near Grahamstown, 
Hutton! in damp situations by New Year River, Mrs. Barter, 116! Komgha 
Div. ; hill near Keimouth, Flanagan, 1043! 
CentRaL REGION: Somerset Div.: on the summit of Bosch Berg, rare, 
MacOwan, 639! : 
EastEkN RuGion: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker ! Natal: Attercliff, 
800 ft., Sanderson, 449 partly ! Inanda, Wood, 1404! near Pinetown, Schlechter, 
3165! Clairmont, Wood, 8268 | Schlechter, 3085! Zululand, Gerrard, 1313! 
The comparative length of the corona-lobes and staminal column, and the form 
of their appendages is very variable. 
69. 8. tricuspidatum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 267) ; 
stem erect, 6-8 in. high, simple, thinly velvety, glabrescent at 
the base, densely leafy ; leaves erect, about 3-1 in. long, narrowly 
linear, acute, with revolute margins, narrowed into a very short 
puberulous petiole at the base, glabrescent above, puberulous 
on the midrib beneath; umbels sessile, lateral at the nodes, 
subcapitate, several - flowered; pedicels 1} lin. long, velvety- 
puberulous; sepals half as long as the corolla, lanceolate, acute, 
puberulous; corolla-lobes 1 lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, puberulous on both sides; corona-lobes erect, about twice as 
long as the staminal column, ovate-oblong, tapering into an erect 
linear obtuse point, with a ligulate tricuspidate appendage on the 
inner face, with its lateral teeth triangular, acute, and the middle 
tooth twice as large; anther-appendages transverse, very obtuse, 
inflexed on the style-apex. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 449. 
Eastern ReGion ? Caffraria ?, Mrs. Barber, in Grahamstown Herbarium. 
Is this distinct from the variable 8, carinatum ? 
70. 8. commixtum (N. E. Br.); stem 1-1} ft. high, simple, 
slender, bifariously puberulous; leaves erect, {-14 in. long or the 
uppermost smaller, 1—} lin. broad, linear, with revolute margins, 
acute, glabrous; umbels 3-8, sessile at the nodes, 3-6-flowered 5 
pedicels 3-4 lin, long, puberulous ; sepals 3-1}, lin. long, } lin. broad, 
Janceolate, acute, pubescent; corolla-lobes apparently ascending, with 
abruptly incurved tips, 1}-1} lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad, oblong, 
