Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). 651 
obtusely pointed, slightly coneave at the lower part, with recurved 
margins at the tips, slightly pubescent on the back, glabrous or 
minutely ; uberulous at the base only on the inner face ; corona-lobes 
arising close to the base of the staminal column, the body of the lobe 
searcely 3 lin. long, 3—} lin. broad, somewhat rhomboid-ovate, with 
distinct tooth or projection on each side at the middle, whence it 
deltoidly tapers into a filiform point or apical appendage } lin. long 
abruptly inflexed over the top of the staminal column, with 2 keels 
decurrent from the point on the inner face, besides a submarginal keel 
on each side descending from the lateral teeth ; staminal column } lin. 
long ; anther-appendages elliptic or suborbicular, inflexed upon and 
covering the truncate style-apex; anther-wings very prominent, 
angular at their middle. 
Eastern Recron : Natal ; Shafton, Howick, Mis. Hutton, 206 partly ! 
Mingled with this plant was one specimen of S. Woodii, Schlechter. 
71. 8. parile (N. E. Br.); stem 8-15 in. high, simple, pubescent, 
with 5-6 pairs of leaves below the lowest flowering node; leaves 
erect, 3-13 in. long, 1—® lin. broad, linear, acute, nearly or quite 
glabrous, all shorter than the internodes and those at the flowering 
nodes rather inconspicuous and scarcely exceeding the flowers ; 
umbels 3-5, sessile at the nodes, sometimes closely placed, 
4-7-flowered ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, rather densely villous- 
pubescent ; sepals $—1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; corolla- 
lobes spreading, with incurved tips, 13 lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad, 
ovate or elliptic-ovate, subacute, thinly pubescent on the back, 
glabrous on the inner face, apparently striate with brownish on a 
paler ground; corona-lobes } lin. long and 2 lin. broad, closely 
contiguous and very broadly or transversely rhomboid at the basal part, 
abruptly narrowed into a filiform-subulate point 3 lin. long inarching 
in a bold eurve much above the style-apex and decurrent at its base 
to the middle of the inuer face of the lobe in 2 stout contiguous 
keels, with a small inflexed wing-like auricle at each margin below — 
the angular shoulders, apparently white; staminal column rather 
short and comparatively broad, scarcely 3 lin. long. 
Eastern Reoion: Natal; Shafton, Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 40! 405! 
72. 8. Buchanani (N. E. Br.); tuber about 4 in. long, ovoid ; 
stem solitary, 6-10 in. high, slender with 4—6 leafy nodes below the 
lowest flowering node, minutely pubescent; internodes 8-1} in. 
long ; leaves erect, shorter than the internodes, subsessile, }—1 in. 
long, 41-3 lin. broad, linear-filiform, acute, pubescent along the 
Mmidrib beneath and sometimes with a few hairs scattered along the 
revolute margins, otherwise glabrous; umbels 3-6, sessile at the 
nodes, 2-3- (or probably more) flowered; pedicels 1-3 lin. long, 
adpressed-puberulous; sepals *-1 lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, adpressed-pubescent ; corolla-lobes spreading, 14— 
1} lin. long, 2 lin. broad, oblong, minutely notched at the subacute 
