652 ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). —~ [Schizoglosswin. 
apex, thinly adpressed-pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner 
face, blackish-purple or dark purple-brown, paler at the basal part ? 
one margin usually slightly ciliolate ; corona-lobes with a rhomboid 
body 2-1 lin. long, avgular at the middle, having 2 keels (often 
obliterated in dried flowers) on the inner face and a subulate or 
linear point or appendage 4—} lin. long, inflexed over the staminal 
column, with or without a distinct rim or slightly produced obtuse 
apex of the lobe behind its base ; staminal column 3—} lin. long ; 
anther-appendages broadly ovate, erect, with their tips inflexed over 
the rim of the crater-like style-apex ; follicle solitary, 1} in. long in 
the unripe examples seen, narrowly fusiform, tapering into a long 
beak, puberulous. ion 
EastEgsn Recion: Natal, Buchanan! 
_ Very similar to 8. parcum, N.E. Br., but the flowers are rather larger, entirely 
different in colour, and the corona-lobes are different in form. 
73. 8. parvulum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1894, 354); stem 
6-10 in. high, simple or (from injury) branched, 2-1 lin. thick at 
the base, puberulous, with 4-6 leafy nodes below the lowest 
flowering node; leaves erect or ascending 3-2 in. long or the lowest 
shorter, }—1} lin. broad, linear-filiform or linear, obtuse or acute, 
puberulous or minutely scaberulous; umbels 3 or more, pedunculate, 
racemosely arranged, 8—6-flowered ; peduncles 3-7 lin. long, puber- 
ulous or pubescent ; bracts about 1 lin. long, filiform ; pedicels 2-3 
lin. long, pubescent ; sepals 2-3 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, pubescent ; 
corolla-lobes slightly spreading, 14 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, Janceolate- 
oblong, subobtuse, pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face, 
brownish (Galpin); corona-lobes about 1 lin. long, including the 
point, 3 lin. broad at the oblong-ovate or somewhat rhomboid-ovate 
basal part, which has 2 minute teeth or a slight notch at the middle 
of each side, sometimes obliterated in drying, with 2 keels excurrent 
in the filiform point, which arises at the apex of the inner face or 
into which the lobe tapers and is abruptly inflexed over the } lin.- 
long staminal column; anther-appendages broadly ovate or sub- 
orbicular, subacute or obtuse, closely inflexed on the depressed- 
truncate style-apex and concealing it; caudicles subapical or lateral 
near the apex of the rather long and slender pollen-masses. _ 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 421. 
Var. B, sessile (N. E. Br.); umbels 3-6 to a stem or branch, all sessile or 
the lowest with a peduncle 1-2 lin. long; corolla-lobes 14-13 lin. long, 3-2 lin. 
broad ; corona-lobes with the basal part 3-3 lin. long and the inflexed point oF 
appendage 3-1 lin. long, usually arising just below the apex of the inner face of 
pe lobe, which then forms a slight rim behind it; staminal column 3-§ lin 
ong. 
Coast ReGion: Queenstown Div.; Finchams Nek, near Queenstown, 3800- 
4000 ft., Galpin, 1600! Var, 8: Bathurst Div.; south of Blaauw Krantz, 
Burchell, 3887 | Trapps Valley, Miss Daly, 628! 
__EasTEeRN REGION: Transkei; Kreilis Country, Bowker, 301! Tembulands 
hills near Bazeia, 2000-2500 ft., Baur, 3441 = 
