Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown), 653 
74. 8. parcum (N. EH. Br.); stem 10-12 in. high, simple, with 
3—5 leaf-bearing nodes below the flowering part; internodes 1-25 in. 
long, softly pubescent all round from base to apex; leaves erect, 
half as long as the internodes or less, subsessile, }-1} in. long, 
3-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revolute margins, minutely scabrous 
or nearly glabrous ; umbels 4—6, sessile at the nodes, 4—6-flowered ; 
pedicels 1-23 lin. long, adpressed-pubescent ; sepals 3—-} lin. long, 
3-} lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent; corolla-lobes 
spreading, 11-1} lin. long, 3-3} lin. broad, oblong, obtusely pointed, 
thinly pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face, apparently 
greenish, tinged with dull purple on the back; corona-lobes sub- 
quadrate, with an appendage having 2 minute teeth at its base and 
decurrent below as 2 keels on the inner face; subquadrate part 
3-1} lin. long, 1-3 lin. broad, rounded or truncate at the top, 
appendage arising near the apex of the inner face, 2?—} lin. long, 
linear, obtuse or truncate, with the apex incurved over or upon the 
top of the } lin.-long staminal column; anther-appendages broadly 
ovate, subacute, inflexed on the subtruncate style-apex. SS. filifolium, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb, xx. Beibl. 51, 16, not elsewhere. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 287! near Pinetown, Schlechter, 
3166 ! and without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders! 
Similar in structure to S. filifoliwm, with which it was united by Dr, Schlechter, 
but the stems are rather stouter with a very different and more spreading 
pubescence and constantly fewer and very much longer internodes, most of them 
being 14-2 in. long, giving the plant a different aspect, and in conjunction with 
the longer appendage to the corona-lobes and different geographic range are 
sufficient to discriminate it.. 
~ 75. 8. addoense (N. E. Br.) ; stem 10-15 in. high, branching at 
the base, 4-1 lin. thick; branches erect, subparallel, puberulous 
bifariously or nearly all round, with 2—4 leafy nodes below the lowest 
flowering node; internodes 3-1} in. long; leaves erect, {-2 in. 
long, 4-4 lin. broad, linear or linear-filiform, acute, with revolute 
margins, glabrous; umbels numerous, sessile at the nodes, 6—9-flowered ; 
pedicels about 2 lin. long, with a short spreading pubescence ; sepals 
3-} lin. long, 1-3 lin, broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent; 
corolla-lobes 3—1 lin. long, } lin. broad, apparently ascending-spread- 
ing, oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, with reflexed margins and incurved 
tips, thinly pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face; 
corona-lobes about 2 lin. long and broad, contiguous, very shortly 
connate at the base, quadrate, obtusely rounded at the top forming a 
slight rim (which is sometimes indistinguishable in dried specimens) 
behind the base of the almost terminal appendage, with a minute 
tooth near or at the shoulders, and 2 short parallel tooth-like keels 
on the inner face, often very obscure in dried specimens ; appendage 
} lin. long, deltoid-linear, aeute or obtuse, inflexed on the backs of 
the anther-appendages and not exceeding them; staminal column 
% lin. long ; anther-appendages suborbicular, inflexed on the top of 
the truncate style apex ; follicles 2-21 in. long, } in. thick, fusiform, 
tapering into a long beak, smooth, puberulous, 
