656 ASCLEPIADEA® (Brown). [Schizoglossum. 
or filiform point } lin. long, usually having an inflexed tooth on one 
or both sides below the apex; staminal column } lin. high ; anther- 
appendages broadly ovate, obtuse, with the tips inflexed over the 
margin of the depressed style-apex. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 
450. Lagarinthus gracilis, E.. Meyer, Comm. 206, as to deseription 
and the specimens “ d.’’; Decne in DC. Prodr, viii. 556. DL. exilis, 
Deene lc. 556. Gomphocarpus gracilis, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 901. 
EASTERN REGION: Tembuland; between Bashee River and Umtata River, 
Drége, 4977 | Natal; between Umzimkulu River and Umkomaas River, Drege, 
4978 ! 
The type of Lagarinthus gracilis in E, Meyer’s Herbarium is Drége, 4978, 
and with it are placed 3 other specimens (2 of them belonging to different 
species), doubtless those quoted by E. Meyer ‘under that species, although not so 
named by him, one (8S. addoense) having no name, the other two, although 
bearing the same (unpublished) name, belong respectively to S. evile and 
S. Dregei. By the kindness of Mons. Casimir De Candolle a photograph has 
been sent to Kew of the type of Lagarinthus exilis, Decne, which demonstrates 
that it and L, gracilis are both founded upon the same plant, viz, Drege, 4978, 
distributed by Drage as “ Lagarinthus gracilis, H. M., a.” A flower of 
L. exilis has also been compared with one from the type of Ls gracilis by 
Mr. Buser and found to be identical, so that, although Decaisne has described 
the corona-lobes of the two as being very different, in all probability if was an 
imperfect flower of the specimen named L. evilis which he examined, 
Lagarinthus gracilis, Meisn, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 544 (by 
error 444), and Krauss in Flora, 1844, 826, collected by Krauss near the 
Knysna River in Knysna Div., is unknown to me. Meisner says of it—* Bad 
specimens, differing somewhat from Drédge’s plant in having the leaves longer 
than the internodia and glabrous.” 
80. S. virgatum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 6); 
stem 1}-2 ft. high, usually simple, slender, puberulous, with 
numerous internodes 3-1 in. long; leaves erect, 3-13 in. long, 1-1} 
lin. broad, linear, acute, quite glabrous or thinly and minutely 
puberulous on the revolute margins and midrib beneath ; umbels 8 or 
more, sessile at the nodes, or the lower sometimes on peduncles 3-1} 
lin, long, 5-10-flowered ; braets 3-1 lin. long, subulate; pedicels }- 
1} lin. long, puberulous ; sepals 2-2 lin. long, $ lin, broad, ovate, 
acuminate, slightly puberulous: corolla very small, blackish-purple, 
glabrous outside, minutely papillate-puberulous on the lobes inside ; 
lobes campanulately spreading, with the tips apparently ineurved, 
3 lin. long, } lin. broad, oblong-ovate, subacute ; corona-lobes 4-3 
lin. long, dark-purple, subquadrate or somewhat elliptic, abruptly 
tapering into a short deltoid acute free point or mere apiculus behind 
and much shorter than the } lin.-long deltoid-subulate appendage on 
the inner face, which is incurved over the 3 lin.-long staminal column 
‘and decurrent at its base as 2 slight keels; anther-appendages 
orbicular, obtuse, inflexed over the margin of the depressed-truncate 
style-apex. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 4, and Journ. 
Bot. 1896, 420. Lagarinthus virgatus, E, Meyer, Comm. 208 ; 
pags si c Prodr. viii, 556. Gomphocarpus virgatus, Dietr. Syn. 
Pl. ii. 901. 
