Schizoglossum. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 657 
Coast Recion: Komgha Div.; in a grassy valley near Komgha, 2000 ft., 
Flanagan, 1015! Ngqueleni Div.; in Mlengana Cutting, between St. John’s 
and the Umgazi River, Bolus, 10199! between Umgazi River and Fakus Kraal, 
1000-1509 ft. Dréye, 4979! 
Lagarinthus virgatus, var. glabratus, Meisn. in Hook, Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 
1848, 544 (by error 444) ; Krauss in Flora, 1844, 826, collected by Krauss, near 
Uitenhage, is unknown to me. There is no description beyond the following :— 
‘* Leaves glabrous, shorter than or scarcely exceeding the internodes.” 
81. S. loreum (S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 310); stem solitary, 
about 18 in. high, slender, about 3 lin. thick at the base, bifariously 
puberulous or thinly sprinkled with very minute blackish or dusky 
hairs, with about 18 internodes 7-15 lin. long below the flowering 
part; leaves erect, 9-11 lin. long, }—} lin. broad, linear or filiform, 
with revolute margins, acute, glabrous or the uppermost with a few 
very minute dusky adpressed hairs ; umbels about 9, sessile, lateral at 
the nodes, 8—-10-flowered ; bracts 1-11 lin. long, setaceous, dusky ; 
pedicels 2~3 lin. long, purple-brown, minutely puberulous with brown 
hairs; sepals 3 lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate, acute, dark purple- 
brown, puberulous; corolla-lobes spreading, 1} lin. long, { lin. broad, 
ovate, minutely notched at the acute apex, puberulous on the inner 
face, with a few adpressed hairs down the middle of the back, 
blackish-purple ; corona-lobes about 14 lin, long, rather thick and 
fleshy, rhomboid, tapering above into a long filiform point much 
exceeding and loosely curving and crossing one another over the top 
of the staminal column, with 2 diverging keels but no appendage on 
the inner face, apparently white ; staminal column about } lin. long ; 
anther-appendages roundish-ovate obtuse, inflexed over the top of the 
truncate style-apex, 
Katawart Reaion: Transvaal; open veld to the northward of Johannesburg, 
only one specimen seen, Rand, 1122! 
Allied to 8. virgatum, of which it has the blackish-purple flowers, but differs 
in its longer pedicels and different corona-lobes. 
82.8. Dregei (N. E. Brown); stem 3} ft. high in the only 
specimen seen, 1 lin, thick at the base, simple, bifariously puberulous 
on the upper part, glabrous below, with the internodes below the 
flowering part 11-33 in. long; middle and lower leaves 13-2} in. 
long, 4-1 lin. broad, the upper smaller, erect, linear, with revolute 
margins, acute, glabrous, umbels sessile at the nodes, 3-7-flowered ; 
pedicels about 2 lin. long, pubescent; sepals }—} lin. long, 3 lin. 
bruad, ovate, very acute, pubescent ; corolla-lobes apparently some- 
what spreading, with incurved tips, 1 lin. long, } lin. broad, oblong, 
minutely notched at the subacute apex, pubescent on the back, 
glabrous on the inner face ; corona-lobes } lin, long (including the 
point-like appendage), } lin. broad at the base, shortly exceeding the 
staminal column, basal part subquadrate forming a slight but usually 
distinct rim or line at the base of the broadly deltoid-ovate acute or 
apiculate appendage, which is nearly as broad as the lobe, erect and 
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