Schizoglossum.] ASCLEPIADEX (Brown). 659 
glabrous ; leaves 1-1} in. long on the middle part of the stem, 
gradually decreasing on the flowering part to } in. long, } lin, broad, 
filiform, acute, erect, glabrous; umbels sessile at 3-9 of the upper 
nodes, 2-15-flowered ; pedicels 11-12 lin. long, villous-pubescent ; 
sepals } lin. long, ovate, acute, villous-pubescent ; corolla-lobes 
spreading, 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate, minutely 
notched at the subacute meurved apex, recurved along the margins, 
villous-pubescent on the back, puberulous on the inner face, with a 
tuft of long hairs just below the apex; corona-lobes arising above the 
base of the staminal column and incurved over it, scarcely 3 lin. long, 
subquadrate at the basal part, deltoid above, acute, with 2 minute 
teeth descending as 2 keels near the margins at about the middle on 
the inner face; appendage none ; staminal column about } lin. long; 
anther-appendages semiorbicular, } lin. broad, inflexed on the 
truncate apex of the style. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 420. 
Eastern ReGion: Transkei ; near the Tsomo River, Mrs. Barber, 847! 
Tembuland ; by the River Emgwali, near Engcobo, 2900 ft. , Bolus, 10198! 
85. S. tomentosum (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1894, 261, and 
1896, 420); stem 2-2} ft. high, simple or slightly branched and 
tomentose at the upper part, bifariously puberulous below, with 
internodes 13-41 in. long; leaves erect, 1-22 in. long, 4-1} lin. broad, 
linear-filiform, acute, with revolute margins, glabrous or the upper- 
most slightly puberulous; umbels several, sessile at the nodes, 
6-10-flowered ; pedicels 11-2 lin. long, shortly and densely villous- 
tomentose}; sepals 3-1 lin. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
adpressed pubescent or tomentose; corolla-lobes spreading, with 
much ineurved tips, 1-11 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, oblong or elliptic. 
oblong, minutely notched at the obtusely pointed tips, adpressed- 
pubescent on the back, glabrous on the inner face ; eorona-lobes 
(including the point) about equalling the staminal column, con- 
tiguous, very shortly connate at the base, basal part } lin. long, 
3-3 lin. broad, subquadrate, 3-toothed at the top, with 2 minute 
teeth decurrent as slight keels on the inner face (often evanescent in 
dried flowers), but no appendage on the inner face; shoulder-teeth 
minute, middle tooth } lin. long, erect, narrowly deltoid-subulate, . 
about } as broad as the lobe, very acute; staminal column +? lin. 
long; anther-appendages suborbicular, inflexed over the slightly 
depressed style-apex. Cynanchum filiforme, Linn. f., Suppl. 169; 
Thunb. Prodr. 46, in Weber and Mohr, Archiv. i. (1804) 28, Fi, 
Cap. ed. 2, ii. 157, and ed. Schultes, 235; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1253; 
Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 272; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 107; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 853; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 154; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 906 ; 
_ Deene in DO. Prodr, viii. 549, not of Jacquin. C. verticillare, Lam. 
Encycl. ii. 236. 
Coast Region: Uniondale Div.; near Ongelegen in Long Kloof, Bolus, 
2399 | Humansdorp Div. ; on hills below the mountains near Kromme River, 
Thunberg ! 
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