660 ASCLEPIADE® (Brown). [Schizoglossum. 
Thunberg describes the corona as monophyllous with 5 acute teeth. I find it 
as described above in his type specimen ; but the corona-lobes being closely 
contiguous and very shortly connate at the base has caused him to mistake it for 
a monophyllous corona. 
86. §. interruptum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviti. Beibl. 45, 
4 in note) ; stem 2-3 ft. high, usually branched in the upper part, 
with internodes 2}—4 in. long, gradually reduced to § in. long at the 
top, densely villous-pubescent or tomentose above, glabrous below, 
striate ; leaves subsessile, erect, 1-2} in. long, } lin. broad, linear- 
filiform, with revolute margins, acute ; umbels several to a stem or 
branch, sessile, 6-15-flowered ; pedicels 11-3 lin. long, slender, very 
villous; sepals 3-3 lin. long, about 1 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, villous ; corolla-lobes 13-1} lin. long, + lin. broad, very 
spreading, narrowly oblong, subobtuse, with recurved revolute 
margins, villous on the back, puberulous and with a tuft of long 
white hairs at the tip on the inner face, green (Haygarth) ; corona- 
lobes shorter than or reaching to the top of the staminal column, 
about } lin. long, 4-3 lin. broad, transverse or subquadrate, obseurely 
toothed on each side near the middle, truncate at the top, with a 
minute obtuse tooth- or tubercle-like appendage at the apex on the 
inner face very slightly exceeding the lobe and 2 small transverse 
keels extending from the lateral teeth ; staminal column about 3 lin. 
long; anther-appendages suborbicular, closely inflexed over the 
truncate style-apex. Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. Beibl. 54, 4, 
and in Journ. Bot. 1896, 450. Lagarinthus interruptus, E. Meyer, 
Comm. 208; Meisner in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. 1843, 544 (by 
error 444); Krauss in Flora, 1844, 826; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 
556. Gomphocarpus interruptus, Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 901. 
pe CEREBAT Recion: Aliwal North Diy. ; Wittebergen Range, 5000 ft., Dréges 
KaAvanari Region: Transvaal ; Ermelo, Burtt Davy, 994! z 
Eastern Reaion: Griqualand East; Vaal Bank near Kokstad, Haygarth m 
Herb, Wood, 4176! Natal; hills near Pietermaritzburg, Krauss (ex Meisner). 
The plant collected by Krauss may be distinct. In the Inde# Kewensis, ii. 
826, the name Schizoglossum interruptum is attributed to Bentham an 
Hooker f., Genera Plantarum, ii, 758, who merely state that Lagarinthus 
interruptus, E. Meyer, appears to be intermediate between Xysmalobium 
and Schizoglossum. — 
87. 8. altissimum (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 13); 
tuber oblong or ecarrot-like, }—} in. thick ; stem solitary, g1—3t ft. 
(up to 6 ft., Schlechter) high, branching at the upper half, pubescent 
on the flowering part, otherwiee glabrous, with internoles 1-2} 1. 
long; branches erect ; leaves erect, $-24 in. long, }-} lin. broad, 
linear-filiform, acute, with revolute margins, glabrous OF the upper 
adpressed-pubescent ; umbels numerous, sessile, 3-10- (or more 
flowered ; pedicels 14-2 lin. long, finely villous-pubescent ; 8° 
4 lin. long, ovate, acute, pubescent ; corolla-lobes spreading, 1 
lin, long, }-2 lin. broad, oblong, acute, with recurved margins, thinly 
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