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662 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Schizoglossum. 
apparently purplish ; corona-lobes slightly exceeding the staminal 
column, nearly 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, ovate, obtusely bifid at the 
apex, with an oblong or subrectangular emarginate truncate or obtuse 
appendage 1—} lin. long decurrent into 2 keels on the inner face, and 
not exceeding the apex of the lobe; anther-appendages broadly 
rounded, subereet, applied to the underside of the slightly spreading 
margin of the depressed style-apex ; caudicles attached just above 
the middle of the straight linear pollen-masses, which are obtuse at 
both ends. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1896, 420. 8S, proemorsum, 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 28, in note. 
Souru Arrica: without locality, Mrs. Barber. 
Of this plant I have only seen one leaf and an umbel of flowers from the type, 
from an examination of which 1 suspect that it will prove to be only a slight form 
of S. bidens. 
XVII. FANNINIA, Harv. 
Calyx 5-partite; sepals narrow. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the 
base ; lobes overlapping in bud. Corona of 5 lobes arising from the 
staminal column, linear-oblong, flat, with a distinct midrib and 
bearing 2 erect lobules at their base. Stamens connate into a tube 
around the ovary, with the anthers united to the style ; anthers erect, 
broader than long, tipped with a membranous fringed appendage. 
Pollen-masses solitary and pendulous in each anther-cell, attached to 
the pollen-carriers in pairs by short abruptly curved caudicles, which 
are broadly dilated at the basal half. Style-apew truncate or slightly 
depressed, not produced beyond the anther-appendages. Fruit not 
seen. Panninia, Baill. Hist. Pl. x. 258. 
A tuberous-rooted herb, with opposite leaves and terminal umbels of showy 
white flowers with purple corona-lobes. 
DistRr1B. Monotypic, endemic. This genus is very closely related to Schtz0- 
glossum and should perhaps be united with it, the flowers are exceedingly like 
those of S. ewimium, 8. Grantii and some other allied Tropical African species, but 
differ in haying free basal lobules to the corona-lobes and no keels. The basal 
lobules are evidently the homologues of the minute free teeth at the base of the 
lobes in Schizoglossum linifolium. 
1. F. caloglossa (Harv. Gen. S, Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 235); stem simple 
or with 1 branch at the base, 4-10 in. high, villous with jointed 
hairs, but not densely ; leaves in 2-6 pairs, erect or slightly spread- 
ing; petiole 1-4 lin. long; blade 1-24 in. long, g—1 in. broad, 
usually the lowest ovate, the middle pairs lanceolate or oblong- 
lanceolate and the uppermost linear, or occasionally all ovate or 
oblong-lanceolate, acute to obtuse, rounded or more rarely subcordate 
at the base, villous with jointed hairs on both sides, shortly ciliate ; 
umbels solitary or a pair at the apex of the stem, pedunculate, 4-6- 
(rarely up to 10-) flowered; peduncles 3-21 in. long, villous ; bracts 
2-3 lin. long, filiform; pedicels 33-73 lin. long, villous; sepals 
