792 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [Sisyranthus. 
7. 8. trichostomus (K. Schum. in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 265); stem 14-2 ft. bigh, simple, thinly pubescent at the 
top, elsewhere glabrous ; developed leaves in 2—4 pairs, spreading 
or reflexed, but ascending in some dried specimens, 2-64 in. long, 
4-1} lin. broad, linear, acute, narrowed at the base, glabrous, 
minutely denticulate and ciliate on the infolded margins ; umbel 
solitary, rarely 2, terminal, subglobose, densely 12-30-flowered ; 
pedicels 1} in. long, shortly pilose ; sepals 14-2 lin. long, 4-2 lin. 
broad, linear-subulate, lanceolate or ovate, acuminate; pubescent 
or shortly pilose ; corolla-tube 3-1} lin. long, globose-campanulate, 
slightly constricted and densely bearded at the mouth, with 
the upper hairs ascending or converging and the lower defiexed, 
apparently yellow ; lobes 1-2 lin. long, }-1} lin. broad, spreading, 
but often appearing erect in dried flowers, oblong or ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, glabrous on both sides; corona-lobes shorter than the 
staminal column, 1—} lin. long, 4-3 lin. broad at the top, broadly 
cuneate, 3-toothed at the top, with the middle tooth short, very 
broad and bifid or deeply divided, lateral teeth minute ; anthers 
erect around and equalling the truncate style-apex, hairy at their 
tips. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 291. 8. virgatus, var. 
trichostomus, Harv. Thes. Oap. ii. 10. S. rotatus, Schlechter in Engl. 
Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 46. S$. expansum, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1897, 291. 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East; mountains around Clydesdale, 3000 ft., 
Tyson, 2146! and in Bolus and MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1084 ! 
Natal ; Dargle Farm, Mrs. Fannin, 51! hill near Camperdown, 2500 ft., Wood, 
5715! Greenwich Farm, Riet Vley, Fry in Herb. Galpin, 2736! between 
Greytown and Newcastle, Wilms, 2145! near Pietermaritzburg, Wilms, 2146! 
Rock Fountain, Mrs. Clarke! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 2165! 
Sanderson, 136 ! 
8. S. Huttone (S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1907, 154); stem 1-ly 
ft. high, simple, glabrous or with a few hairs about the iy waiver 
nodes ; leaves ascending or slightly spreading, 2-3} in. ong, 3-3 
lin. broad, linear-filiform, glabrous, minutely and adpressedly ciliate- 
denticulate ; umbels 2—3, lateral and terminal, apparently nodding, 
6—15-flowered ; peduncles 4-1} in. long; pedicels 5-9 lin. long, 
thinly puberulous along one side; bracts 1]—24 lin. long, subulate, 
minutely ciliate; sepals 14-13 lin. long, lanceolate, subulate- 
acuminate from the margins being infolded, with a very few hairs 
on the back or margins; corolla-tube 1-1} lin. long, subglobose- 
campanulate, densely bearded at the mouth and throat, with the 
upper hairs converging to the centre and the lower deflexed, other- 
wise glabrous ; lobes 1-1} lin. long, #-1 lin. broad, ovate or oblong- 
ovate, subacute, quite glabrous on both sides ; corona-lobes }-1} lin. 
long, triangular-ovate, with a minute tooth on each side near the 
base, acuminate at the apex into subulate or filiform points 
connivent above the anthers, with erect or recurving tips. 
Schizoglosswm Huttone, §. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, 383, and 
1907, 154, : 
