Asclepias.] lxxxv. asclepiade/E (brown). 353 



(solitary?) ascending, ventricose, acuminate, covered with green 

 bristles. Seeds with a tuft of long white hairs. — Gomphocarjiua crinitus, 

 Bertoloni in Mem. Accad. Scienze Istit. Bologna, l^bly iii. 2.")3, t, 2U, 

 fig. 1 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 322. 



XVXozamb. Blst. Portuguese East Africa : lnlia;iibane, Fornasini (ei 

 Bertoloni). 



I have not seen this species, but it appears to be allied to A. Phillipsioe, N. K. 

 Br. Although the town of Inhambane is just soutli of the Tropic of Capricorn, the 

 plant in all probability will be found to occur w itliin the liniits of the Tropical 

 Flora. 



20. SCHIZOGLOSSUM, E. Meyer; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 



PI. ii. 75;3. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, rotate, or the 

 lobes campanulately spreading, reflexed, or rarely connate at their tip.s, 

 overlapping to the left in bud. Corona of 5 lobes arising from the 

 staminal-column opposite the anthers, dorsally flattened, never compli- 

 cate, but occasionally with slightly infolded margins, often produced at 

 the apex into a subulate or horn-like point, and furnished on the inner 

 face with 2 keels and usually with one or two teeth, horns or tongue- 

 shaped processes, or rarely without keel, tooth or horn on the face. 

 Staminal-column arising from the base of the corolla. Anthers erect, 

 terminated by membranous appendages, which are inflexed over the 

 apex of the style or erect. Follicles smooth or echinate. Seeds crowned 

 with a tuft of hairs. — Perennial herbs with milky juice. Rootstock 

 usually tuberous. Stem solitary or two or more from a tuber, simple, 

 or variously branched. Leaves opposite or whorled, often linear. 

 Flowers in sessile or pedunculate umbels, most of which are lateral 

 between the bases of the leaves, and one or two terminal. 



Species numerous, found also in Madagascar and in South Africa. It is not 

 possible to draw any rigid line between the genera ISchizoglossum and Xysmalobium 

 in the case of those species of Schizoglossum that are witliout the axillary tooth, 

 born, keels or process on the inner face of the coronal-lobes ; the only difference 

 appears to be that the coronal-lobes are more flattened and much less fles-hy than tlu-y 

 are in Xysmalobium, but in most ciises the 2 keels are present on the inner face of 

 the coronal-lobes, which, taken together with the usually much thinner texture of the 

 lobes, at once distinguishes this genus from Xi/smalohium. 



^Leaves (except sometimes in 14. S. virLdulum) less than 

 \ in. broad, filiform, linear or linear-lanceolate. 

 Corolla-lobes connate at the apex . . . . 1. S. connntum. 



Corolla-lobes free. 



Coronal-lobes much shorter than the staminal- 

 column ....... 20. 5. Welwilschii. 



Coronal-lobes as long as or longer than the staminal- 

 column 

 Corolla-lobes with long woolly ^hairs on their 

 margins and apical part, and a short pubes- 

 cence on their middle part within. 



Pedicels 4-6 lin. long 2. S. abi/ssinicum. 



■If lin. long. 



