356 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE.E (browx). [Schizoglossum. 



Apex of the style dilated, pentagonal, 



crater-like channelled at each iingle. 33. S. scyphosligma. 

 Coronal-lobes without keels or other appen- 

 dages on the inner face. 

 Coronal-lobes spathulate, acute . . . 25. S. dolichoglossum. 



Coronal-lobes cuneate-oblong, irregularly 

 3-4-toothed or subtruncate at the 

 apex. ...... 24. ^S*. sjjnrinyii. 



1. S. connatuxn, iV^ E. Br. in Keio Bulletin, 1895, 69. Stem 

 solitary (?) simple, lJ-2 ft. high, slender, softly pubescent. Leaves 

 erect, subsessile, 1J-2J in. long, J-1 lin. broad, linear, acute, with revo- 

 lute margins, pubescent. Umbels 6-8, lateral at the nodes along the upper 

 part of the stem, sessile, 6-8-flowered ; pedicels lJ-2Jlin. long, slender 

 pubescent. Sepals 1-lJ lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. 

 Corolla 5-lobed almost to the base ; lobes 3 lin. long, |-1 lin. broad at 

 the base, linear- lanceolate-attenuate, incurved-erect, connate at their 

 tips, with revoliite-replicate margins, pubescent outside, minutely 

 puberulous within^ apparently greenish-yellow. Coronal-lobes f lin. 

 long and about the same in breadth, equalling the staminal-column in 

 length, subquadrate, truncate and somewhat indistinctly subdenticulate 

 at the top, with the apical angles produced on each side into a short 

 spreading tooth, also having two keels and a minute tooth below the 

 apex on the inner face, a transverse fleshy ridge at their base on the 

 back, glabrous. Staminal-column | lin. long ; anther-appendages 

 nearly circular, inflexed over the truncate and minutely papillose apex 

 of the style.— K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 425, and in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxviii. 455. 



IWozaxnb. Bist. German East Africa : Uhebe ; Uchnngwe Mountain, at the 

 Kuaha River near Succa, 5500 ft., Goetze, 644. British Central Africa : Urungu; 

 Fwambo, Carson, 17 ! 



2. S. abyssinicum, K. Schum. in Engl, cb Prantl^ Pfianzenfam. 

 iv. ii. 233. Stem 4-5 ft. high, rather slender, sparingly branched, 

 pubescent. Leaves lJ-3 lin. long, \-\ lin. broad, linear-filiform, acute^ 

 erect, very sparsely and minutely pubescent, margins strongly revolute. 

 Umbels numerous, lateral, sessile, 15-20-flowered ; bracts lJ-2 lin. long, 

 subulate, pubescent ; pedicels 4-6 lin. long, slender, pubescent. Sepals 

 \ lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent. Corolla 3 lin. diam. ; 

 lobes 1-1 1^ lin. long, campanulately spreading, narrowly oblong, acute, 

 repUcate, subtomentose on both sides, with acute hairs and with a tuft 

 of long white hairs at the apex. Coronal-lobes arising \ lin. above the 

 base of the staminal-column, | lin. long, subquadrate, abruptly contracted 

 into an acuminate point curved over the tips of the anthers with two 

 keels on the face decurrent from the point, each having a minute auricle 

 or pocket on the outer side. — Lagarinthus abyssinicus, Hochst. ex Benth. 

 in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 753. 



irile ]tand. Abyssinia : Sana : mountains near Docbli, Schimper, 1633 ! 

 Readily distinguished from S. ajigustissimiim, K. Schum,, and S. Whytei by its 

 longer pedicels, and by the body of the coronal-lobe being produced into an acute 



