Schizoglossum.'] lxxxv. asclepiade.« (brown). 359 



cent. Sepals 1 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent. Corolla 

 lobed nearly to the base, rotate, al^out '2h lin. in diam., thinly pubes- 

 cent outside, densely pilose-pubescent or almost woolly with white hairs 

 all over within ; lobes about i|: lin. long, '^ lin. broad, ovate or oblong- 

 ovate, subacute. Coronal-lobes arising at the base of the staminal-column 

 and slightly exceeding it, about h lin. high and § lin. broad, dorsally 

 flattened, transversely subrectangular, truncate and depressed at the 

 top, with an acuminate point subhorizontally inflexed over the tips of 

 the anthers, shortly 2-keeled on the inner face. Staminal-column 

 scarcely J lin. high. Follicles 3-3J in. long, tapering into a 

 beak, minutely pubescent. Seeds about 2}, lin. long, oblong-ovoid, 

 rugose. 



IMCozamb Bist. Rhodesia : Buluwayo, Rand, 195 ! 



In tlie original description the coronal-lobes are stated to be " minutely 

 2-toothed within," these teeth I recognise :is the 2 keels which are present in most 

 species of this genus and have so described tliem above. 



7. S. EUiotii, Schlechter inJourn. Bot. 1805, 305. Stem \},-'2 ft. 

 high, slender, slightly branched, minutely downy along two broad lines. 

 Leaves ascending, |-1 J in. long, \-h lin. broad, linear-filiform, acute, 

 strongly revolute along the margins, thinly pubescent. Umbels several, 

 lateral at the nodes, sessile, several-flowered; pedicels li-2 lin. long, 

 puberulous. Sepals |-1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, thinly pubescent. 

 Corolla 2-2^ lin. in diam.; lobes lJ-1^ lin. long, f lin. broad, cam panu- 

 lately spreading (?), oblong, obtuse and minutely notched at the apex, 

 thinly pubescent on the back, minutely downy on the inner face, more 

 especially at the margins and tips. Coronal-lobes f lin. long, arising 

 slightly above the base of the staminal-column, erect, fleshy, dilated into 

 a rounded lobule on each side at the base, and there about f lin. broad, 

 linear-oblong and scarcely \ lin. broad in the upper half, convex on the 

 back, flat, with 2 parallel keels on the inner face, truncate at the apex, 

 from the inner margin of which a small thin, subquadrate or ovate, 

 bifid or acute appendage is horizontally produced over the backs of the 

 anther-appendages. Staminal-column J lin. long ; anthers erect, sub- 

 quadrate, their appendages broad transversely, very short, obtusely 

 rounded, inflexed over the rim of the truncate apex of the style, which 

 is marked with a depressed ring.— .S'. dehile, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 

 1895, 305. 



Wile land. Uganda: Buddn, Scott-Elliof, 7-471! and without locality or 

 number, Scott-Elliot ! 



I have examined the type specimens of S. EUiotii a,ul ^. dehile and ^n^i the 

 coronal-lobes alike in both, except that in one the appendage is more distinctly bihd, 

 but the Kew material demonstrates that this is a variable character. 



8. S. erubescens, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 306. Stem 

 erect, U-2i ft. high, J-1 lin. thick, puberulous Leaves erect or 

 ascending, 1-21 in. long, l-l lin. broad, linear, with strongly revolute 

 margins, acute,>uberulous or minutely scaberulous. Umbels seyera , 

 lateral, sessile, 3-5-flowered ; pedicels i-1 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals 



