360 Lxxxv. AscLEPiADE^ (brown). [Sckizoglossum. 



|-1^ lin. long, ^ lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, puberu- 

 lous. Corolla rotate, 3 lin. in diam., glabrous outside, pubescent inside, 

 apparently purple-brown ; lobes 1^-1^ lin. long, §-| lin. broad, oblong- 

 ovate, acute. Coronal-lobes arising from the base of the staminal- 

 column and equalling it in length, J lin. long, excluding the teeth, and 

 about the same in breadth, subquadrate, 2-keeled down the face, trun- 

 cate and excavated at the apex, with two opposite divergent subulate 

 teeth J-J lin. long, one inflexed over the anther-tips, the other hori- 

 zontally directed outwards, or in some specimens the dorsal tooth 

 wanting and the inner tooth more or less bifid, so that the lobe is 

 then subquadiate with an acute or bifid inflexed apical tooth and a sort 

 of pocket on the back. Staminal-column ^ lin. long ; anther-appendages 

 reniform or suborbicular, very obtuse, incumbent on the truncate apex 

 of the style. Follicles about 2J in. long, \ in. thick, erect, fusiform, 

 acute, puberulous, solitary in the only example seen. Seeds 2 J lin. long, 

 ]| lin. broad, ovate, flattened, somewhat concave on one side, margined, 

 rugose with radiating ridges, which are much reduced on the disk, dull 

 brown, crowned with a tuft of long white hairs. 



XMEozaznb. I>ist. British Centrnl Africa: Nyasaland ; Mount Mlanje, -Sco^^- 

 JSlliot, 8671 ! Mount Zomba and vicinity, 2500-3800 ft., Whyte ! 



9. S. filipeSy Schlechter in Enyl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 16. Stem 

 10-14 in. high, simple or slightly branched at the base, puberulous. 

 Leaves erect, linear or linear-filiform, acute, revolute along the margins, 

 thinly pilose. Umbels lateral, many-flowered ; pedicels filiform, unequal 

 in length, longer than the flowers, shortly pilose. Sepals 1 J lin. long, 

 lanceolate, acute, pilose. Corolla subrotate, greenish ; lobes 3^ lin. 

 long, narrowly ovate-oblong, obtuse, with revolute margins, outside 

 thinly pilose, puberulous within. Coronal-lobes longer than the 

 staminal-column, lanceolate, with the margins unequally toothed on 

 each side, furnished on the inner face with an appendage that is dilated 

 and lacerate-toothed at the apex. 



BXozamb. Dist. Transvaal : Klipdam, 4600 ft., Feb., Schlechter, 4491 ! 

 1 have included this plant, as the locality is so near to the Tropic of Capricorn 

 that it will almost certainly be found to occur within the tropic. 



10. S. gwelense, /V. E.Br. Stem erect, 9-12 in. high, slender, simple, 

 puberulous, with internodes about J in. long. Leaves opposite, erect or 

 ascending^ subsessile, 1^-2;^ in. long, f-lj lin. broad, linear, acute, 

 glabrous above, minutely scaberulous along the revolute margins, 

 puberulous on the midrib beneath. Umbels several, sessile at the nodes, 

 2-5-flowered; bracts minute, subulate; pedicels 1-1 i lin. long, puberu- 

 lous. Sepals 1 lin. long, | lin. broad, oblong, acute, spreading, puberu- 

 lous on the back. Corolla 3J-4 lin. in diam., subrotate, green ; lobes 

 If lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong, subacute, spreading, thinly puberulous 

 on the back, more densely puberulous within. Coronal-lobes arising at 

 the base of the staminal-column and very much longer than it, ^\-'^^ 

 lin. long, erect, broadly diamond-shaped, flat and f lin. broad at the 

 base, tapering into a long filiform point, incurved at the apex, faintly 



