Schizoglossum.] lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 361 



keeled down the back, with 2 slight keels on the face, which are excur- 

 rent into an erect subulate process f-1 lin. long, glabrous. Staminal- 

 column I lin. long; anthers subrectangular, erect, their appendages 

 about J lin. long, broadly ovate, subacute, inflexed over the margin of 

 the truncate style-apex. 



Mozamh. Dlst. Rhodesia: near Gwelo, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 131! 

 Salisbury, Rand^ 190 ! 



11. S. shirense, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1805, 25:1 Stems 

 2-3 ft. high, slender, simple. or rarely branched, bifariously pubescent. 

 Leaves subsessile or on petioles J-1 lin. long, erect, H-8 in. long, \-2 

 lin. broad, linear, acute, minutely pubescent, becoming glabrate \vith 

 age, revolute along the margins. Umbels lateral, sessile, :3-H-flowered ; 

 pedicels 1-2 lin. long, pubescent. Sepals 1 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 

 pubescent. Corolla rotate ; lobes 2| lin. long, j lin. broad, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, more or less reflexed, glabrous on the back, pubescent 

 all over on the face, purple-brown. Coronal-lobes arising at the base of 

 the staminal-column, purple-brown ; basal part subquadrate, J lin. long, 

 1 lin. broad, with two keels on the face, 3-toothed at the apex ; lateral 

 teeth very short ; middle tooth prolonged into an erect recurving horn 

 1| hn. long, with a similar horn of about the same length arising at its 

 base in front of it. 



nKozaxub. Blst. Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; Sbupaiiga, Kirk ! 

 Brit sh Central Africa : Nyasaland : Sbire Valley, Kirk ! Waller ! 



Root bitter, used medicinally by tbe natives, as a stomachic and aphrodisiac {Kirk). 



12. S. Baumiiy Schlechter MSS. Stem about 2 ft. high, solitary, 

 simple, slender, J-4 lin. thick at the base, puberulous down one side on 

 the flowering part, glabrous below. Leaves in several pairs, ascending 

 or erect, f-lf in. long, J-1 J lin. broad, filiform, acute, revolute along the 

 margins, glabrous. Umbels 5-8 to a stem, sessile, lateral at the nodes, 

 5-8-flowered ; pedicels 1 J lin. long, lengthening in fruit, puberulous. 

 Sepals 1 lin. long, ^ lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acute, thinly adpressed, 

 pubescent on the back. Corolla rotate, lobed almost to the base, appa- 

 rently whitish or yellowish ; lobes lf-2 lin. long, J-1 lin. broad, lanceo- 

 late, acute, thin, slightly undulated along the margins, bearded at the 

 tips on the inner face with a few stiff erect hairs and with a few ad- 

 pressed hairs on the back, otherwise glabrous. Coronal-lobes arising 

 at the base of the staminal-column and much overtopping it, 1-1 i lin. 

 long including the horn, f lin. broad, subquadrate, truncate, with a 

 curved subulate simple or irregularly trifid horn arising near the top on 

 the inner face, from the base of which are decurrent the usual pair of 

 keels, but they are very faint in the dried state. Staminal-column \ 

 lin. long. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola: Amboella; near Kavnng.i on tlic Hiver Kubango, 

 3600 ft., Baum, 413 ! 



13. S. fuscopurpureum, Schlechter d- Rendle in Jouni. Bot. 

 1896, 98. Rootstock of 1 or more fleshy fusiform or small airrot-like 



