362 Lxxxv. AscLEPiADE^ (brown). [Schizoglcssum. 



tubers. Stem about 1 ft. high, solitary, simple or with a branch in the 

 upper part, slender, puberulous down one side at least in the upper 

 part. Leaves in several pairs, ascending i-1 i in. long, linear-filiform, 

 thinly puberulous. Umbels G-8 to a stem, sessile, G-10-flowered ; 

 pedicels 1-1^- lin. long, filiform, puberulous. Sepals J lin. long, i-J 

 lin. broad, spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous. Corolla 

 about If lin. in diam., lobed nearly to the base, rotate or rotate-cam- 

 panulate, dark purple-brown, thinly pubescent outside, glabrous within ; 

 lobes |-1 lin. long, h lin. broad, oblong, acute. Coronal-lobes arising 

 at the base of the staminal-column and about as long as it, J lin. long 

 and nearly as broad, subquadrate, ^^-toothed at the apex ; lateral teeth 

 (at the angles) minute ; middle tooth J-1- lin. long, subacute, inliexed 

 over the backs of the anthers. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. G83. 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; scattered in ratlier dry, sandy, bushy 

 places near Huilla, Wehoitsch, 4tVll\ 



This has the habit of S. masaicum, N. E. 13r., but is dwarfer and more slender, 



14. S. viriduluxn, K. Schnm. in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 455. Stems 

 12-15 in. high, erect, straight, at first simple then branching from one 

 axil of the leaf-pairs, subtomentose. Leaves shortly petiolate, |-2 in. 

 long, 2-3J lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, retuse or very shortly 

 apiculate, somewhat narrowed towards the base, somewhat crisped on 

 th^ margin, subcoriaceous, glabrous on both sides; petiole 1-1 J lin. 

 long, slightly pilose on the margins. Umbels sessile, with the flowers 

 somewhat congested ; pedicels 4-5 lin. long, puberulous. Sepals 2 lin. 

 long, liijear-subulate, glabrous. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, 

 green, glabrous ; lobes about 2 lin. long, somewhat obliquely oblong. 

 Coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, about as long as the staminal-column, fleshy, 

 linear, triangularly enlarged at the apex, scarcely appendiculate below. 

 Anther-appendages cordate, obtuse. 



nXozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Ukami ; South Uluguru, on the water- 

 shed between the Mgeta and Mbakana Rivers, Goetze, 336. 



Said to be near S. tridentatum, K. Schum., a name I am unable to find 

 published, probably S. tridentatum, Schlechter, was intended. 



1 5. S. barbatum, Britten d- Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot, 

 iv. 27. Stems several from a root, 6-12 in. high, minutely pubescent. 

 Leaves in about 4-5 pairs to a stem, 1-2 J in. long, |-2 lin. broad, 

 erect, sessile, linear, acute or subacute, more or less narrowed at the 

 base, glabrous, with the revolute margins and the midrib puberulous 

 or minutely scaberulous beneath. Umbels 2-6 to a stem, terminal 

 and lateral at the upper nodes, occasionally in pairs, sessile or pedun- 

 culate, 4-10-flowered; peduncles 0-3J lin. long, slender, minutely 

 pubescent ; bracts J-1 lin. long, filiform ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, minutely 

 pubescent. Sepals IJlin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, minutely pubes- 

 cent. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the base, rotate or moreor less reflexed ; 

 lobes l|-2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtuse, almost 

 glabrous on the back, puberulous on the face, purple-brown. Coronal- 

 lobes very variable, each consisting of a flattened subquadrate body 



