364 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). [ScMzoglossum. 



1J-2J in. long, 1-2 lin. broad, linear, acute, more thinly pubescent 

 than the rest of the plant, nearly glabrous beneath. Umbels several, 

 lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, 7-10-flowered ; peduncles 5-6 lin. 

 long; pedicels l-l^ lin. long. Sepals I J lin. long, J-| lin. broad, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla 5-lobed almost to the base ; lobes erect 

 with recurving tips, 2 J lin. long, scarcely 1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, 

 concave in the lower part, somewhat thickened and very minutely 

 papillate-puberulous on the inner face of the recurved apical half, 

 elsewhere quite glabrous. Coronal-lobes arising from the base of the 

 staminal-column, erect, 2Jlin. long; basal third ^ lin. broad, spathulate- 

 subcordate, with the auricles inflexed and forming a minute tooth on 

 each side of the inner face, above them the lobe is transversely thickened 

 into a ridge ; upper J subulate. Staminal-column IJ-l J lin. long ; 

 anther-appendages half as long as the entire column, much exceeding 

 the style, J lin. broad, ovate, acuminate, connivent-erect, white. Apex 

 of style J lin. long, conical, minutely bilobed. 



nXozamb. Dist. Britisli Central Africa : Ngamilandj near Kwehe, Li( jar d, 

 82! 



This lias also been collected in the Orange River Colony. 



The produced, conical iipex of the style, surrounded by the long anther- 

 appendages, are well marked peculiarities of this species. 



18. S. alpestre, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xxx. 384. Stems 

 several from a thickened rootstock, 2-4 in. long, with two puberulous 

 lines. Leaves 1-2 in. long, \-l\ lin. broad, linear, acute, narrowed 

 into a very short petiole at the base, glabrous. Umbels 2-4 to a stem, 

 3-12-flowered; peduncles f-11 in. long, puberulous down one side; 

 bracts small, linear, or filiform ; pedicels 4-5 lin. long, puberulous. 

 Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous. Corolla very 

 deeply divided, apparently pale greenish or greenish-white with purplish 

 tips to the lobes on both sides, quite glabrous; lobes 2-2J lin. long, 

 1^-1 J lin. broad, elliptic-ovate, subacute. Coronal-lobes arising at the 

 base of the staminal-column and twice as long as it, 2 lin. long, radiately 

 ascending, apparently yellowish in the lower part, purple-brown above, 

 very stoutly subulate, gijadually tapering from the thick fleshy base 

 (which is I lin. broad and J lin. thick) to a very acute point, furnished 

 on the inner face J lin. above the base with a fleshy acute tooth, nearly 

 horizontally projecting over the top of the staminal-column and style. 

 Staminal-column J lin. long, not dilated at the base ; anther-appendages 

 broadly ovate, acute, inflexed over the truncate apex of the style. 



nXozamb. I>ist. German East Africa : on Yawuaege Mountain, in the Kinga 

 Range, 8200 ft., Goetze, 1234! 



The very stout, almo-st conical-subulate coronal lobes, readily distinguish this 

 from all the other species. 



19. S. angolense, Schlechter d: Rendle in Jouryi. Bot. 1896, 98. 

 Rootstock a small carrot-like tuber. Plant about 3 in. high, branched, 

 very leafy; branches 1-1 1 in. long, §-f lin. thick, with 1 or more 



