36G Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE.E (brown). [Schizoglossum. 



coronal-lobes are those of a typical Schizoglossum reduced, their union at the base 

 and shortness are of no generic importance. On account of the dorsal flattening of 

 the coronal-lobes 1 place the plant under Schizoglossum. 



21. S. Carsoni, A". U. Br. Stems simple, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous, 

 with one piiberulous line. Leaves in 4-8 distant pairs, widely spread- 

 ing, the upper incurved through the arc of a semicircle, sessile or 

 subsessile, 8-G in. long, 1-1 J lin. broad, linear, acute, narrowed at the 

 base, with flat margins, glabrous. Umbels lateral and terminal, pedun- 

 culate, 3-G-flowered ; peduncles and pedicels of equal length, 4-6 lin. 

 long, both pubescent down the inner side ; bracts 1 lin. long, subulate, 

 deciduous. Sepals 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla 

 10-11 lin. in diam., campanulate, 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes 5-0 

 lin. long, 3-4 lin. broad, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, densely 

 speckled and stained down the central area, with dark purple- brown on 

 an ochreous ground. Coronal-lobes arising J-1 lin. above the base of 

 the staminal-column and overtopping it by J of their length, 2^-2^ lin. 

 long, 1-lJ lin. broad, erect, oblong, rather thin and flat, with incurved 

 margins and a bluntly pointed denticulate or bidentate apex incurved 

 over the anthers, neither keeled nor toothed on the face, apparently 

 yellowish or whitish. Staminal-column 2-2J lin. long ; anther-append- 

 ages rather large, broadly ovate, obtuse, inflexed over the top of the 

 staminal-column. Follicles (immature) 3 in. or more long, J in. thick 

 at the middle, fusiform, tapering into an acute beak. — Asclepias masho- 

 neiisis, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 356. Xysmalohium Carsoni, 

 N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 250. 



nf ozaxnb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Fife Station on the 

 Tanganyika Plateau, Carson! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft, Whyte ! Mount 

 Mlanje, 4500 ft., Furves, 87 ! Rhodesia : between Umtali and Salisbury, Jlon. Mrs. 

 JEvelyn Cecil, 48 ! Selukwe, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 48a ! Fort Salisbury, 

 J'oUiott -Darling. 



22. S. chlorojodinum, i\^. E. Br. Stem solitary, 6-10 in. hig^h, 

 simple, puberulous along one side. Leaves 2-4 in. long, 1-lf lin. 

 broad, linear, acute, tapering into a short petiole at the base, slightly 

 margined, glabrous on both sides. Umbels pedunculate, 2-4 to a stem; 

 peduncles J— | in. long, puberulous ; bracts small ; pedicels 3J lin. long 

 in the specimen seen (6-7 lin. ex Schuman7i), puberulous down one side. 

 Sepals spreading, 2J lin. long in the specimen seen (J in. long ex Schu- 

 mann)^ \ lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla cam- 

 panulate, very deeply lobed, yellowish-green, tipped with purplish- 

 brown, glabrous ; lobes ascending, recurved at the tips, 6-7 lin. long in 

 the specimen seen (J in. ex Schumann), 4-4J lin. broad, elliptic-oblong, 

 minutely notched at the obtuse apex. Coronal-lobes arising 1 lin. above 

 the base of the staminal-column and much overtopping it, 3 lin. long, 

 1 lin. broad, erect, with the tips very much incurved and concealing the 

 staminal-column and style from view from above, dorsally flattened, thin, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, minutely denticulate or subentire at the apex. 



