Schizoglossum.] lxxxv. AscLEPiADEit: (brown). p,67 



narrowly incurved along the margins, j^ellowish-white. Staminal- 

 column 2f lin. long, contracted below the anthers; anther-appendages 



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



Gomphocarjyus chlorojodina, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. MH3. 



XMEozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Unyika ; Mpesu Mountain, in 

 Umalila district, 6500 ft., Ooetze, 1360 !. 



This is so much like S. Carsoni, N. E. Hr., except in the colour of its Howers, 

 that I am very doubtful if it be anything more than a colour variety of that si)ec-ie8, 

 it appears, however, to be a dwarfer plant according to description, for I have only 

 seen a leaf and 3 flowers of it. 



23. S. lividiflorum, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 454. Stem 

 slender, terete, glabrous, 6-8 in. high. Leaves sessile, 1 J-f) in. long, 

 J-2 lin. broad, linear, attenuate-acuminate, narrowed towards the base 

 where, at least, they are complicate or convex, subcoriaceous. Umbels 

 terminal, pedunculate, 3-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; peduncle 

 1-1| in. long, puberulous; pedicels 4-G lin. long, puberulous. Sepals 

 2-2^ lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla large, rotate, o-lobed 

 nearly to the base, yellowish-green, suffused with violet ; lobes 8-J) lin. 

 long, oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Coronal-lobes overtopping the staminal- 

 column, oblong, 3-toothed at the apex, and with a marginal incurved 

 tooth near the base. Anther -appendages |-1 lin. long. Style apex 

 depressed at the centre. 



Mozamb. I>ist. German East Africa: Uhehe; on tlie Matanana Plateau, 

 5900 ft., Goetze, 741. 



I have not seen this plant. Is it distinct from S. Carsoni, X. E. Br. ? 



24. S. spurium, X. E. Br. Stems 2-4 ft. high, stout, simple, 

 pubescent with short spreading hairs, as are also both sides of the 

 leaves, the peduncles, bracts, pedicels and calyx. Leaves somewhat 

 spreading; petiole 2-4 lin. long; blade 2-3J in. long, 1-H in. broad, 

 elongate-ovate, subobtuse, rounded to subcordate at the base. Umbels 

 few, lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 5-6-fiowered ; peduncles IJ-H 

 in. long; bracts 3-3| lin. long, subulate.; pedicels 1)-10 lin. long. 

 Sepals 3-3J lin. long, l|-2 lin. broad, ovate, acute, pubescent, ciliate. 

 Corolla about 1 in. in diam., campanulate ; lobes 8-0 lin. long, 3^-4 

 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subacute, pubescent on the back. Coronal- 

 lobes arising from the base of the staminal-coluinn and twice as long, 

 erect, J in. long, 2|-3 lin. broad at the apex, flat, cuneately oblong, 

 slightly keeled down the back, irregularly 3-4-toothed or subtruncjite 

 at the dilated apex, the middle tooth usually mucroniform. Anther- 

 appendages ovate, subobtuse, membranous, inflexed over the apex of 

 the style. — Xysmalobium spuriuni, N. E. 13r. in Kew Bulletin, \x\Ki, 

 251. 



Mozamb. Bist. British Central Afr'.ca : Nyasdand; Shire Hi^rhlands mro, 

 Buchanan, 451 ! 



25. S. dolichoglossum, A\ E. Br, Stems up to 3 ft. high, erect, 

 simple, softly tomentose. Leaves shoitly petiolate ; petiole 2j 4 lin. 



