Schizoylossum.] lxxxv. asclepiade.*: (brown). 3Gl> 



broad, dorsally flattened, oblong, entire or obtusely toothed at the sub- 

 truncate apex, furnished on the inner face with 2 wing-like keels or 

 flaps infolded so that their edges meet, reaching to § of the way up oi- 

 beyond, broadest at the apex, which ends in a short obtuse tooth. 

 Staminal-column l^-l^ lin. long; anther-appendages ovate, acute, 

 their tips inflexed over the edge of the crater-like apex of the style, 

 much below which the pollen-carriers are seated. — K. Schum. in Encrl. 

 <fc Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iv. ii. 23o. Asclepias peth^rickiana, Schlechter 

 in Journ. Bot. 1895, 336. 



Nile Xiand. White Nile : Nyangara (Neancrar.i), Petherick ! Ug.ind:i : 

 Kavirondo, Samia, 4000 ft., /S'co^^-.E'^^io^, 7130 ! Buddu; on a dry plateau Scott- 

 Elliot, 74i7l 



28. S. simulans, JV. E.Br. Stem probably tall, moderately stout, 

 somewhat harshly villous, but not densely so. Leaves spreading ; 

 petiole 0-3 lin. long, stout, hairy; blade 2J-4 in. long, 7-10 lin. broa«(, 

 oblong, slightly tapering upwards, acute, base cordate or emarginate, 

 both sides clothed with short spreading hairs, more densely so belov% 

 slightly harsh to the touch. Umbels 2-7, lateral and terminal, pedun- 

 culate, 5-12-flowered ; peduncles J-1 in. long, moderately stout, 

 villous ; bracts 5-8 lin. long, §-1 J lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceo 

 late, acute, villous, ciliate, persistent ; pedicels 5-G lin. long, moderately 

 stout, villous. Sepals 5-5J lin. long, ^^-2 lin. broad, linear-oblong (a- 

 lanceolate, acute, villous on the back and at the apex within. Corolla 

 5-lobed almost to the base ; lobes campanulately spreading, 5-5i lin. 

 long, 21-2 J lin. broad, oblong, subacute and minutely emarginate at 

 the apex, thinly villous on the back, glabrous within, apparently white. 

 Coronal-lobes arising at the base of the staminal-column and equalling 

 or very slightly exceeding it, erect, 2J-2J lin. long, '2-2^ lin. broad at 

 the base, 1 J-1 J lin. broad at the apex, fleshy, pandurate ; basal part 

 with broadly rounded subauriculate sides ; apical part cuneately sub- 

 quadrate or transversely widened, subtruncate or obscurely trilobulate ; 

 inner face with a stout fleshy erect tooth, arising at the middle and not 

 nearly reaching to the apex, decurrent in two keels to its base. 

 Staminal-column 2J-2J lin. long ; anther-appendages ovate, acute, 

 inflexed over the rim of the crater-like apex of the style ; anther-wings 

 barely 1 lin. long, flattish or the margins slightly incurved, not at all 

 projecting, narrowly oblong ; pollen-carriers erect, seated below the 

 level of the rim of the style. Follicles solitary, erect, but at light 

 angles to the pedicels, 3-3 j in. long, about 1 in. in diam., lanceolate, 

 obtuse, 4-winged, rather coriaceous, glabrous. 



nXozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : N^asaland ; on the Nyika riatoau. 

 6000-7000 ft., Whyte, 108 ! 129 ! 



This plant, S. eximium, N. E. Br., S. di.sfinctum, N. E. Br„ are all very siinilMr 

 in general appearance, and may easily he confused. They have the general apj>onr- 

 ance of an Asclepias, and the dorsally flattened coronal-lolics of a Schizoglos.fuw, 

 whilst in havinof the pollen-carriers placed below the level of the apex of the st_\lo 

 they agree with the genus Margaretta, under which genr.s I originally placed >'. 

 distinctum. 



