370 Lxxxv. ASCLEPIADE.E (brown). [Schizoglossum. 



20. S. Grantii, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 109, t. 74. 

 Stem 2 ft. or more high, simple, moderately stout, shortly hairy. 

 Leaves spreading; petiole \\-2 lin.long; blade l|-^2 i"- ^^"g' f-^i i"- 

 broad, elongate-ovate, acute or subacute, cordate or subcordate at the 

 base, shortly and rather harshly hairy on both sides. Umbels several, 

 lateral at the nodes, pedunculate, 7-10-flowered ; peduncles J-1 in. 

 long, shortly hairy ; pedicels 4-G lin. long, shortly hairy. Sepals ?)h 

 lin. long, 1 J-IJ lin. broad, shortly hairy and ciliate. Corolla about J 

 in. ill diam., white; lobes campanulately spreading, 4 lin. long, 2] lin. 

 broad, ovate-oblong, pubescent on the back. Coronal-lobes arising 

 from the base of the staminal-column and overtopping it by half their 

 length, ?^l lin. long, 1| lin. broad, dorsally flattened, oblong or cuneate- 

 oblong, obtuse or slightly and irregularly crenately toothed at the apex, 

 with '2 wing-like keels or flaps on the inner face, infolded so that their 

 edges meet, reaching to rather more than half-way up, broadest at their 

 obtuse apices. Staminal-column IJ-lf lin. long; anther-appendages 

 ovate, acute, their tips inflexed over the margin of the crater-like apex 

 of the style, much below which the pollen-carriers are seated.— K. 

 Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 124 ; in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 321 ; and 

 in Engl, k, Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 233. Gomphocarpus Grantii, 

 Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, 2G9. Asclepias Grantii, Schlecliter in 

 Journ. Bot, 1895, 335. 



IMCozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Karagwe ; on hills, SpeJce <^ Grant, 

 216 ! Sluhlmann, 1652, 1659a, and Karatschonjo, Fischer, 390 (ex Schumann). 



30. S. eximium, N. E. Br. Stem probably tall, moderately stout, 

 villous. Leaves spreading; petiole 1-2 lin. long; blade lf-2J in. long, 

 |-1J in. broad, oblong-ovate, acute, cordate at the base, both sides 

 somewhat harshly villous, the hairs being usually shorter and denser 

 along the margins. Umbels several, lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 

 ()-10-flowered ; peduncles 1-2^ in. long, villous; bracts none, or very 

 caducous ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long, villous. Sepals 4-5 lin. long, 

 2i--3 lin. broad, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, acute or subcuspi- 

 date-acuminate, villous on the back. Corolla 5-lobed nearly to the 

 base, white; lobes campanulately spreading, 7-8 lin. long, 3-3-J lin. 

 broad, oblong, obtuse and minutely emarginate at the apex, glabrous 

 on both sides, not ciliate. Coronal-lobes arising at the apex of the 

 staminal-column and twice as long, violet-purple or dark purple- 

 brown, ascending or erect, 5 lin. long, lj-l| lin. broad, pandu rate- 

 lanceolate or pandurate-oblong, slightly constricted below the middle 

 and again at the base, obtuse, subacute or abruptly and obtusely 

 cuspidate at the apex, bearing on the face slightly below the middle 

 a fleshy erect acute or slightly bilobulate tongue-shaped process 1 lin. 

 long, channelled in the lower part from its margins being infolded 

 and decurrent as two diverging keels to near the base of the lobe. 

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

 their tips abruptly inflexed over the rim of the crater- like apex of 

 the style; anther-wings 1 J lin. long, narrowly triangular, projecting; 



