Schizoglossum.] lxxxv. asclepiade.« (hrown). 371 



pollen-carriers erect, seated below the level of the rim of tlie style. — 

 Asclepias exiniia, Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1895, ojjy. 



Wile Iiand. Uganda : Kuwenzori ; Torn district at Virungo, Scotl-HUiot, 

 7627 ! 



Closely allied to S. simulans and S. disUnctum, N. K. Hr., which see. 



31. S. Goetzei, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 4.jr). Stems 

 erect, up to 3 ft. high, pubescent or tomentose. Leaves shortly petio- 

 late ; petiole IJ-^J lin. long, channelled above, puberulous ; blade 

 2J-4 in. long, J-l| in. broad, linear-oblong or ovate-oblong, acute, 

 cordate at the base, puberulous on both sides, scaberulous near the 

 margin, with 18-20 parallel lateral veins. Umbels lateral at the 

 nodes, pedunculate, many-flowered ; peduncle 1-1 J in. long, piibe.scent 

 or tomentose ; pedicels 4J-7 lin. long, tomentose. Sepals Ah lin. long, 

 ovate-oblong, acuminate, puberulous. Corolla rotate, r)-).obed nearly to 

 the base ; lobes 5^ lin. long, elliptic, acute, (I lin. long, white, suffused 

 with reddish at the tips. Coronal-lobes arising about | lin. above the 

 base of the staminal-column and overtopping it, 2 lin. long, ovate, 

 truncate at the apex, with a triangular appendage on the inner face. 

 Staminal-column 1| lin. long, stipitate. Apex of the style depressed. 

 Follicles 3i^-4J in. long, 2-2J- in. in diameter. 



Mozamb. I>lst< German East Africa: Uhehe ; Kipnndi Mountains, G2uO ft., 

 674; Iringa, near Gnmbird, 5200 /t., Goetze,lOQ. 



32. S. distinctum^ N. E. Br. All parts except the inside of the 

 flowers clothed with short spreading hairs. Leaves spreadin<j ; petiole 

 very short; blade 2-4 (or more) in. long, 5-9 (or more) lin. bi-oad, 

 narrowly oblong or lanceolate-oblong, •subobtuse, cordate at the ba^e, 

 subvillous- on both sides. Umbels lateral and terminal, pedunculate, 

 6-10-flowered ; peduncles 1-2 in. long; bracts 4-0 lin. long, .UA lin. 

 broad, linear, obtuse ; pedicels 6-8 lin. long. Sepals 3i-4 lin. long, 

 1-1-^ lin. broad, lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Corolla about 1 in. in 

 diam., 5-lobed nearly to the base, apparently white ; lobes campanu- 

 lately spreading, 5 lin. long, 2J-3 lin. broad, ovate-oblong, subobtuse. 

 Coronal-lobes arising close to the base of the staminal-column, and 

 twice as long, erect, 3 lin. long, flattened, dilated at the ba.^e into 

 an obtuse triangular auricle on each side, more or less const iicte<l at 

 the middle, then more or less widening out into a cuneate-oblong blade, 

 subtridentate or irregularly and obtusely toothed at the apex, with a 

 pair of contiguous collateral deltoid obtuse teeth on the face at the base 

 of the constriction. Staminal-column l|-2 lin. long; anther-appendages 

 erect, ovate-lanceolate, acute, undulated on the margins, about reaching 

 to the top of the style, which is rather stout, conical, with ."»-(; obtuse 

 contiguous obtuse lobules connivent over a cavity at the apex.— J/«r- 

 (jaretta distincta, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 255. 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Monntains east of Lake Nvasa, 

 Johnson ! 



