Pergularia. LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE® (BROWN). 427° 
g 
and sometimes twisted, shortly villous or bearded on their face, twisted 
to the right in bud. Coronal-lobes adnate for } of their length to the 
staminal-column at the base, expanded above into an elliptic-lanccolate, 
orbicular-obovate or obovate-oblong blade 1-1# lin. long, obtuse, sub- 
truncate and subdenticulate or subacute at the apex, with a linear or 
lanceolate-attenuate acute process 1 lin. long, arising at or a little above 
the middle of their inner face and connivent over the staminal-column. 
Anther-appendages {—1 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, connivent. 
Style much shorter than the anther-appendages, apical part ovoid, 
obtuse.—P. sanguinolenta, Britten in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser, 2, Bot. iv. 
29, and K. Schum. in Engl]. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 326, not of Lindley. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Kafogo, Scott-Elliot, 5489! woods about 
Bufodeya, Scott-Elliot, 5498! 5553! Lagos: interior, Rowland! jaye, Barter,. 
3332! Nizer Territory: Nupe, Barter! Old Calabar, Thomson, 113! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba, Whyte ! 
Also in Natal. 
41. FOCKEA, Endl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 773. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube very short; lobes spreading, over- 
lapping to the left or twisted in bud. Corona arising at the mouth of 
the corolla-tube at the insertion of the staminal-column and longer than 
it, tubular, toothed at the top and with teeth on the inner face of the 
tube, which are arranged in 2 distinct superposed series of 5, or the 
lower series dorsally adnate to the upper series so as to appear as one 
series of unequally bifid teeth, opposite to or alternating with the 
longer teeth of the tube, decurrent on the lower part of the tube as 5 
prominent keels or 5 pairs of keels. Staminal-column inserted in the 
throat or at the mouth of the corolla-tube ; anthers erect, triangular, 
their appendages very large, erect, membranous, inflated. Pollen- 
masses erect, solitary in each anther-cell, very flat and thin, sessile in 
pairs at the apex of the minute pollen-carriers. Style produced to 
about the level of the top of the anther-cells; terminal part terete or 
thickened aid somewhat 2-lobed at the apex. Follicles not echinate. 
Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs.—Perennials with large tuberous 
rootstocks and twining stems. Leaves opposite. Flowers in axillary 
clusters, cymes, or very short dense racemes. 
Species few, some of them natives of South Africa. 
This genus is very remarkable on account of the large inflated anther-appendages 
and the flat thin pollen-masses. It appears to form a connecting link between the 
tribes Secamonee and Marsdeniee. 
Flowers in corymb-like cymes; pedicels 2-7 lin. 
long. 
ate nbe glabrous within, subacute. 
Corolla-lobes finely pubescent within, obtuse . 
Flowers in axillary clusters or very shortly and densely 
spicate ; pedicels not more than 3 lin. leng. 
Corolla-lobes 3-33 lin. long . 3 : 
Corolla-lobes 5—7 lin. long 
. F. multiflora. 
. F. Schinzii. 
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. F. sessiliflora. 
. F. Lugardi. 
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