428 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). | Fockea. 
1. F. multiflora, A. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 145. Stems 
not manifestly twining, rather stout, sparsely leafy or leafless during 
flowering, pubescent on the young parts; bark brown. Leaves densely 
tomentose on both sides; petiole 3-44 lin. long; blade 3-2 in. long, 
3-3 in. broad, ovate, acute, truncate or subcordate at the base. Cymes 
‘corymb-like, many-flowered, axillary ; peduncles 4—} in. long; pedicels 
43~7 lin. long, subtomentose. Sepals 14 lin. long, pubescent. Corolla 
glabrous on both sides or most minutely papillate (not pubescent) within ; 
tube ? lin. long; lobes 3} lin. long, rotate, oblong, subacute, revolute 
along the margins. Corona 20-toothed, besides the teeth within; tube 
1 lin. long; the 5 longer teeth 14-14 lin. long, spirally coiled at the tips, 
each alternating with a group of 3 shorter recurved teeth 4—4 lin. long ; 
teeth within the tube 5, filiform, 3-1 lin. long, with or without a very 
short or rudimentary tooth at about their middle on the dorsal side, 
adnate nearly to the top of the tube, forming 5 keels on the lower part 
of the latter. Anther-appendages large, inflated-oblong. Style with 
2 rounded knobs at its apex. K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 326, 
and in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam, iv. ii. 294, fig. 90, P-U, and 296. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uzinja; near the French Mission at 
Usambiro, Stuhlmann, 848! 
In this species and in F. Schinzii, N. E. Br., the inner or lower coronal teeth 
‘within the tube are longer than those next above, which are adnate to them for the 
-greater part of their length. 
2. F. Schinzii, V. £. Br. in Kew Builetin, 1895, 259. Stem 
twining, rather stout, 1-1 in. thick, with a brown bark and small 
scattered tubercles at the lenticels, shrivelling in drying, minutely and 
densely pubescent or subtomentose on the young shoots, becoming 
glabrous, leafless at the time of flowering. Undeveloped leaves accom- 
panying the flowers 24~3 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, oblong, obtuse, 
densely tomentose; midrib very prominent beneath; petioles 1-13 lin. 
long ; scars of the fallen leaves very large. Cymes corymb-like, axillary, 
or terminal on very short lateral shoots or tubercles, rather dense and 
compact or shortly panicled, many-flowered, pedunculate ; the whole 
inflorescence 1-3 in. long, hoary-tomentose on all parts except the 
corolla; pedicels 2-5 lin. long. Sepals 1-1} lin. long, ovate, acute. 
Corolla 6-7 lin. in diam.; tube 1 Ln. long; lobes 34-4 lin. long, 
narrowly oblong, obtuse, with revolute margins, glabrous on the back, 
finely pubescent all over the inner surface. Corona 20-toothed besides 
the teeth within; tube 1 lin. long; 5 principal teeth 3—} lin. long, 
erect, not spirally coiled at the tips, each alternating with a group of 3 
shorter recurved teeth 1-1 lin. long; teeth within the tube in 5 super 
posed pairs adnate nearly to the top of the tube and to each other, 
forming 5 prominent keels, the outer or upper tooth of each pair 7: 
lin. long, inner or lower tooth 4-3 lin. long. Anther-appendages about 
as long as the corona-tube, erect, inflated-ovate. Style not exceeding 
the anther-cells; apical part terete, subentire or minutely 2—5-lobulate 
at the apex. Follicles 8-9 in. long, 1 in. thick, lanceolate-fusiform, 
acuminate into a beak, smooth, glabrous, with a keel down each side. 
