Brachystelma. | LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEX (BROWN). 469 
panulate ; lobes 3 in. long, 2 lin. broad at the base, thence gradually 
tapering into very long linear or linear-filiform tails, ascending-spread- 
ing. Outer corona arising from the base of the staminal-column, about 
1 lin. long, cup-shaped, 10-toothed, blackish-purple ; teeth about } lin. 
long and broad, deltoid-oblong, very obtuse, furnished with a tuft of 
minute deflexed hairs at the apex on the inner face; inner coronal-lobes 
4 lin. long, } lin. broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, incumbent on the backs 
of the anthers, which they completely cover but do not exceed. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Uganda Protectorate; Nandi district, at 
Fort Ternan, Johnston ! 
4, B. phyteumoides, X. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 149. 
Stems several from a thick rhizome (or tuber ?), slender, sparingly 
branched, about 4 in. high, sparsely puberulous in the upper part. 
Leaves erect, 14-24 in. long, $—2} lin. broad, linear, acuminate, revo- 
lute along the margins, glabrous, with a few minute hairs on the midrib 
beneath. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in a terminal many-flowered 
umbel placed between a pair of leaves ; bracts subulate, sparsely puberu- 
lous, with solitary glands between them; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, 
puberulous. Sepals 1-1} lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, glabrous. 
Corolla-tube short, campanulate, about 14 lin. long, 14 lin. broad; lobes 
3 in. long, spreading, slender, almost filiform from a deltoid-ovate base, 
with revolute margins, glabrous within, sparsely puberulous outside, dark 
purple-brown. Corona included within the corolla-tube, glabrous ; outer 
coronal-lobes 4 lin. long, bifid; inner coronal-lobes scarcely } lin. long, 
linear, obtuse, incumbent on the back of the anthers and not exceeding 
them.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 268. 
Wile Land. Jur: near Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, sér. iii. 37! 
B. euphorbioides, K. Schum. ex Durand & Jackson, Index Kewensis Suppl. i. 
62, is manifestly an error for B, phyteumoides, as the name B. euphorbioides does 
not occur at the place cited for it, nor have I found it elsewhere. 
5. B. Bingeri, A. Chevalier in Rev. Cult. Colon. viii. 67, with fig. 
Tuber variable in form, often somewhat globose or oblong, 14-3} in. in 
diam. Stem slightly branching at the base, 2-4 in. high. Leaves in 
3-5 pairs to each branch, shortly petiolate, 1-2} in. long, }—1 in. broad, 
varying from broadly elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, acute to very 
obtuse, cuneate at the base, shortly puberulous above, glabrous or with 
some hairs on the midrib beneath. Flowers axillary, in a 3—4-flowered 
cymule or solitary ; bracts about ? lin. long, ovate, acute, rusty-puberu- 
lous ; pedicels 3-10 lin. long, slender, rusty-puberulous. Sepals 1—1} 
lin. long, ovate, acute, rusty-puberulous. Corolla about 7 lin. in diam., 
reddish-white, puberulous outside; tube about 1 lin, long ; lobes about 
3 lin. long, deltoid-ovate, subacute. Outer corona cup-shaped, furnished 
with 5 exterior filiform erect appendages equalling or longer than the 
corolla-lobes ; inner coronal-lobes lanceolate, pointed, half as long as 
the outer corona. Fruit unknown.—N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1901, 
MxIx, 170: 
