470 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Brachystelma- 
Upper Guinea. French Soudan: between the River Baule and the town of 
Sikaso, Binger. 
This plant is called “ Fikongo,” by the natives of the region of the Upper Niger, 
who eat its tubers, chiefly in the months of May and June, when their stores of 
millet and rice are used up. The measurements given above are partly taken from. 
the original description and partly from the figure which accompanies it. 
6. B. plocamoides, Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 112, t. 77, 
fiy. 1. ‘Tuber large and fleshy, like a turnip, tasting something 
like liquorice (Grant). Stem repeatedly trichotomously or dichoto- 
mously branched from the base, 8—9 in. high, glabrous. Leaves 2-3} 
in. long, 4-4 lin. broad, linear, shortly and abruptly uncinate-mucronu- 
late at the apex, glabrous. Flowers solitary, sublateral between the 
bases of the leaves; pedicels 6-7 lin. long, glabrous, occasionally 
bearing a linear bract at about their middle. Sepals 14-2 lin. long, 
glabrous. Corolla stellate-rotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes 9-10: 
lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad at their base, lanceolate-linear, acute, glabrous, 
dark purple (Grant). Outer corona 10-toothed; teeth in 5 contiguous 
pairs, #-1 lin. long, deltoid-acuminate, ascending, glabrous; inner 
coronal-lobes scarcely } lin. long, oblong, obtuse, incumbent on the 
backs of the anthers and shorter than them, dorsally adnate to the outer 
corona, glabrous.—K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 327, and in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 264, fig. 77, H, and 268. JB. sp., 
Thomson in Speke, Nile, Append. 640. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uyansi; in dry forest at Jiwa la 
Mkoa, in the Mgunda Mkali, 3700 ft., Speke & Grant ! 
7. B. Tavalla, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 459. Tuber 
globose. Stems about 9 in. high, subsimple, subtomentose above. 
Leaves sessile, }-1} in. long, 14-24 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
narrowed at the base, subtomentose on both sides. Flowers axillary, 
solitary or in pairs; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, subtomentose. Sepals 1} 
lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, tomentose. Corolla rotate, violet, 
green within, puberulous outside near the base, densely villous with 
long violet hairs within; tube 1} lin. long ; lobes 7 3 lin. long, linear, 
somewhat dilated at the base. Outer corona not described; inner 
coronal-lobes 3 lin. long, overtopping the anthers, truncate, toothed. 
Staminal-column 4 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Uhehe ; near Rugaro, Goetze, 541. 
8. B. limeare, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 49, t. 72. Tuber 
depressed-globose, about 2 in. in diam. Stems 3—4 in. high, branching 
at the base, pubescent. Leaves 14-21 in. long, 1-1} lin. broad, 
ascending, linear, acute, narrowed at the base, scarcely petiolate, 
glabrous. Flowers solitary or in pairs, sublateral at the nodes ; 
pedicels 1}-2 lin. long, slender, pubescent. Sepals about 1 lin. long, 
lanceolate, acute. Corolla-tube campanulate, about 2 lin. long ; lobes- 
6-7 lin. long, linear-attenuate, very acute. Coronal-lobes arising from 
the middle of the staminal-column, broadly obcordate, abruptly 
