472 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Brachystelma. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Kikuyu region, near the foot of Mount 
Kenia, 5200-6500 ft., Hohnel, 29. 
11. B. ellipticum, 4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 49. Tuber 
depressed. Stems about 3-4 in. high, branched, scarcely pulverulent- 
puberulous. Leaves 5—7 lin. long, 14-24 lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate 
or elliptic-oblong, acute, narrowed at the base into a short petiole, 
glabrous. Flowers unknown. Fruiting pedicels solitary at the nodes, 
about 3 lin. long. Sepals 24-3 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate. 
Follicles about 10-11 lin. long, 4 lin. thick, ovoid-lanceolate, tapering 
at the apex, glabrous.—Walp. Ann. iii. 68; K. Schum. in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 268. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia : Tacazze River, Quartin Dillon. 
I describe this partly from a drawing of a portion of Richard’s type which is now 
in the herbarium of M. Drake del Castillo. This plant may possibly prove to be @ 
species of Raphionacme. 
47. TENARIS, E. Meyer; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 775. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes 5, linear or linear- 
spathulate, spreading or ascending, replicate-valvate in bud. Corona 
small, double, arising from the staminal-column above its base; outer 
corona of 5 concave, more or less spreading lobes, alternating with the 
anthers ; inner corona of 5 linear or subulate lobes, incumbent on the 
back of the anthers and sometimes produced beyond them. Staminal- 
column arising from the base of the corolla-tube; anthers incurved- 
erect or incumbent on the apex of the style, with or without a very 
short appendage. Pollen-masses minute, subascending or subhorizontal, 
solitary in each anther-cell, turgid, with a pellucid margin near the 
apex, attached in pairs by very short caudicles to the very minute 
pollen-carriers. Style obtuse at the apex. Follicles slender, smooth, 
erect. Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs.—Perennial herbs with 
tuberous rootstock. Stems slender, erect, usually leafless in the 
flowering part. Leaves opposite, linear. Inflorescence terminal, sub- 
racemose or paniculate; flowers usually in pairs, pedicellate. 
Species 5, two being South African. 
There is little beyond habit to distinguish this genus from Brachystelma. The 
estivation is wrongly described in the Genera Plantarum, and the minute teeth 
described and figured by H arvey, and described by myself as existing on the face of 
the outer coronal-lobes, do not belong to the corona at all, but are anther-wings, 
which, viewed from above, appear to be on the face of the coronal-lobes at their 
base, hence the misconception. 
Leaves very minute, not more than 1 lin. long, the 
plant appearing leafless, 
Corolla-lobes fringed with long purple hairs . <ul. 
Covolla-lobes not fringed with hairs. : <2. 
Leaves 1--3 in. long, linear, in a few distant pairs; 53; 
T. somalensis. 
T. subaphylla. 
T. rostrata. 
