Tenaris. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 473 
1. T. somalensis, V. #. Br. Apparently a tall slender herb ; 
the unique specimen is 10 in. long, leafless, glabrous, and is evidently 
only the inflorescence, being marked to the base by the scars of fallen 
flowers, which are racemosely arranged in moderately distant pairs, 1 of 
each pair opening and falling away before the other expands. Bracts 
minute, acuminate; pedicels 4 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals 1-14 
lin. long, $ lin. broad at the base, gradually tapering to an acute apex, 
glabrous. Uorolla outside whitish ? spotted with purple-brown, glabrous ; 
inside dark purple or purple-brown on the lobes, marked with 2-3 
yellowish or whitish transverse bars at the base and densely fringed with 
long purple flattened fusiform hairs; tube 1 lin. long, campanulate or 
cup-shaped ; lobes suberect or slightly spreading, 5 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 
spathulate-oblanceolate, acute, with an apiculus 4 lin. long. Outer 
coronal-lobes bifid, glabrous ; inner coronal-lobes ligulate, obtuse, nearly 
twice as long as the outer coronal-lobes, glabrous.— Lasiostelma somalense, 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1899, 61. 
Wile Land. Somaliland, Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 
2. T. subaphylla, V. /. Br. Stems several to a plant, slender, 
slightly branched, nearly leafless, glabrous. Leaves minute, scarcely 
1 lin. long, sessile, subulate, acuminate, glabrous, adpressed to the stem. 
Raceme terminal, about 4 in. long, slender; bracts small, subfiliform ; 
flowers in pairs, pedicellate; pedicels 5-7 lin. long, very slender, 
glabrous. Sepals #-1} lin. long, triangular, acuminate. Corolla cam- 
panulate, probably purple-brown, quite glabrous; tube 1 lin. long ; lobes 
44 lin. long, subulate, acuminate, broadly recurved along the margins. 
Outer corona arising } lin. above the base of the staminal-column, 
urceolate, 10-toothed ; inner coronal-lobes } lin. long, subulate, about 
equalling the anthers. Follicles (immature) 43 lin. long, 1 lin. thick.— 
Brachystelma subaphyllum, K. Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 
vii. 40. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: ona dry plain near Mendah, Robecchi-Bricchetti, 
113. 
This species is stated to be easily distinguished by its minute leaves, which cause 
it to appear falsely leafless. 
3. T. rostrata, V. Z. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 39. Tuber 
1 in. in diam., depressed-globose. Stem 14-24 ft. high, simple, slender, 
glabrous. Leaves in 4-6 distant pairs, 1-3 in. long, }—-1} lin. broad, 
linear or linear-filiform, acute, glabrous, recurved-spreading. Inflores- 
cence terminal, racemose or paniculate, leafless; flowers in pairs or 1-4 
together at the ends of the branches of the panicle; bracts minute ; 
pedicels 2-34 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals {-1 lin. long, ovate or 
lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla rotate, }-1} in. in diam. ; lobes 4—7 
lin. long, 3-14 lin. broad, linear, or slightly dilated at the obtuse or 
subacute apex, whitish, densely covered with minute purple dots on the 
basal part, giving the flower a pinkish hue, especially when dried. 
Outer coronal-lobes about 4 lin. long, spreading, concave, ovate, bifid at 
the apex, yellowish ; inner coronal-lobes much exceeding the anthers, 
