766 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). | Tylophora. 
Leaf-blade 2-14 in. long, puberulous beneath... (7) simiana. 
Corolla green or yellowish-green ; leaf-blade 14-4 
in. long, glabrous or pubescent on one or both 
sides , saa ; ... (8) syringefolia. 
Peduncle bearing 1 terminal umbel only ; bracts 
1-4 lin. long, very conspicuous, forming a kind 
of involucre ek as es ie ... (9) lycioides. 
1. T. Fleckii (N. E. Br.); a somewhat rigid erect branching 
shrublet; branches at first very thinly puberulous, becoming 
glabrous ; leaves (including the short petiole) 34-6 lin. long, 2-34 
lin. broad at the middle, oblong-elliptic or oblong, obtuse, tapering 
at the base; cymes lateral at the nodes, few-flowered, scarcely 
exceeding the leaves ; peduncles and pedicels about equal in length, 
very thinly puberulous; sepals 1 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, very 
thinly puberulous ; corolla subrotate, with oblong obtuse glabrous 
lobes, about twice as long as the sepals ; corona-lobes fleshy, ovate, 
subacute, entirely adnate to the staminal column, not extending 
above the base of the anther-cells ; anther-appendages subreniform, 
incurved upon the style-apex, which is 5-angular, produced at the 
angles, conical at the apex. T'ylophoropsis Fleckii, Schlechter in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. vii. 39. 
Western Recion ; Great Namaqualand ; Gansberg, Fleck, 431 (ex Schlechter). 
Gansberg is just within the Tropical region, but as the plant will probably be 
found to occur south of the Tropic of Capricorn, it is here included. 
2. T. inhambanenis (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxviii. 52) ; stem 
herbaceous, twining ; branches filiform, flexuose, puberulous, laxly 
leafy ; leaves spreading ; petiole 5-10 lin. long, pilose ; blade 23— 
3} in. long, 1-1? in. broad below the middle, ovate, acuminate, 
truncately rounded at the base, glabrous or subglabrous, thin in 
texture ; cymes subsessile or with a peduncle as long as the petiole ; 
pedicels up to 10 lin. long, filiform, glabrous ; sepals } lin. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely pilose ; corolla subrotate, 
deeply 5-lobed, 2 lin. long; lobes oblong, subacute, glabrous on the 
back, pilose on the inner face ; corona-lobes fleshy, ovate-oblong, 
somewhat obtuse, adnate to the staminal column at the lower half, 
incurved at the apex, shortly exceeding the base of the anthers, 
which are tipped with a rounded obtuse appendage ; style-apex 
depressed. 
creed Rearon : Portuguese East Africa ; near Machisugu, 100 ft., Schlechter, 
2116 ! 
3. T. anomala (N. E. Br.); stem twining, slender, “not milky ” 
(Gerrard), with a minute unifarious pubescence ; leaves herbaceous ; 
petiole 1-4 in. long; blade 14-3 in. long, 3-2} in, broad, ovate or 
ovate-oblong, acute to very obtuse or emarginate at the apiculate 
apex, usually cordate, occasionally rounded at the base, glabrous on 
both sides ; peduncles lateral at the nodes, }—} in. long, glabrous, 
