Tylophora. | ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). 767 
usually bearing 1, more rarely 2, umbel-like cymes of about 5-7 
flowers developing in succession; pedicels 3-4 lin. long, slender, 
glabrous; sepals about #? lin. long, ovate or lanceolate, acute, 
glabrous ; corolla about 2 lin. in diam., with the united saucer- 
shaped part about 32 lin. long and the ovate acute (ascending- 
spreading ?) lobes ? lin. long, 3 lin. broad, glabrous outside, puberu- 
lous within, dull white (Gerrard) ; corona-lobes arising at the base 
of and equalling the staminal column, 2 lin. long and nearly as 
broad, erect, broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, notched at the apex, 
nearly flat, with a stout keel (square in transverse section) down 
the middle of the inner face, by which they are attached to the 
% lin-long staminal column below the anthers, whose minute 
appendages are transverse and inflexed upon the margin of the 
depressed style-apex ; pollen-masses distinctly pendulous, attached 
to the narrow elongated pollen-carrier by very slender caudicles ; 
follicles solitary (only one immature example seen), about 2} in. 
long, 44 lin. thick, narrowly lanceolate, tapering at the upper third 
into an acute beak, smooth, glabrous ; seeds (not ripe) about 34 lin. 
long, 14 lin. broad, plano-convex, ovate, wing-margined, smooth on 
both sides, dark brown. 
Eastern Reaion : Natal ; ‘‘ Buck-bush, near Durban, ex Herb. M. J. McKen, 
no. 4,”"! and ‘* Buck-bush, Umgeni,” Gerrard, 1320! 
Gerrard's specimens are distributed without localities, those given above are 
copied from his original labels in the Dublin Herbarium. 
4. T. Flanagani (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xviii. Beibl. 45, 11) ; 
stem twining, glabrous ; leaves very thinly coriaceous ; petiole }—1} 
in. long ; blade 14-3} in. long, {-24 in. broad, from ovate to elliptic 
or elliptic-oblong, very acute to very obtuse or rounded and api- 
culate at the apex, rounded to subtruncate at the base, glabrous ; 
flowers in lax branching panicles or forked cymes, lateral at the 
nodes, and (including the peduncles) 2-5 in. long, with a spread of 
2-6 in., each branch bearing 2-4 small umbel-like cymes of 2-6 
flowers ; bracts inconspicuous, subulate ; pedicels 4 in. long, very 
slender, glabrous ; sepals about # lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous 
or with minute scattered adpressed hairs ; corolla rotate, about 4} 
lin. in diam., dark purple or dark crimson, glabrous ; lobes 2 lin. 
long, ? lin. broad, lanceolate-attenuate, twisted at the truncate apex, 
about 4 times as long as the united part ; corona-lobes arising at the 
base of the staminal column, equalling or slightly exceeding it and 
adnate to it at the basal part, erect, 1—} lin. long, slightly gibbous 
at the base, tapering into the subulate free incurved tips, dark 
purple-brown ; staminal column } lin. long ; pollen-masses pendulous ; 
style-apex raised into a small central boss. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1898, 486. 
Coast Reaion : Komgha Div. ; in woods near Komgha, Flanagan, 378 ! 
Eastern ReGion : Tembuland ; summit of Engeobo Mountain, 4500 ft., Bolus, 
10193! Natal ; at Westville, in marshy woods near Durban, 1000 ft., Sanderson, 
2006 ! Zululand ; Ongoa, Gerrard, 2169 ! 
