776 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Telosma. 
subulate process on their inner face. Staminal column arising from 
the base of the corolla; anthers oblong, erect, with long erect 
membranous appendages, connivent over the style-apex. Pollen- 
masses erect, solitary in each anther-cell, attached in pairs to the 
pollen-carriers by very short caudicles. Style with a stout penta- 
gonal-ovoid apical part, not exceeding the anther-appendages. 
Follicles smooth. Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. 
Stem twining ; leaves opposite ; flowers of moderate size, numerous, in pedun- 
culate or subsessile umbel-like cymes ; subaxillary or lateral at the nodes. The 
name is derived from tye, far, and ooun, odour, in allusion to the great distance 
at which the aromatic odour of one of the species is perceptible; Mr. Coville 
stating that he ‘could always tell at a distance of two blocks (over 200 ft.) 
whether or not there was a bouquet of mil-leguas (the native name of Telosma 
odoratissma, Coville) in my house.” 
The name Prageluria, N. E. Br., entered in the key to the genera on p. 523 and 
provisionally indicated in the Kew Bulletin, 1907, 825, which I intended to apply 
to this genus, hitherto (as detailed on p. 757) mistaken for Pergularia (Linn.), was 
given in ignorance that Mr. Coville had in 1905 (Contributions from the United 
States Herbarium, ix. 384) already applied to it the name Telosma. But as that 
name merely appears in an alphabetical list, and the only indication that itis a new 
generic name is mixed up with the remarks upon the species, it had been 
entirely overlooked. 
Disrrip. Species several, mostly Indian and Malayan; the following is the 
only African species, 
1, T. africana (N. E. Br.); stem twining, glabrous; leaves 
herbaceous, thin; petiole }~3 in. long; blade 13-5} in. long, 1-3} 
in. broad, oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, shortly cuspidate into an 
acute or obtuse point, rounded, subtruncate, cordate or more rarely 
cuneate-acute at the base, glabrous on both sides, or sparsely and 
minutely puberulous above; umbels lateral at the nodes, rather 
densely several- or many-flowered, subglobose ; peduncles 0-5 lin. 
long, minutely adpressed-puberulous ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, glabrous 
or minutely puberulous; sepals 1-2 lin. long, 3-1 lin. broad, 
lanceolate or ovate, glabrous, minutely ciliate; corolla green 
(Wood), yellow (Barter) ; tube usually about } (more rarely }) in. 
long, globose-inflated and apparently somewhat plicate, constric 
at the mouth or upper part, glabrous outside, densely hairy at the 
throat and upper part, with 5 lines of hairs alternating with the 
corona-lobes on the lower part ; lobes 34-6 lin. long, 3-1} lin. broad 
at the base, linear-attenuate, obtuse, horizontally spreading, re- 
curved or revolute, often twisted, densely bearded at the base and 
more shortly along the rest of the inner face; corona-lobes erect, 
1-1? lin. long, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or more or less obovate, 
rounded, subtruncate or subacute at the slightly recurved apex, 
with a linear or attenuate appendage about 1 lin. long arising at 
about the middle of their inner face and connivent-erect over the 
1} lin.-long staminal column ; anther-appendages }-1 lin. long, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, connivent over the ovoid obtuse 
style-apex ; follicles not seen, Pergularia africana, N. E. Br. in Kew 
