Telosma. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 777 
Bulletin, 1895, 259, and in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. i. 426 ; Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1898, 486. P. sanguinolenta, Britten in Trans. Linn, 
Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 29, and K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 326, 
not of Lindley. 6 
EasTERN Recion: Natal; Berea, near Durban, McKen, 2! 1996! Wood, 5147! 
6591! Tugela Valley, Gerrard, 1804! in bush adjoining the {Botanic Gardens, 
Durban, Wood, 3395! 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
XXXII. FOCKEA, Endl. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes oblong, linear- 
lanceolate or linear, valvate or overlapping and usually twisted in 
bud. Corona arising near the mouth or towards the base of the 
tube at the insertion of the staminal column and longer than the 
former, tubular, toothed at the top, and with 1-2 superposed series 
of 5 teeth or filiform processes placed between or decurrent as 5 pairs 
of wings within the tube. Staminal column inserted near the mouth 
or towards the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers erect, triangular, 
their appendages very large, erect, membranous, inflated. Pollen- 
masses erect, solitary in each anther-cell, very flat and thin, sessile, 
in pairs at the apex of the minute pollen-carriers. Style produced 
into a short thick point to about the level of the top of the anther- 
cells. Follicles not echinate. Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. 
Perennials with large tuberous rootstock and twining or erect stems; leaves 
opposite ; flowers in small subaxillary clusters or cymes. 
Distrip, Species 11, the others in Tropical Africa. 
Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, 4-20 times as long as 
broad : 
Stems or branches 2-6 in. long ; leaves truncate at the 
base, hooked at the apex, with remarkably sinuate- 
undulate margins ...  ... «+ vs» ~—s eve (1) undulata. 
Stems or branches 6-18 in. long ; leaves narrowed or 
rounded at the base, not hooked at the apex nor 
undulate at the margins: 
Corolla-lobes 4 lin, long; corona about 24 times as 
long as the corolla-tube ... +. ... (2) tugelensis. 
Corolla-lobes 6-8 lin. long ; corona about 4 times as oe 
long as the corolla-tube ... ves wee” wee (8) angustifolia. 
Leaves oblanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, oblong, ovate or 
elliptic, 2-4 times as long as broad : 
Leaves glabrous on both sides ... +» «+» ~— «+» (4) glabra, 
Leaves shortly pubescent on both sides ves ave (5) Capensis. 
1. F. undulata (N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 260); tuber 
large, with an elongated woody neck, producing erect pale brown 
puberulous branches 2-6 in. long ; leaves-sessile, }~1} in. long, 3— 
1} lin. broad, linear, incurved-hooked at the subacute apex, trun- 
