780 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Fockea. 
outside and within, dull light yellow; tube 1-1} lin. long, 
campanulate ; lobes recurved-spreading, about 4 in. long, ? lin. 
broad at the base, linear-attenuate, obliquely subtruncate at the 
apex, with recurved margins and more or less twisted; corona 
arising near the base of the corolla, 24-3 lin. long, white, the lower 
half tubular and longer than the corolla-tube, divided above into 5 
trifid segments alternating with 5 minute entire or bifid lobules or 
5 pairs of minute teeth, with the middle tooth of the trifid segments 
filiform or linear-subulate, shorter than or about equalling the tube 
and 3-4 times as long as the lateral teeth, which are decurrent as 
keels within the tube ; between the keels at the middle of the tube 
arise 5 filiform teeth or processes connivent-erect over the white 
anther-appendages, which reach to the top of the corona-tube. 
F. edulis, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 146, in note, and in Engl. 
and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 296 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 
487, partly. Pergularia edulis, Thunb. Prodr. 38; in Nov. Act. 
Acad. Petrop. xiv. (1805) 519; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 151 (edalis), and 
ed. Schultes, 233; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1247; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 271; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 56 ; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 133. Chymocormus 
edulis, Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 1842, 24. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 239 ex Decaisne, and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Recion: Mossel Bay Div. ; Gouds (Gauritz) River, herb. Thunberg! 
Uitenhage Div. ; near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4443! 4457! near the Zwartkops 
Salt-pan and River, Thunberg! Zeyher, 965! Ecklon and Zeyher, 10! 
Partly described from a living plant cultivated at Kew. The large tuberous 
rootstock is eaten by the natives, and, according to Zeyher, has a milky, somewhat 
sweetish juice. 
5. F. capensis (Endl. Iconogr. Gen. Pl. t. 91, and Nov. Stirp. 
Dec. 3, 17) ; rootstock very large; stems 1-2 ft. long, tortuous or 
twining, puberulous or very shortly and softly pubescent ; leaves 
very shortly petiolate, deflexed, 1—Z in. long, }-4 in. broad, elliptic- 
oblong, obtuse, apiculate, rounded at the base, slightly folded 
lengthwise, undulate, shortly pubescent on both sides ; flowers 3-5 
together, lateral at the nodes; pedicels 1-2 lin. long, minutely 
tomentose, as are the 3-1 lin.-long lanceolate acute sepals ; corolla 
puberulous outside and on the inner face; tube about 1} lin. 
(scarcely 2 lin., Endlicher) long, campanulate ; lobes very spreading, 
3-34 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, more or less twisted, truncate at 
the apex, with revolute margins, green; corona arising near the 
base of the corolla-tube, white, about 2 lin. long, ‘the lower half 
tubular and about as long as the corolla-tube, divided above into 
5 trifid segments alternating with 5 small recurving entire or bifid 
teeth, middle tooth of the trifid segments filiform, as long as the 
tube and 3-4 times as long as the lateral teeth, which are decurrent 
within the tube as 5 pairs of wing-like keels, between which, at the 
middle of the tube, arise 5 other filiform teeth in one series opposite 
the middle teeth and reaching to the level of the lateral teeth of 
