Glossonema. — Daemia. 745 
very obtuse. Style protruded for about 5 mm beyond the anther- 
appendages; apical part stout, conical, obtuse or shortly bifid. Follicles 
1'/,—2 in. long, 11—21 mm thick, ovoid, acute, strongly echinate, 
minutely pubescent or nearly glabrous. Seeds about 5 mm long, 
2'/, mm broad, ovate, flattened, very minutely scaberulous, dark 
brown. 
D. a. mer. Kene; Qoseyr; Wady Albaruk; Alirsa Zebara; 
Tundeba; Wady Gadire; Wady Lekhuma. 
Local name: eteyr; etirr (Klunzinger); the fruit — shafella 
(Klunzinger). 
Also known from Tropical Africa and Arabia. 
425. (3.) Daemia R. Br. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube campanulate or cylindric; lobes 5, 
widely spreading, overlapping to the left in bud. Corona double; 
outer corona at the base of the staminal-column, membranous, 
annular, shortly 5-lobed; lobes subquadrate or oblong, obtuse, trun- 
cate, or denticulate; inner corona of 5 erect fleshy lobes adnate to 
the staminal-column up to the anthers, free above and produced 
into subulate horns incurved over the staminal-column, at the base 
produced into spreading or deflexed spurs. Staminal column arising 
at the mouth of the corolla-tube, entirely exserted; anthers erect, 
terminated by.a membranous appendage, inflexed over the apex of 
the style. Pollen-masses pendulous, solitary in each anther-cell. 
compressed, attached in pairs to the pollen-carriers by their tapering 
ends, without caudicles. Follicles lanceolate, echinate or smooth. 
Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. — Twiners, with opposite 
cordate leaves, and sublateral pedunculate corymbs or racemes of 
moderate-sized flowers. 
Species 4, of which 2 extend through Arabia and Syria into India, 
2 oceur in South Africa, and 1 in Madagascar. 
1048. Daemia tomentosa (L.) Vatke in Oester. Bot. Zeitschrift 
(1876), p. 146. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ill. Flor. d’Eg., p. 104 no. 683. 
— Pergularia tomentosa L. Mant. (1771), p.53. — Desf. Flor. Atl. I. 
p. 209. — Lam. Illustr., tab. 176. — Daemia cordata RBr. in Mem. 
Wern. Soc. Edinb. I, p. 50. — Boiss. Flor. Or. IV, p. 59. — Asclepias 
cordata Forsk. Flor.aeg.-arab., p.49. — Daemia incana Decsne. in 
Ann. Scienc., Nat. 2 sér. IX p. 336. — Stems shortly tomentose, with 
or without a- mixture of long hairs, sometimes slightly hispid. Leaves 
deflexed; petiole 4—6 mm long; blade 1—2?/, cm long, 10 mm to 
2,5—3 cm broad, cordate-orbicular or cordate-ovate, apiculate or 
shortly cuspidate, rather, thick, tomentose on both sides. Flowers 
