Pergularia.] lxxxv. asclepiade.« (brown). 427 



and sometimes twisted, shortly villous or bearded on their face, twisted 

 to the right in bud. Coronal-lobes adnate for J of their length to the 

 staminal-column at the base, expanded above into an elliptic-lanceolate, 

 orbicular-obovate or obovate-oblong blade 1-lJ lin. long, obtuse, sub- 

 truncate and subdenticulate or subacute at the apex, with a linear oi 

 lanceolate-attenuate acute process 1 lin. long, arising at or a little above 

 the middle of their inner face and connivent over the staminal-column. 

 Anther-appendages |-1 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, connivent. 

 Style much shorter than the anther-appendages, apical part ovoid, 

 obtuse. — P. sanguinolenta, Britten in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Hot. iv. 

 29, and K. Schum. in Engl. PH. Ost-Afr. C. 820, not of Lindley. 



ITpper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Kafo;:jo, Scott-Elliot, o4H0 ! wool's about 

 Bufodeya, <S'co/'/-i7//o^ 5498 ! 5553! Lag'os : interior, i?o«i7anrf .' \]i\\i'. Barter, 

 3332 ! . Ni„'er Territory : Nupe, Barter! Old Calabar, Thomson, 113 ! 



Mozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Zomba, Whute ! 



Also in Natal. 



41. POCKEA, Endl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 11?>. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes spreading, over- 

 lapping to the left or twisted in bud. Corona arising at the mouth of 

 the corolla-tube at the insertion of the staminal-column and longer than 

 it, tubular, toothed at the top and with teeth on the inner face of the 

 tube, which are arranged in 2 distinct superposed series of 5, or the 

 lower series dorsally adnate to the upper series so as to appear as one 

 series of unequally bifid teeth, opposite to or alternating with the 

 longer teeth of the tube, decurrent on the lower part of the tube as a 

 prominent keels or 5 pairs of keels. Staminal-column inserted in the 

 throat or at the mouth 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 to 

 about the level of the top of the anther-cells ; terminal part terete or 

 thickened and somewhat 2-lobed at the apex. Follicles not echinate. 

 Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. — Perennials with large tuberous 

 rootstocks and twining stems. Leaves opposite. Flowers in axillary 

 clusters, cymes, or very short dense racemes. 

 Species few, some of them natives of South Africa. 



This genus is very remarkable on account of the large inflated anther-appendajfcs 

 and the flat thin pollen-masse>:. It appears to form a connectiui: link b. tu..Mi tin 

 tribes SecamonecB and Marsdenieoe. 



Flowers in corymb-like cymes ; i>edicels 2-7 lin. 

 long. 

 Corolla-lobes glabrous within, subiu-ute . . .1. F. viuitijlom. 

 Corolla-lobes tinely pubescent within, obtuse . . 2. F. Schinzu. 

 Flowers in axillary clusters or very shortly and densely 

 spirate ; pedicels not more than \ lin. Icng. 

 Corolla-lobes 3-3] lin. long . . ' . . . 2. F. sessiliflora. 

 Corolla-lobes 5-7 lin. long ^ F. Lutjardt. 



