Brachystelma.] lxxxv. ASCLEriADE.E (brown). 4G'.) 



panulate; lobes 3 in. long, 2 lin. broad at the base, thence gradually 

 tapering into very long linear or linear-fibforrh tails, ascending-spread- 

 ing. Outer corona arising from the base of the staminal-colunm, about 

 1 lin. long, cup-shaped, 10-toothed, blackish-purple ; teeth about \ lin. 

 long and broad, deltoid-oblong, very obtuse, furnished with a tuft of 

 minute deflexed hairs at the apex on the inner face ; inner coronal-lobes 

 J lin. long, 1 lin. broad, linear-oblong, obtuse, incumbent on the backs 

 of the anthers, which they completely cover but do not exceed. 



Wile Xiand. British East Africa : Uorjuida Protectorate ; Xaiidi district, at 

 Fort Ternan, Johnston ! 



4. B. phyteumoides, K. Schicm. in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 141). 

 ,Stems several from a thick rhizome (or tuber ?), slender, sparingly 

 branched, about 4 in. high, sparsely puberulous in the upper part. 

 Leaves erect, l-i-^J in. long, ^--^ lin. broad, linear, acuminate, revo- 

 lute along the margins, glabrous, with a few minute hairs on the midrib 

 beneath. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in a terminal many- flowered 

 umbel placed between a pair of leaves ; bracts subulate, sparsely puberu- 

 lous, with solitary glands between them; pedicels 1-1. I lin. long, 

 puberulous. Sepals 1-1-| lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, glabrous. 

 Corolla-tube short, campanulate, about 1 [ lin. long, 1 .', lin. broad; lobes 

 I in. long, spreading, slender, almost filiform from a deltoid-ovate base, 

 with revolute margins, glabrous within, sparsely puberulous outside, dark 

 purple-brown. Corona included within the corolla-tube, glabrous ; outer 

 coronal-lobes J lin. long, bifid ; inner coronal-lobes scarcely I lin. long, 

 linear, obtuse, incumbent on the back of the anthers and not exceeding 

 them. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 2(;s, 



Wile ]Land. Jur : near Jur Gliattas, Schiveinfurth, ser. iii. 37 ! 



B. euphorbioides^ K. Schum. ex Duraiid & Jackson, Index Ke\ven>is Supj)!. i. 

 €2, is manifestly an error for B. phyteivmoides, as the name B. euphorhioides does 

 not occur at the place cited for it, nor liavc I Jouiid it elsewhere. 



5. B. Bingeri, A. Chevcdier in Jiev. Cult. Colon, viii. 07, vnih fig. 

 Tuber variable in form, often somewhat globose or oblong, 1^-3] in. in 

 diam. Stem slightly branching at the base, 2-4 in. high. Leaves in 

 3-5 pairs to each branch, shortly petiolate, 1-2J in. long, ^-1 in. broad, 

 varying from broadly elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, acute to very 

 obtuse, cuneate at the base, shortly puberulous above, glabrous or with 

 some hairs on the midrib beneath. Flowers axillary, in a :>-4-Howered 

 •cymule or solitary ; bracts about J lin. long, ovate, acute, rusty-juiberu- 

 lous ; pedicels 3-10 lin. long, slender, rusty-puberulous. Sepals 1-1} 

 lin. long, ovate, acute, rusty-puberulous. Corolla about 7 lin. in diam., 

 reddish-white, puberulous outside ; tube about 1 lin. long ; lobes about 

 :*) lin. long, deltoid-ovate, subacute. Outer corona cup-shapeil, furnislied 

 with 5 exterior filiform erect appendages equalling or longer than the 

 corolla-lobes ; inner coronal-lobes lanceolate, pointed, half as long ns 

 the outer corona. Fruit unknown. — N. E. Br. in (Jard. Chron. T.lOl, 

 xxix. 175. 



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