472 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). [Brochystelma. 



irile Iiancl. British East Africa : Kikuyu region, near the foot of Mount 

 Keuia, 5200-6500 ft., Eohnel, 29. 



11. B. ellipticum, A. Rich. Tent. Fl Abyss, ii. 19. Tuber 

 depressed. Stems about 3-1 in. high, branched, scarcely pulverulent- 

 puberuious. Leaves 5-7 lin. long, li-2J lin. broad, oblong-lanceolate 

 or elliptic-oblong, acute, narrowed at the base into a short petiole, 

 glabrous. Flowers unknown. Fruiting pedicels solitary at the nodes, 

 about 3 lin. long. Sepals 2J-3 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Follicles about 10-11 lin. long, 4 lin. thick, ovoid-lanceolate, tapering 

 at the apex, glabrous. — Walp. Ann. iii. 68 ; K. Schum. in Engl. <fe 

 Prantl, Pfianzenfam. iv. ii. 268. 



ZTile Xiand. Abyssinia : Tacazze River, Quarlin Dillon. 



I describe this partly from a drawing of a portion of Richard's type which is now 

 in the herbarium of" M. Drake del Castillo. Tliis plant may possibly prov^e to be a 

 species of Raphionacme. 



17. TENARIS, E. Meyer; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 77r>. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes 5, linear or linear- 

 spathulate, spreading or ascending, replicate-valvate in bud. Corona 

 small, double, arising from the staminal-column above its base ; outer 

 corona of 5 concave, more or less spreading lobes^ alternating with the 

 anthers ; inner corona of 5 linear or subulate lobes, incumbent on the 

 back of the anthers and sometimes produced beyond them. Staminal- 

 cjlumn arising from the base of the corolla-tube; anthers incurved- 

 erect or incumbent on the apex of the style, with or without a very 

 short appendage. Pollen-masses minute, subascending or subhorizontal, 

 solitary in each anther-cell, turgid, with a pellucid margin near the 

 apex, attached in pairs by very short caudicles to the very minute 

 pollen-carriers. Style obtuse at the apex. Follicles slender, smooth, 

 erect. Seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. — Perennial herbs with 

 tuberous rootstock. Stems slender, erect, usually leafless in the 

 flowering part. Leaves opposite, linear. Inflorescence terminal, sub- 

 racemose or paniculate ; flowers usually in pairs, pedicellate. 



Species 5, two being South African. 



There is little beyontl habit to distinguish this genus from Brachystelma. The 

 aesti>ation is wrongly described in the Genera Plantarum, and tho minute teeth 

 described and figured by Harvey, and described by myself as existing on the face of 

 tlie outer coronal-lobes, do not belong to the corona at all, but are anther-wings, 

 Avhich, viewed from above, appear to be on the face of the coronal-lobes at their 

 base, hence the mirconception. 



Leaves very minute, not more than 1 lin. long, the 

 plant uppe;iring leafless. 

 Corolla-lobes fringed with long purple hairs . . 1. T. fiomalcnsis, 



Co/olla-lobes not fringed with hairs . . . "2. T. siibaphylla. 



Leaves i- 3 in. long, lineiir, in a few distant pairs . 3. T. rostrata. 



