2'eiiaris.] Lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 473 



1. T. somalensis, ^^! E. Br. Apparently a tall slender herb ; 

 the unique specimen is 10 in. long, leafless, glabrous, and is evidently 

 only the inflorescence, being marked to the base by the scars of fallen 

 flowers, which are racemosely arranged in moderately distant pairs, 1 of 

 each pair opening and fallirjg away before the other expands. J:}racts 

 minute, acuminate; pedicels 4 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals \-\\ 

 lin. long, h, lin. broad at the base, gradually tapering to an acute apex, 

 glabrous. Corolla outside whitish ? spotted with purple-brown, glabrous ; 

 inside dark purple or purple-brown on the lobes, marked with 2-:> 

 yellowish or whitish transverse bars at the base and densely fringed with 

 long purple flattened fusiform hairs ; tube 1 lin. long, campanulate or 

 cup-shaped ; lobes suberect or slightly spreading, 5 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, 

 spathulate-oblanceolate, acute, with an apiculus i lin. long. Outer 

 coronal-lobes bifid, glabrous ; inner coronal-lobes ligulate, obtuse, nearly 

 twice as long as the outer coronal-lobes, glabrous. — Lasiostelma somalensey 

 Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1899, 01. 



Wile Itand. Somalilaiid, Mrs. Lort-PhUlips I 



2. T. subaphylla, y. E. Br. Stems several to a plant, slender, 

 slightly branched, nearly leafless, glabrous. Leaves minute, scarcely 

 1 lin. long, sessile, subulate, acuminate, glabrous, adpressed to the stem. 

 Raceme terminal, about 4 in. long, slender ; bracts small, subfiliform ; 

 flowers in pairs, pedicellate ; pedicels 5-7 lin. long, very slender, 

 glabrous. Sepals f-lj lin. long, triangular, acuminate. Corolla cam- 

 panulate, probably purple-brown, quite glabrous ; tube 1 lin. long ; lobes 

 ^h lin. long, subulate, acuminate, broadly recurved along the margins. 

 Outer corona arising \ lin. above the base of the staminal-column, 

 urceolate, 10-toothed ; inner coronal-lobes J lin. long, subulate, about 

 equalling the anthers. Follicles (immature) 4 j lin. long, 1 lin. thick. — 

 Bradujstelma suhaphyllmn., K. Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 

 vii. 40. 



Wile Iiand. Sonialiliiiul : on a dry plain near Meiulah, Rohecchl-BrLCchetti, 

 113. 



This species is statiKl to be easily distinguished by its minute leaves, which cause 

 it to appear falsely leafless. 



a. T. rostrata, N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1S8.">, xxiv. :'>9. Tuber 

 1| in. in diam., depressed-globose. Stem l-i-2J ft. high, simple, slender, 

 glabrous. Leaves in 4-6 distant pairs, 1-3 in. long, J-U lin. broad, 

 linear or linear-tiliform, acute, glabrous, recurved-spreading. Inflores- 

 cence terminal, racemose or paniculate, leafless ; flowers in pairs or 1 4 

 together at the ends of the branches of the panicle ; bracts minute ; 

 pedicels 2-31 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals J-l lin, long, ovate or 

 lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Corolla rotate, J-l] in. in diam. ; lol>es 4-7 

 lin. long, J-l|- lin. broad, linear, or slightly dilated at the obtuse or 

 subacute apex, whitish, densely covered with minute purple dots on the 

 basal part, giving the flower a pinkish hue, e.specially when dried. 

 Outer coronal-lobes about I lin. long, spreading, conaive, ovate, bifid at 

 the apex, yellowish ; inner coronal-lobes much exceeding the anthers. 



