distinctions of importance sufficient to constitute a particu- 

 lar genus. We have therefore continued to retain this 

 species among the genuine Stapblias which have been di- 

 vided into convenient sections by Mr. Brown. That gentle- 

 man, in remodelling the order of Ascl^iadeoe, found it 

 necessary to make no other alteration in the genus, as ori- 

 nally fixed, than to reform the essential character, which 

 was defective and inaccurate; and to divide from it the 

 species with a 10-cleft corolla (Huernia Brown), and those 

 with a single corona to the corolla (Piaranthus Brown), 



The singular appellation (normalis), which has been 

 bestowed upon the species by Jacquin, alludes to the regu- 

 lar manner in which tlie spots of the corolla are arranged. 



Branches many, much divided, bending down, or rising 

 upwards, green, from 4 to 10 inches long, the old ones scarcely 

 so thick as one's little finger, four-cornered ; the angles with 

 very spreading teeth. Flower-stalks from the lower part of 

 the young branches, generally at their divisions, solitary,' 

 one-flowered, round, smooth, very much spreading, an inch 

 and half long, as thick as a crow's quill. Leaves of the 

 Cahfx ovate, acute, smooth, pale green, very much spread- 

 ing. Corolla stinking, its diameter two inches and more, 

 nearly flat, very much spreading, divided half Way ; on the 

 outside of a pale sulphur colour, streaked in lines, smooth, 

 in the inside with a yellow ground, striped across and 

 marked with blood-red spots, which are regularly disposed 

 in longitudinal parallel rows. Tube scarcely any. Divisions 

 of Corolla 4 or 5, ovate, acute, flat. Crown spurious, 

 warted, of the same colour as the divisions. Sac of the 

 nectary short, nearly white, marked at the bottom with a 

 blood-red ring, and at the top with two or three spots of a 

 similar colour. Horns round, obtuse, erect, at the top 

 curved backwards, green, dotted with blood-red. Straps 

 oblong, blunt, split at the end, often having a little tooth- 

 let between them, very much spreading, greenish, covered 

 on both sides with dark purple spots, at the bottom blood- 

 red. Seed-pods smooth, as thick as one's fingei*, about four 

 inches long, and nearly erect. Jaco. 



J.L. 



