Echidnopsis. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). 475 
1. E. cereiformis, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5930. Stems fleshy,. 
leafless, $3 in. thick, cylindric, obtusely 8-angled; angles tessellately 
divided into obtuse tubercles, glabrous. Flowers fascicled near the 
tips of the stems, subsessile, bright yellow. Sepals }—} lin. long,. 
broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Corolla 34-4 lin. in diam., rotate-cam- 
panulate, 5-lobed to half-way down; lobes 14 lin. long, broadly ovate, 
acute, glabrous. Outer corona none; inner corona of 5 smooth fleshy 
deltoid-ovate acute lobes, horizontally inflexed and incumbent on the 
backs of the anthers, yellow.—Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 
1892, 349; Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 160, t. 3, figs. 3 and 6-10. 
L. tessellata, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 274, and 
in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 42. Apteranthes tessellata, Decne. in 
Ann. Se, Nat. 5 sér. xiii. 406. Stapelia cylindrica, Hort. ex Hook. f. 
in Bot. Mag. t. 5930. Piaranthus fascicularis, Hort. ex K. Schum. in 
Monatsschr. fiir Kakteenkunde, 1893, iii. 101. 
Nile Land. LHEritrea: near Geleb, Penzig (ex Penzig). Abyssinia: among 
rocks in the district of Maschila and in the vicinity of Dschedscha, Schimper (ex 
Decaisne). Somaliland: in dry chalky soil near Passo di Cavernan (Carbedan), 
Riva, 943 (ex Schumann). Also cultivated specimens ! 
Described from living cultivated plants. 
Var. brunnea, Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 160. Flowers purple-brown, paler 
towards the centre; coronal-lobes yellow. No other distinction.— 2, dammanniana, 
var. brunnea, Dammann, Cat. 1893, 46. 
Nile Land. Eritrea or Abyssinia: cultivated specimen ! 
Described from a living plant, introduced into cultivation by Messrs. Dam- 
mann & Co. of Naples. 
Var. obscura, Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 160. Flowers of an intense brown. 
Nile Land. Eritrea, Schweinfurth (ex Berger). 
2. E. nubica, V. “#. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 263. Stems and 
inflorescence as in /. cereiformis. Sepals $—} lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 
minutely papillate on the back. Corolla rotate or rotate-campanulate,. 
1}—2 lin. in diam., 5-lobed to rather more than half-way down ; lobes 
$-} lin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous, smooth within, minutely papillate 
on the outside. Outer corona none; inner coronal-lobes deltoid-ovate, 
about +} lin. long, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and about 
equalling them in length. Follicles attaining a length of 4 in. and a 
thickness of 4 lin., purplish with darker markings.—Berger in Mal- 
pighia, 1902, t. 3, figs. 11-12. #. dammanniana, Schweinf. in Garten- 
flora, 1895, 633, fig. 124-125, not of Sprenger. 
Wile Land. Nubia: Mount Erkowit, near Suakin, Schweinfurth, 228! 
Eritrea: Geleb, Schweinfurth (ex Schweinfurth). 
The flowers are much smaller than in any of the other species, and are described 
by Schweinfurth as purple-brown in colour, or dotted with purple-brown on a 
greenish ground. 
3. E. dammanniana, Sprenger in Dammann, Cat. 1892, 4, fig. 5. 
Stems like those of Z. cereiformis, 3 to ? in. thick, tessellately 8-10- 
angled, dull greyish- or purplish-green, glabrous. Flowers solitary or 
