Echidnopsis. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 477 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Tanga, cultivated speci- 
men, Hildebrandt ! 
Described from a living plant cultivated at Kew, 
5. E. somalensis, V. Z. Br. Stems cylindric, 4—8 in. long. $—-? 
in. thick, tessellately 6-8-angled, dull green, glabrous. Flowers solitary 
or 2-3 together, subsessile. Sepals } lin. long, ovate, acute, very 
minutely papillate. Corolla rotate-campanulate, about 34 lin. in diam., 
dull purple-brown, variegated with yellow on the lobes, yellow, spotted 
with purple-brown on the disk; lobes spreading, 1}—1? lin. long, 1} 
lin. broad, ovate, acute, minutely tuberculate on the back, covered with 
minute conical acute or almost bristle-like papilla on the inner face. 
Outer coronal-lobes overtopping the inner corona, 4 lin. long, very 
narrow, linear, obtuse, ascending-incurved, channelled down the inner 
face, dark purple-brown, glabrous ; inner coronal-lobes about } lin. long,. 
deltoid-oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, incumbent on the backs of 
the anthers and not exceeding them in length, greenish. 
Wile Land. British Somaliland: without precise locality, cultivated speci-- 
men, Mrs. Lort- Phillips ! 
Described from a living plant. 
Imperfectly known species. 
6. E. cylindrica, A. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Phlanzenfam. iv. 
ii. 274. Stems cylindric, as thick as the little finger ; tubercles marked 
with a white point. Flowers small, crowded at the ends of the branches, 
subsessile. Coroila-lobes ovate-deltoid, subacuminate, yellow, densely 
mottled with fuscous (purple-brown ?). Coronal-lobes ovate. _Anthers 
truncate, destitute of a membrane.—Apteranthes cylindrica, Decne. in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 sér. xiii. 406. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Samen ; Nahia, in the district of Maschila, Schimper 
(ex Decaisne). 
I have not seen this plant. Decaisne states that it differs from Apteranthes 
tessellata (E. cereiformis) in its longer branches, which are almost destitute of 
areole, and in the rather larger flowers. It may be the same as £. cereiformis, var. 
brunnea, Berger. 
49. CARALLUMA, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 782. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate, broadly cup-shaped or with a 
distinct campanulate or subglobose tube, 5-lobed; lobes varying from 
broadly ovate to linear-attenuate, valvate in bud. Corona double, 
arising from the staminal-column ; outer corona sometimes annular or 
cup-shaped, entire, crenulate, denticulate, 5-10-(rarely 20) toothed or 
lobulate, adnate to the backs of the inner coronal-lobes at their base 
or connected to them by narrow partitions ; sometimes of 5 lobes more 
or less adnate by their margins to the sides or backs of the inner 
coronal-lobes forming 5 small pouch-like cavities alternating with the 
anthers, or spreading, rarely quite free to the base, usually more or less 
