480 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Caralluma. 
sparsely covered with minute thick hairs; pedicels 2—3 lin. long, stout, 
glabrous. Sepals about 14 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, with a few 
minute thick hairs. Corolla about 1? in. in diam. ; tube large, cam- 
panulate, about ? in. long and broad ;_ lobes 6-7 lin. long and as much 
in breadth, spreading, ovate, acute, ciliate with clavate hairs on the 
revolute margins, otherwise the corolla is entirely glabrous. Outer 
coronal-lobes spreading, 13 lin. long, narrowly lanceolate-oblong, bifid 
to half-way down; teeth parallel; inner coronal-lobes ? lin. long, 
oblong, obtuse, truncate or emarginate, incumbent on the backs of the 
anthers, which are ascending and reach to the top of the truncately 
conical apex of the style.—Sarcocedon speciosus, N. E. Br. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xvii. 170, t. 12, fig. 4-8. 
Wile Land. South Somaliland: near Magadoxo, Kirk ! 
Probably C. codonoides, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr, C. 328, is a synonym 
of this species, but the description is insufficient for identification; it runs as 
follows: Stems 10 in. high, tetragonal, bearing at the apex a many-flowered umbel 
of brownish-black flowers, similar in form and size to those of Campanula Trache- 
lium. Follicles about 4} in. long, glabrous. Seeds 43 lin. long, 33 lin. broad, 
broadly margined, adorned with a tuft of hairs nearly 14 lin. long. It was collected 
by Volkens (2382) between Gonja and Kinhiro in Usambara, German East Africa. 
2. C. hirtiflora, V. HL. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 264. Stems 
not seen, stated on the label to be “‘ very thick, fleshy, square,” and the 
flowers in a rough sketch are shown to be in large terminal umbels. 
Pedicels 1 in. or more long, glabrous. Sepals 14-2 lin. long, lanceolate- 
attenuate, with a few minute hairs on the back. Corolla rotate, 5-lobed 
to half-way down, glabrous outside, ciliate and densely covered inside 
with long purple persistent hairs; lobes 3-5 lin. long, 24-4} lin. broad, 
deltoid-ovate, acute. Outer corona arising at the base of the staminal- 
column and as Jong as it, cup-shaped, with 10 subulate teeth 1 lin. long, 
and often with a minute tooth between each pair, hairy and more or 
less ciliate; inner coronal-lobes } lin. long, linear, incumbent on the 
backs of the anthers and not produced beyond them, dorsally connected 
to the outer corona by narrow partitions, glabrous. Staminal-column 
2 lin. long; anthers subquadrate, obtuse, without an appendage, incum- 
bent on the truncate apex of the style. 
Wile Land. Harnish Island, in the Red Sea, Slade, 20! Eritrea: neigh- 
bourhood of Saati, Schweinfurth & Riva, 519! 
Of this I have seen only a few flowers and a rough sketch of the plant. It 
appears to be similar to C. retrospiciens, N. E. Br., in habit ; the flowers are also: 
similar but twice as large, and very hairy within. In the specimens collected by 
Schweinfurth & Riva (519), the flowers are smaller in the dried state, although 
densely covered with persistent hairs as in C. hirtiflora, 
3. C. retrospiciens, V. HE. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 379. 
Stems 15-2 ft. high, branched, very stout, acutely 4-angled; angles 
much compressed, about 3 in. broad, with broad deltoid decurved teeth, 
glabrous. Umbels terminal, sessile, usually several clustered together, 
forming a large compound globose umbel 3-4 in. in diam., with @ 
hundred or more flowers; pedicels 3-14 in. long, glabrous. Sepals 
