Caralluma. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE& (BROWN). 481 
1-24 lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, with a few minute hairs on the 
back. Corolla 6-8 lin. in diam., rotate, 5-lobed to half-way down, 
blackish-purple ; lobes 24-3 lin. long and the same in breadth, broadly 
deltvid-ovate, acute, glabrous on the back, rugulose, sparsely covered 
with long purple hairs or sometimes glabrous on the inner face, ciliate 
with similar vibratile hairs. Outer corona arising 4 lin. above the base 
of the staminal-column, cup-shaped, with 5 pairs of diverging-arcuate 
subulate teeth 4—} lin. long, more or less pubescent, purple-brown ; 
the two teeth belonging to each of the five united lobes that form the 
cup rather wide apart at the base, and sometimes with a minute tocth 
between them; inner coronal-lobes linear, obtuse, incumbent on the 
backs of the anthers and not exceeding them, dorsally adnate to the 
outer corona, purple-brown. Follicles 5-6 in. long, 8-4 lin, thick in 
the dried state, apparently subterete, acuminate, erect and subparallel. 
Seeds 5 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, deeply channelled down the face, from 
the broad margins being strongly incurved, smooth, glabrous, brown.— 
C. respiciens, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 11. 278 ; 
and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 42. Desmidorchis retrospiciens, 
Ehrenb. in Abhandl. Acad. Berl. 1831, 33. Boucerosia russeliana, 
Courbon ex Brongn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1860, vii. 900, and in 
Compt. Rend. Acad, Paris, lii. 487; and Courbon in Ann. Se. Nat. 4 
sér. xviii. 143, t. 7; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 1892, 348. 
Nile Land. Red Sea: Dahlac Island, Zhrenberg! Dessi Island, Courbon (ex 
Courbon). Nubia: near Kassala, Schweinfurth, 186! Uaratab Mountain, near 
Suakin, Schweinfurth, 187! O-Kurr, Schweinfurth, 467! Singat, Schweinfurth, 
ser. iii. 39! Eritrea: valley of the Torrent Lava, Penzig (ex Penzig). Abyssinia : 
between Sero and Mequedel, Courbon (ex Brongniart), from Tajura through the 
whole country of the Adeile (Adal) as far as E‘at, Roth, 410! Somaliland: Milmil, 
Riva, 803, 963, and near Marro Umberto, Riva, 719, 1164 (ex Schumann); Ber- 
bera, Walcott ! 
Var. glabra, N. E. Br. Corolla glabrous within and not ciliate, otherwise as in 
the type. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Witu, Thomas ! 
Probably Stapelia congestiflora, Delile in Rochet d’Héricourt, Second Voy. dans 
le pays des Adels et le royaume de Choa, 345, should be referred to this species. It 
is described as “ A clammy plant, with violaceous flowers collected in a_ ball.” 
According to Rochet d’Héricourt it is found in several localities in the desert of the 
Adel (Adal) country. 
4. C, Edithz, V. Z. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 219. Plant robust, 
bushy, succulent, glabrous in all parts except the corolla. Stems 
acutely 4- (rarely 5-) angled, 1 in. or more thick; angles with broad 
deltoid teeth having horizontal or more or less deflexed indurated 
points. Umbels terminal, sessile, globose, about 24 in. in diam., 
60-70-flowered ; pedicels 9 lin. long. Sepals 2}—3 lin. long, linear- 
subulate, attenuate to a fine point, strongly revolute at the apical part. 
Corolla about $ in. in expanse, glabrous and smooth outside, tuberen- 
late-rugose within, with a tuft of long purple vibratile hairs at the apex 
of each lobe, otherwise quite glabrous and not ciliate, dark purple- 
brown; tube short, campanulate, about 14-1? lin. long, 3 lin. in 
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