484 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Caralluma. 
glabrous on both sides; lobes spreading (or ascending ?), 2 lin. long, 
1 lin. broad at the base, elongate-deltoid, acute, dark purple, glabrous, 
not ciliate on the reflexed margins. Outer corona of 10 linear-subulate 
teeth, $2 lin. long, ascending, each pair divergent-curved at the tips ; 
inner coronal-lobes $—3 lin. long, subulate, incumbent on the backs of 
the anthers and a little longer than them; anthers oblong, obtuse, wn- 
appendaged, incumbent on the truncate apex of the style. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Bent! 
10, C. gracilipes, X. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 328, Stems 
about 12-15 in. high, 3-4 lin. thick in the lower part, gradually taper- 
ing and becoming slender in the upper part, 4-angled, minutely and 
distantly toothed (probably the teeth bear subulate deciduous leaves) ; 
terminal part slender, bearing as many as 15 distant flowers. Pedicels 
slender, 33-4 lin. long. Corolla about 44 lin. long, with an inflated 
tube. Outer coronal-lobes hardly conspicuous, arising considerably above 
the base of the staminal-column ; inner coronal-lobes spathulate—K. 
Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 278. 
Mozamb. Dist. British East Africa: Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2700. 
Only known to me from Dr. Schumann’s description, where the stems are said to 
be 24-23 in. long, the apex running out into a peduncle about a foot long, but this 1s 
evidently intended to describe the gradual tapering of the stems that takes place in 
several species. The thickness of the stems is doubtless taken from the dried 
specimens and is probably much exceeded in the living state. 
11. C. Sprengeri, V. 2. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 263. Stems 
up to 5 in. high, branched, 4-angled, about ? in. square (including 
the teeth), glabrous, green, mottled with purple on darker green ; angles 
obtusely rounded, strongly toothed; teeth 3-6 lin. long, ascending- 
spreading, conical, tapering to a fine point. Flowers in fascicles of 5-6 
between the angles, near the apex of the branches; pedicels $ in. long, 
stout, glabrous. Sepals about 4 in. long, attenuate-deltoid, acuminate, 
glabrous. Corolla rotate about 3 in, in diam., purple, glabrous on the 
back, minutely and densely pubescent on the inner face; disk with 
slightly raised rim around the mouth of the very shallow depression 10 
which the corona is contained and contiguous to the latter ; lobes 4-5 
lin. long, 24-23 lin. broad at the base, ovate, acuminate, flat. Outer 
corona arising from the 3 lin. long staminal-column and as long as it, 
annular, truncate and rather thick and fleshy at the rim, reddish ; 
inner coronal-lobes oblong, obtuse or denticulate at the apex, dorsally 
attached at the base to the outer corona, ascending above the level 
of the latter, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and equalling or 
slightly longer than them, reddish. Anthers subquadrate, not appen- 
daged, incumbent on the sloping sides of the truncate style.—Huerma 
Sprengeri, Schweinf. ex Dammann, Cat. 1893, 46; Weiner II]. Gartenzeit. 
1893, 142, fig. 30; K.Schum. Monatsschr. fiir Kakteenkunde, iii. 74, 
104; Gartenfl. 1897, 274, fig. 35. 
