Caralluma. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 485 
Nile Land. Eritrea, cultivated specimens! Abyssinia: Adowa, Petit ! 
Chiefly described from the living plant, introduced into cultivation by Dam- 
mann & Co. of Naples. I originally described the colour of the corolla as olivaceous, 
but the colour had faded in transit. See a note under C. Ango, N. E. Br. 
12. C. atrosanguinea, JV. /. br. Stems 2-3 in. long, 5-6 lin. 
thick, 4-angled, cespitose, branching and decumbent at the base, grey- 
ish-green, marbled with brownish-purple, glabrous; angles obtuse, 
toothed ; teeth 14-3 lin. long, stout, conical, tipped with a subulate 
acute quickly withering leaf-rudiment, having 2 minute teeth at its 
base. Flowers in fascicles of 2-3 at about the middle of the younger 
stems, developing successively ; bracts 14-2 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 
24-3 lin. long, stout, glabrous. Sepals 44 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, spreading. Corolla about 1? in. in diam., outside 
quite glabrous, greyish-green, mottled with purplish; inside rich deep 
blackish-crimson, without spots or markings; tube 3} lin. long, about 
7 lin. in diam. outside, campanulate ; lobes 3-? in. long, } in. broad, 
ovate, very acute, tipped with a short mucro, very spreading, slightly 
recurved along the margins, excavated at the mouth of the tube oppo- 
site the lobes of the outer corona, very slightly rugulose and very 
minutely papillate on the inner face. Outer coronal-lobes arising $ lin. 
above the base of the staminal-column, horizontally spreading, firm, 
rather fleshy, about 1 lin. long and broad, deltoid-ovate, longitudinally 
folded, forming a channel in which nectar is secreted, bifid at the obtuse 
apex, dull orange-yellow, reddish in the channel ; inner coronal-lobes 5 
lin. long, linear-terete, obtuse, much exceeding and incumbent on the 
anthers at the base, then divergent, ochreous at the base passing into 
pale sienna above, whitish at the tips.—/Stapelia atrosanguinea, N. E. 
Br. in Gard. Chron. 1901, xxx. 425. 
Mozamb, Dist. Bechuanaland : northern Kalahari Desert, 3000 ft., Zugard, 
263! and cultivated specimens ! 
Described from a living plant sent to Kew by Captain Lugard in February 1899. 
When out of flower the plant much resembles Huerniopsis decipiens, N. E. Br. 
I originally placed this remarkable plant in the genus Stapelia, but after my 
present revision of the genera of this group, I believe it to be better placed in 
Caralluma, on account of its habit, very distinct corolla-tube, and peculiar channelled 
outer coronal-lobes. 
13. C. caudata, V. #. Br. Stems (only one piece seen, 3 in. long, 
4 in. thick, excluding the teeth), erect, glabrous, 4-angled; angles 
rounded, toothed; teeth about 5 lin. long, rather distant, straight, 
spine-like. Flowers several, in sessile umbel-like fascicles near the 
base of the young stems; bracts very small, about 1 lin. long, acute; 
pedicels } in. long, 1 lin. thick, glabrous, erect. Sepals 3 lin. long, 3-} 
lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla in bud 14 in. long, 
pentagonal, tapering into a long acuminate slightly twisted point ; very 
deeply 5-lobed when expanded, yellow, mottled with purple; united 
rt 24-3 lin. long, somewhat saucer-shaped, minutely papillate within ; 
lobes 14-1} in. long, 34 lin. broad at the ovate base, thence gradually 
