486 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Caralluma. 
tapering into long narrow tails, spreading, glabrous on both sides, 
sparingly ciliate with long vibratile clavate purple hairs. Outer 
coronal-lobes # lin. long, shortly united at the base, spreading, subquad- 
rate, bifid, with short divergent teeth at the apex, or sometimes nearly 
truncate, with the teeth horizontally spreading and somewhat resemb- 
ling the letter T; inner coronal-lobes 2-1 lin. long, linear, obtuse, 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not exceeding them, adnate 
at the base to the outer corona. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Namasi, Cameron, 25! 
14. C. lateritia, V. H. Br. Stems not seen, “grows to 9 in. 
high” (Lugard). Pedicels about 3 in. long, about 14 lin. thick, glabrous. 
Sepals 23-3 lin. long, #-1 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. 
Corolla 3-33 in. in diam., rotate, very deeply 5-lobed, glabrous on both 
sides, finely papillate-rugulose on the inner face, ciliate with long 
vibratile clavate purple hairs to the tips of the lobes, “ brick-red ” 
(Lugard) ; lobes 14 in. long, 5 lin. broad at the base, thence gradually 
tapering to an acute apex. Outer coronal-lobes with their margins 
slightly adnate at the base to the base of the inner coronal-lobes, 14-1} 
lin. long, 13 lin. broad, cuneately subquadrate, irregularly denticulate 
at the subtruncate recurved apex, and with 5 closely placed ridges or 
keels on the middle of the upper side, glabrous, apparently brick-red, 
with a broad yellow stripe down the middle ; inner coronal-lobes 14 lin. 
long, unequally 2-horned, glabrous, brick-red; inner horn 1-1} 
lin. long, erect, subulate; outer horn 4-2 lin. long, erect, subulate. 
Mozamb. Dist. Bechuanaland: Northern Kalahari; on the Botletle Flats, 
near Tame’s and Rakop’s Villages, at about 3000 ft., Lugard, 307! 
This is exceedingly like the S. African C. lutea, N. E. Br., but its flowers are 
very much larger and different in colour. Captain Lugard notes on his label that it 
is “foul scented.” 
15. C. valida, V. HL. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 264. Stems 
glabrous, 4 in. or more high, 7-10 lin. thick, not including the teeth, 
probably 4-angled; angles with very stout conical acute spreading 
teeth }—} in. long and } in. thick at the base. Pedicels 4—5 lin. long, 
glabrous. Sepals 34 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, recurving 
at the tips, glabrous, Corolla very deeply 5-lobed ; lobes 8-9 lin. long, 
2} lin. broad at the base, gradually tapering in a nearly straight line 
to an acute apex, rugose on the face, ciliate with long clavate vibratile 
purple hairs, otherwise glabrous, apparently dark brown-purple. Outer 
coronal-lobes 1} lin. long, shortly adnate at the base to the sides of the 
inner coronal-lobes, oblong-lanceolate and acute, with a small blunt 
tooth on each side, or linear-oblong and subtruncate, 2-3-keeled down 
the inner face ; beneath them on the very short staminal-column are 5 
small tubercles ; inner coronal-lobes 14 lin. long, connivent-erect, flat, 
broadly linear, rather deeply bifid at the apex, with the tips apparently 
recurving, crested at the base. 
Locality uncertain, collected by Dr. Holud either in the Zambesi region or in the 
Transvaal. 
