Caralluma. | LXXXV, ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 487 
The specimen consists of one piece of stem and several detached flowers, but pro- 
bably the latter are produced in large umbels near the base of the young stems, as in 
C. lutea, N. E. Br., which seems to be its nearest ally. The flowers are pressed out 
flat, but when alive they probably have a short campanulate or funnel-shaped tube 
3—i as long as the lobes. 
16. C. Lugardi, JV. #. Br. Plant 24-3 in. high, branching at the 
base. Stems 34-5 lin. thick, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous ; angles with 
spreading stout subulate acute teeth 14-24 lin. long. Flowers in 
fascicles of 3-7, lateral below the apex of the stems, developing 
successively ; bracts }—1 lin. long, broadly ovate, acute; pedicels 14-3 
lin. long, ? lin. thick, glabrous. Sepals 2—2} lin. long, 4-2 lin. broad, 
lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 14-1} in. in diam., very 
deeply 5-lobed, glabrous outside, very minutely puberulous within and 
sparingly ciliate with minute simple hairs, entirely bright chocolate, or 
the apical part of the lobes olive-green; tube 23—3 lin. long, campanu- 
late; lobes #-1 in. long, 14-2 lin. broad at the base, linear-attenuate, 
acute, campanulately spreading. Outer corona 15—20-toothed, glabrous ; 
basal part 4 lin. long, cup-shaped, with 5 pairs of elongated-deltoid 
acute divergent blackish-purple teeth ? lin. long, alternating with the 
anthers, and 5 pairs of smaller teeth or 5 oblong entire or bifid lobes 
(often with a very minute middle tooth), opposite to and forming a 
dorsal projection from the inner coronal-lobes, } lin. long, dull purplish ; 
inner coronal-lobes 2 lin. long, subulate, connivent-erect, glabrous, dull 
orange. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Totin near Lake 
Ngami, Lugard, 74! 
17. C. huillensis, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 697. Plant 
broadly tufted. Stems ascending, 2-3 in. long, thick, club-shaped, 
4-angled, softly but obsoletely pubescent; angles with stout teeth, 
straight or slightly decurved at the tips. Flowers in clusters of 6—10 
at or near the apex of the stems ; pedicels 4-1 in. long, rather stout, 
glabrous ; bracts about 2 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous. Sepals 
rather more than } in. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous. Corolla 
dusky red, thinly or obsoletely pubescent outside, nearly glabrous and 
rugulose on the inner face, deeply 5-lobed; tube about 4 in. long, 
sub-hemispherical ; lobes 1}—14 in. long in their dried state, lanceolate- 
linear. Outer coronal-lobes short, very obtuse, excised, revolute ; inner 
coronal-lobes about 4 lin. long, stoutly subulate. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Welwitsch, 4266. 
18. C. maculata, V. #. Br. Stems not seen, “ 3-4 in. high” 
(Lugard). Cymes very short, raceme-like, sessile, progressively several- 
flowered ; pedicels 14-14 in. long, ? lin. thick, erect, glabrous. Sepals 
24-3 lin. long, #-1 lin. broad, lancevlate, tapering into a long acuminate 
point, glabrous. Corolla about 1} in. in diam., deeply 5-lobed, 
yellowish-green, marked with small dark claret-coloured spots from the 
tips of the lobes to the bottom of the tube, glabrous on both sides, not 
rugose, ciliate for 3 the way along the lobes with long vibratile clavate 
