488 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Caralluma. 
white hairs ; tube very short, apparently about 14 lin. deep and } in, 
in diam.; lobes very spreading, about # in. long and } lin. broad, 
narrowly oblong or somewhat spathulate-oblong, acute, reflexed along 
the margins. Outer corona cupular, circular in outline, truncate, 
glabrous; inner coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, incumbent on the backs of 
the anthers, rhomboid, acute, dorsally and rather broadly adnate to the 
outer corona almost up to its margin. 
‘Mozamb. Dist. Bechuanaland: near T’Klakane Pits in the northern Kala- 
hari Desert, 3000 tt., Lugard, 297! 
Imperfectly known species. 
19. C. Ango, VY. £ Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 369. Stems 
a span high, erect, branched, 3—4-angled, glabrous; angles stoutly 
toothed; teeth acute, usually ascending. Flowers arising from the 
upper part of the branches, shortly pedicellate. Sepals oblong-lance- 
olate, acute, glabrous. Corolla scarcely 1 in. in diam., deeply 5-lobed ; 
lobes ovate-oblong, acute, green on the back blackish-purple within.— 
Stapelia Ango, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 50; Walp. Ann. iii. 69; 
Martelli, Florul. Bogos. 56. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Deban Mountain, near Keren, 4500-5000 ft., Beccart, 
188 (ex Martelli). Abyssinia: province of Shireh, Quartin Dillon. 
I have not seen this plant and I am informed that there is no specimen of it in 
Rich ird’s herbarium, I doubt if Beccari’s plant is the same as that collected by 
Quar.in Dillon. There is a specimen named S. .4ngo, in the Museum ad’ Histoire 
Naturelle, Paris, collected at Dschadscha (Jaja), 4000 ft. elevation, by Schimper 
(1289) ; of this I have only seen a drawing, which appears to me to represent the 
plant I have described as C. Sprengeri. Possibly C. Sprengert may prove to be 
synonymous with C. Ango, but as many species of this group are much alike in 
general appearance, and this native name Ango is applied to several distinct species, 
it appears to me best to consider them as distinct. 
20. C. decaisneana, V. £. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 369. 
Stems erect, cylindric, 4-ribbed rather than tetragonal (elongate, weak, 
4-angled, ex Decaisne), whitish-green speckled with red; ribs rounded, 
very prominent (angles acutely toothed, ex Decaisne). Flowers small 
(few, congested at the apex of the stems, ex Decaisne); lobes elongated- 
triangular (ovate, ex Decaisne), spreading like a star, reddish-brown, 
powdered with very minute whitish papillea.—Boucerosia decaisneana, 
Lemaire, Herb. Gén. Amat. 2 sér. iv. t. 21, Horticult. Universel, v. 99 
with fig. and Pl. Grasses autres que les Cact.28; Decne. in DC. Prod. 
Vili. 648. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, ex Lemaire. 
I have not seen this plant, nor Lemaire’s figure of it. 
21. C. adscendens, 2. Br. (an Indian species), is quoted by 
Terracciano in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 1894, v. 105, as growing on 
Mandola Island in the Red Sea, but no description is given of the 
plant, and I altogether doubt the identification. 
