490 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Trichocaulon. 
of it is, that dried slices of the stem were imported into America as a remedy 
for piles; some of the slices (which have flowers attached to them) were presented 
to Kew by Mr. E. M. Holmes of the Pharmaceutical Society, and from them I 
have made the above description. 
2. T. pedicellatum, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 
xxx. 266. Stems dwarf, glabrous, cylindric, as thick as the thumb, 
many-angled ; angles tubercled, each tubercle terminated by a bristle 
1-1} lin. long. Flower-fascicles 1-4-flowered ; pedicels 2—2} lin. long, 
glabrous. Sepals 3-1 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 
about 4-5 lin. in diam., rotate; tube small, } lin. long; lobes very 
spreading, 2 lin. long, 1-11 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 
papillate within, dark purple-brown. Outer coronal-lobes arising from 
the middle of the } lin. long staminal-column and slightly overtopping 
it, bifid, purple-brown, glabrous; teeth of the lobes 4 lin. long; inner 
coronal-lobes 4 lin. long, linear, obtuse, incumbent on the backs of the 
anthers and longer than them, dorsally adnate to the lobes of the outer 
corona, purple-brown, glabrous. Anthers incumbent on the top of the 
style, which is truncate, depressed and covered by the inner coronal- 
lobes.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 275. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: west Hereroland ; probably 
from the neighbourhood of Hope Mine, Stapf! 
I have only seen flowers and a small fragment of the stem about 1 in. long, 
which I believe to have been much larger than described. 
51, HOODIA, Sweet: Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. Pl. ii. 783. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube very small, enclosing the corona ; 
limb large, flat, concave, or cup-shaped, obsoletely or but slightly 
d-lobed ; lobes abruptly terminated by a subulate point. Corona double, 
arising from the staminal-column ; outer corona of 5 concave spreading 
lobes, emarginate or bifid at the apex; inner corona of 5 linear lobes 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers, dorsally connected to the outer 
corona by 5 short partitions. Staminal-column arising from near the 
base of the small corolla-tube; anthers incumbent on the top of the 
style, subquadrate, not appendaged. Style not produced beyond the 
anthers, truncate at the apex. Follicles elongate, divaricate, smooth.— 
Stout succulent perennials, with cylindric, many-angled stems; angles 
Spine-toothed. Flowers large and showy, in small clusters of 2-5 or 
sometimes solitary, arising from the grooves between the angles of the 
stem towards the top.—Dyer in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 248. Mono- 
thylaceum, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 116. Scytanthus, Hook. Ic. Pl. t- 
605-606. 
Species 6, three of which are natives of South Africa, 
Corolla 33-5 in. in diam., pilose with bairs 1-2 lin. 
long within . ‘ ' ° . : 
Corolla about 24 in, in diam., pilose with hairs i-1 lin. 
long within : c : ° : . 
Corolla about 13 in. in diam., pubescent with hairs 
$-} lin. long within Me RG el 6 . 3. H. parviflora. 
1. H. Currort. 
2. H. Lugardi. 
