Hoodia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 491 
1. H. Currori, Decne. in DC. Prod. viii. 665. Stems 13-2 ft. 
high, 2-2} in. thick, cylindric, many-angled ;' angles sharply spine- 
toothed. Pedicels 6-8 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals } in. Jong, lanceolate, 
acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 34-5 in. in diam., concave-rotate, slightly 
4—5-lobed, glabrous outside, covered with hairs 1—2 lin, long within ; 
lobes 24-44 times as broad as long, very obtuse, abruptly contracted 
into a subulate point } in. long; outer corona a shortly 5-lobed cup, 
glabrous ; lobes bifid ; inner coronal-lobes linear, obtuse, incumbent on 
the backs of the anthers and not exceeding them, dorsally adnate to 
the outer corona, glabrous. Follicles 8-10 in. long, divaricate, terete, 
acuminate.— Hook. Niger Flora, 458; Dyer in Journ. Linn. Soe. xv. 
251, t. 5, fig. 2; Lemaire, Pl. Grasses autres que les Cact. 67; N. E. Br. in 
Hook. Ic. Pl. xx. sub t.1905, p. 3; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzen- 
fam. iv. ii. 275. Scytanthus Currori, Hook. Ic. Pl. vii. tt. 605, 606 ; 
S. Burkei, Hook. Ic. Pl. sub t. 625. WS. sp., J. C. Brown in Gard. Chron. 
1873, 576, fig. 110. Adenium namaquarium, Henslow in The Gardener, 
1901, 1194, fig. 16. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Elephant Bay, Curror! Benguela, Monteiro ! 
German South-west Africa : Damaraland; Otyimbingwe, Palgrave ! 
Probably to this species should be referred the plant quoted as H. Gordont, 
Sw., in Engl. Jahrb. x, 244, and xix. 148 from Hereroland ; near Salem (Marloth, 
1453), aud at Soris-Soris (Giirich, 58). 
2. H. Lugardi, V. £. Br. Stems not seen, “erect, to 25 ft. 
high, thorny” (Lugard). Pedicels }~} in. long in the specimens seen, 
_ stout, glabrous. Sepals 24-23 lin. long, 14-14 lin. broad, ovate, 
acuminate, glabrous. Corolla about 23 in. in diam., “ brick-red” 
(Zugard), eoncave-rotate, obsoletely 5-lobed, each lobe very abruptly 
terminated by a subulate point 4-5 lin. long, glabrous outside, thinly 
covered with hairs }-1 lin. long within, each hair arising from a 
minute tubercle and probably erect. Outer corona shortly cupular, 
5-lobed ; lobes obtusely and deeply bifid, dark purple-brown or blackish, 
glabrous; inner coronal-lobes } lin. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers, dark purple-brown or blackish, 
glabrous. 
Mozamb. Dist. Bechuanaland : Chukutsa Salt Pan in the Kalahari Desert, 
2300 ft,, Lugard, 303 ! 
3. H. parviflora, V. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 265. Stems 
similar to those of H. Currort. Pedicels 1-2 lin. long, stout, glabrous. 
Sepals 24 lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 
about 1} in. in diam., probably concave or cup-shaped, pentagonal or 
very slightly 5-lobed, glabrous outside, pubescent with hairs 4—} Jin. 
long within; lobes or angles tipped by a subulate point 1 lin. Jong. 
Corona glabrous; outer lobes 4 lin. long, concave, bifid to half-way 
down ; inner lobes linear, obtuse, incumbent on the backs of the anthers 
and shorter than them, dorsally connected with the outer corona by a 
short partition.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 697. 
