492 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Hoodia. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Mossamedes; among elevated rocks near Poman- 
gala, 1500 ft., dry places in front of Quitibe de Baixo, and at Cavalheiros, Welwitsch, 
4265! 
52. EDITHCOLEA, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 220. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla large, rotate or saucer-shaped, 5-lobed 
half-way to the centre; tube hemispherical, exceedingly small in 
proportion to the limb; lobes valvate in bud. Corona small, double, 
arising from the staminal-column; outer corona of 5 short ascending 
or somewhat pouch-like lobes, alternating with the anthers, with their 
margins shortly adnate to the inner coronal-lobes; inner corona of 5 
erect fleshy lobes, dilated at the apical part and inflexed over the 
anthers, with contiguous margins, densely echinulate or tuberculate 
on the back, Staminal-column arising near the bottom of the 
corolla-tube very small; anthers erect or slightly incurved at the 
tips, oblong, unappendaged. Pollen-masses erect, compressed elongate- 
ovoid, pellucid at the apex, solitary in each anther-cell, large 1 
proportion to the corona, attached in pairs to the blackish pollen- 
carriers by very short broad caudicles. Style not exceeding the 
anthers, somewhat compressed-truncate at the apex, something like 
the roof of a house, with the two angles very shortly produced or 
bicorniculate. Follicles not seen.—Succulent perennial leafless herbs, 
more or less branched; branches fleshy, spine-toothed at the angles. 
Flowers from near the apex of the branches, pedicellate, very large. 
Species 2, the other endemic in Socotra. 
1. E. grandis, V. £. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 220. Stems 
succulent, ‘‘ growing to about a foot in height and 1 in. or more 1n 
diam., decumbent at the base” (Miss Hdith Cole), 5-angled, glabrous ; 
angles armed with hard brown very acute spine-like teeth. Flowers 
subsolitary at the tips of the branches; pedicels 7-9 lin. long, 
14-14 lin. thick, glabrous. Sepals 4 lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, probably recurved at the somewhat 
indurated pungent tips. Corolla 4—5 in. or perhaps more in diam., 
5-lobed half-way to the centre, rotate or saucer-shaped, glabrous on the 
back; tube about } in. in diam. and 14-2 lin. deep, with a slightly 
elevated acute rim around its mouth, glabrous; disk rugose with 
concentric ridges and furnished with 5 lines of long clavate purple 
hairs radiating from the centre to the sinuses, otherwise glabrous, 
apparently whitish or pale yellowish marked with dark purple-browB 
spots, which, at the middle (or base ?) of each lobe are confluent 1n aD 
arc; lobes 14-2 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, ovate, acute, bordered with 
long clavate purple hairs to about the middle, where the borders incurve 
and form a broad hairy are across each of the lobes, which are other- 
wise glabrous, and from the inner margin of the hairy are to the ape 
are dark purple-brown without markings. Outer coronal-lobes -4 
lin. long, subquadrate or transversely oblong, acutely bifid, with a broad 
shallow sinus between the points, concave and hairy within; ier 
