Liditheolea.} LXXXV. ASCLEPIADE& (BROWN). 493: 
coronal-lobes 7-1 lin. long, erect, fleshy, gibbous at the base, broadly 
linear at the middle, triangularly dilated at the tips, which are inflexed 
over the anthers, with contiguous margins and minutely echinulate on 
the back, keeled on the inner face, glabrous. Pollen-masses nearly } 
lin. long. Pollen-carrier narrow, rather more than half as long as the 
pollen-masses.—K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 
zum ii.—iv. 288, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 43. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Henweinn Valley, about 3000 ft., Miss Edith Cole! 
Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! in rocky places by the Riva Dana, Riva, 1100, and without 
precise locality, Robecchi-Bricchetti, 318 (ex Schumann). 
This is one of the handsomest and most distinct of all the Stapelioid group, 
The dimensions of the corolla are taken from the dried flower, and are probably 
exceeded when alive. 
53. TAVARESIA, Welw. in Bol. Cons. Ultramar, Lisb, 1854, 
No.7, 79. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla large, tubular-funnel-shaped, 5-lobed ; lobes 
valvate in bud, the sinuses between them forming acute projecting 
angles. Corona double, arising from the staminal-column ; outer corona 
shortly tubular at the base, then divided into 10 long filiform segments, 
each terminated by a knob, and usually with a minute tooth between 
the pair of segments that alternate with the anthers ; inner corona of 5 
narrow lobes, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and dorsally con- 
nected with the basal part of the outer corona by short partitions. Stami- 
nal-column arising from the base of the corolla; anthers ovate-oblong, 
without appendages, incumbent on the top of the style. Pollen-masses 
solitary in each anther-cell, horizontal, rather large, compressed, pellucid 
margined on one side, attached in pairs by short caudicles to subulate 
lateral processes from the pollen-carriers. Style not exceeding the 
anthers, flat and pentagonal at the apex. Follicles not seen. Seeds 
rather small, crowned witha tuft of hairs.—Succulent leafless perennials, 
branching at the base; stems 6—12-angled; angles tuberculate-toothed, 
each tubercle furnished with three bristles. Flowers large and showy, 
in sessile cymes at the base of the young stems.—Decabelone, Decne. in 
Ann. Se. Nat. 5 sér. xiii. 404; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 784. 
Species 2, one endemic, the other also in South Africa. The flowers vary very 
much in size in both species, even on the same plant under different conditions. 
Stems 6-8-angled; lateral bristles of the tubercles 
upeurved : . 1. ZT. angolensis, 
Stems 10-12-angled ; lateral bristles of the tubercles 
deflexed . . “ ‘ . . . - 2, T. Barklyi. 
1. T. angolensis, Welw. in Bol. Cons. Ultramar, Lisb, 1854, 
No.7, 79. Glabrous in all parts. Stems 2}—5 in. high, fleshy, leafless, 
6- (rarely 8-) angled ; angles with conical tubercles 1}—2 lin. long, ter- 
minated by three whitish bristles ; central bristle horizontal, two lateral 
much shorter and curved upwards. Cymes sessile, few-flowered ; 
pedicels $ in. long. Sepals 3}-4 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate. 
