494 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). [ Tavaresia. 
Corolla smooth (or minutely and sparsely scabrid-tuberculate) outside, 
densely papillate within, pale yellowish, spotted inside and out with 
purple red ; tube 14-3 in. long, 1-2 in. in diam. ; lobes }—}? in. long, 
spreading, deltoid, acute. Outer corona 7-9 lin. long, shortly tubular 
at the base, divided into 10 filiform segments, ending in pendulous pear- 
shaped orange-brown knobs, the other parts similar in colour to the 
corona of D. Barklyi; inner coronal-lobes about #? lin. long, linear- 
attenuate, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and scarcely longer 
than them, dorsally connected to the outer corona by short partitions, 
dark purple-brown. Follicles not seen. Seeds 2—24 lin. long, 14 lin. 
broad, ovate, plano-convex, with a broad thick border, glabrous, smooth, 
light brown.—Welw. in Bol.e Ann. Cons. Ultramar. 1856, No. 24, 252; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i.697. Huernia Tavaresii, Welw. in Bol. 
e Ann. Cons. Ultramar. 1856, No. 24, 252. Decabelone elegans, Decne. 
in Ann. Se. Nat. 5 sér. xiii. 404, t. 2; Bot. Mag. t. 6115; Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 275, 276, fig. 88, C-D. D. grandiflora, K. 
Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 276. Stapelia digitaliflora, 
Pfersd. ex Decne, in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 sér. xiii. 405. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; near Loanda, near Alto das Cruzes and 
Forte de Penedo, Welwitsch, 4262! Ambriz, Monteiro / and cultivated specimens ! 
2. 'T. Barklyi, V. #. Br. Glabrousin all parts. Stems 3-4 in. high, 
8-9 lin. thick, fleshy, leafless, cylindrical, 10-12-angled ; angles with 
very short closely set tubercles, each terminated by 3 white bristles ; 
central bristle horizontal, two lateral rather shorter, deflexed and 
diverging from each other at nearly aright angle. Cymes sessile, few- 
flowered ; pedicels 4-6 lin. long. Sepals 3-3} lin. long, lanceolate, 
acuminate. Corolla smooth, pale greenish or greenish-white, spotted 
with purple-red outside ; inside densely papillate, pale yellowish, covered 
with small purple-red spots, except at the base, which is entirely purple- 
red ; tube 14-2 in. long, about 1 in. in diam. at the mouth ; lobes }—? in. 
long, deltoid, acuminate, spreading. Outer corona 5 lin. long, shortly 
tubular at the base, divided into 10 filiform segments terminating in 
peudulous globose knobs, the filiform parts and knobs purple-brown, 
the lower part white, with the margins, some stripes alternating with 
each pair of filaments and a few linear spots or stripes all dark purple- 
brown ; inner coronal-lobes # lin. long, linear, dorsally connected by 
short partitions to the outer corona, incumbent on the backs of the 
anthers, which they slightly exceed, purple-brown.— Decabelone Barklyi, 
Dyer in Bot. Mag. t. 6203; and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 249-250, t. 5, 
fig. 4; N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xx. sub t. 1905, p. 3; K. Schum. in 
Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 275; Gard. Chron. 1900, xxvii. 
210, fig. 67. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Hereroland ; Gobabis, Schinz, 
150! 
Also in South Africa. 
In the dried state, the flowers of this species can only be distinguished from 
those of J. angolensis, Welw., by the knob at the ends of the outer coronal- 
segments being globose instead of pear-shaped. 
