496 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEE (BROWN). | Huernia. 
coronal-lobes }—3 lin. long, ascending, linear, obtuse, with a narrow 
transverse dorsal ridge at their base.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl, Welw. i. 
698. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungs Avdongo; in clefts of rocks on the mountain 
slopes of the Presidium near Cabondo, Catete, &c., Welwitsch, 4264 ! 
2 H. aspera, V. L. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1887, ii. 364. Stems 
procumbent and ascending, 3—9 in. long, $ in. thick, very obtusely 5—6- 
angled, glabrous ; angles with small rigid spreading teeth (rudimentary 
leaves) 4 lin. long, above each of which isa curved transverse impressed 
line connecting the grooves between the angles. Cymes sessile near the 
base of the young shoots, 3—5- (or more- ?) flowered; pedicels 4-3 in- 
long, glabrous. Sepals } in. Jong, lanceolate, acuminate, very spreading, 
glabrous. Corolla campanulate, about } in. long, }-1 in. in diam., 
outside dull purple, very rough with numerous small pointed papille ; 
inside uniformly blackish-purple, densely covered with pointed papille ; 
lobes deltoid, acuminate. Outer coronal-lobes about } lin. long and 
broad, subtruncate, slightly emarginate, intense blackish-crimson ; 
inner coronal-lobes }—3 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate or linear, acute or 
obtuse, yellowish, their tips slightly exceeding the anthers and very 
slightly upturned, not produced into subulate points.—Bot. Mag. t. 
7000 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 280. 
Mozamb. Dist. Probably Zanzibar or German East Africa, precise locality 
unknown, Kirk ! 
3. H. oculata, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6658. Stems 2-35 in. 
high, about 5-6 lin. thick (without the teeth), 5-angled, glabrous ; angles 
with stout fleshy spine-like teeth 2-4} lin. long. Cymes few-flowered, 
sessile near the base of the young stems; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, 
glabrous. Sepals 3-4 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous, Corolla 
about 10 lin. in diam., minutely papillate-asperate inside and outside, 
otherwise glabrous and not ciliate, green, more or less tinged with pur- 
plish outside, blackish-purple on the lobes and upper part of the tube 
within, the base of the tube white; tube about } in. long, broadly 
campanulate; lobes 24 lin. long, deltoid, acuminate, spreading. Outer 
coronal-lobes about 4 lin. long and broad, subquadrate, truncate or 
slightly emarginate (not rounded as represented in the plate), glabrous; 
inner coronal-lobes # lin. long, elongate-deltoid, with a dorsal transverse 
ridge at their base, minutely puberulous, connivent, but without erect 
tips.—K. Schum. in Eng). & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 280- 
Lower Guinea. (German South-west Africa: Damaraland, Zen! Wind- 
hoek, Dinter ! 
4. H. Penzigii, V. 4. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xi. 719. Stems 
erect, 2-3 in. high, 6-8 lin. thick, excluding the teeth, 5-angled, 
glabrous; angles with stout conical straight spreading teeth 4—5 Jin- 
long, ending in fine subulate points. Flowers 1-5 in a fascicle at the 
base of the young stems, developing successively ; pedicels } in. long, 
glabrous. Sepals 4—6 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, spreading, glabrous. 
