Huernia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 497 
Corolla campanulate, about } in. long, and ? in. in expanse; rough out- 
side and inside with minute wart-like papille, which are inconspicuous 
in the dried state, otherwise glabrous, and not ciliate, entirely 
blackish-purple within; lobes about } in. long, deltoid, slightly spread- 
ing. Outer corona of 5 transversely oblong, obtuse or emarginate 
lobes } lin. long, purple-black ; inner coronal-lobes ? lin. long, incurved 
over the backs of the anthers, then erect, deltoid-subulate, with a trans- 
verse ridge behind at their base, glabrous, blackish-purple.— Huernia 
macrocarpa, Dammann, Cat. 1892, 4 and 7, fig. 6; Wiener Il. Gartenz. 
1892, 350, fig. 58. H. Penzigii, Baker ex Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. 
Internaz. 1892, 349. H. macrocarpa, Schweinf. ex K. Schumann, 
Monatzschr. fiir Kakteenkunde, 1894, iv. 155, with fig. ; Engl. & Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 279, fig. 84, F. and 280. Stapelia macrocarpa, 
Martelli, Florul. Bogos, 56, 
Nile Land. Eritrea: among rocks on Mount Sevan, near Keren, Penzig (ex 
Penzig); near Geleb, cultivated specimens, Penzig (ex Cronemeyer)! Deban 
Mountain, near Keren, 4500-5000 ft., Beccari (ex Martelli). 
Specimens collected in Eritrea, at Acrur, 6000 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1340, 
may also belong to this species, but those I have seen are without flowers. 
According to Schumann, this plant is the same as Stapelia macrocarpa, A. 
Rich., but the stems of that species are described as subquadrangular and the 
flowers are unknown. See note under H. macrocarpa, N. E. Br. 
5+. H. concinna, .V. £. Br. Stems tufted, 1-14 in, long, 44-5 lin. 
thick, exclusive of the teeth, decumbent, 5-angled, glabrous, light green, 
scarcely glaucous ; angles toothed ; teeth 3-34 lin. long, straight, spread- 
ing, subulate from a stout conical base, without lateral teeth. Flowers 
1—2 or more ? fascicled on the basal part of the young stems; pedicels 
24 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 4 lin. long, ? lin. broad at the base, 
gradually tapering to very fine hair-like points, glabrous. Corolla about 
1 in. in diam., outside glabrous, smooth, whitish; inside everywhere 
covered with little bristle-like processes, pale sulphur-yellow, marked all 
over with small dark brownish-crimson spots, narrowly margined with 
dark purple-brown on the lobes, not ciliate; tube about 3 lin. long and 
7 lin. in diam., broadly campanulate; lobes 4 ‘lin. long, 43 lin. broad, 
slightly spreading, deltoid, acuminate. Outer corona very shortly 
5-lobed, rich velvety purple-brown ; lobes } lin. long, 3—? lin. broad, 
transversely oblong, emarginate; inner coronal-lobes } lin. long, } lin. 
broad at the base, gradually tapering to a subobtuse point, connivent 
in a cone over the tips of the anthers, yellow, margined and speckled 
with purple-brown.—H. macrocarpa, Taubert in Gartenfl. 1895, 353, 
t. 1416, not of other authors. 
Wile Land. Eritrea, Schweinfurth (ex Taubert). Somaliland: cultivated 
specimen, Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 
Described from a living plant brought from Somaliland by Mrs. Lort-Phillips, 
which flowered in Cambridge Botanic Garden in July 1900. 
6. H. somalica, V. HL. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 309. Stems 
5-angled, light green, glabrous, scarcely glaucous, 2}—3 lin. high, 7 lin. 
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