498 LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). [ Huernia. 
_ thick, exclusive of the 3-3} lin. long stout conical very acute teeth at 
the angles. Flowers from the base of the young stems; pedicels 3-4 
lin. long, # lin. thick, glabrous. Sepals 3 lin. long, 3 lin. broad at the 
base, subulate-acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 1-1} in. in diam., smooth 
and glabrous outside and within the tube, inside papillate on the 
lobes and the limb just at their base, dull purple or port-wine 
colour, the lobes and some mottling on the convex part of the limb 
dull ochreous ; tube 34-4 lin. long, 6 lin. in diam., campanulate ; limb 
convex or recurving, with 5 distant deltoid very acute spreading lobes 
3 lin. long, 2-24 lin. broad, and 5 small teeth alternating with them. 
Outer coronal-lobes ? lin. long, 1 lin. broad, subquadrate, bifid to half- 
way down, adpressed to the bottom of the corolla, dark blood-red, 
glabrous; inner coronal-lobes 1 in. long, subulate, exceeding the 
anthers, ascending and connivent over the apex of the style, bright 
yellow, margined with dull purple in their upper part, glabrous. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: on dry, flat, stony ground, cultivated specimen, 
Mrs. Lort-Phillips ! 
Described from a living plant sent to the Cambridge Botanic Garden by Mrs, 
Lort-Phill:ps. The bright yellow inner coronal-lobes, looking like 5 points of light 
within the dark corolla-tube, form a very distinctive feature in this species. 
Imperfectly known species. 
7. H. macrocarpa, V. £. Br. Stems about the length of a 
finger, fleshy, glaucous, subquadrangular; angles coarsely toothed ; 
teeth fleshy, acute, recurved, spinescent at the apex. Peduncle simple, 
arising from the sinus at the base of the branches and about equalling 
them, erect, 1-flowered. Flowers... Follicles in pairs, 2—5 in. long, 
approximate, erect, subparallel, narrow, compressed, acute or hooked at 
the apex, marked with interrupted purple lines. Seeds ovate, glabrous, 
marginate, terminated by a setose pappus.—Stapelia macrocarpa, A. 
Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 50; Walp. Ann. iii. 70. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: in the province of Shireh, Quartin Dillon. 
This plant has been considered by Schweinfurth & Schumann to be the same as 
H. Penzigii, N. E. Br., and by Taubert the same as H. concinna, N. E. Br., but as 
the flowers of Stapelia macrocarpa, A. Rich., are undescribed, the stems and 
follicles of several species are very much alike in the dried state, and the species are 
often very local in their distribution, as well as for reasons stated below, it appears 
better to consider them distinct species. 
In A. Richard’s herbarium, now in the possession of M. Drake del Castillo, I am 
informed that there is no specimen now extant bearing the name of S. macrocarpa, 
A. Rich. There is, however, a Specimen consisting of one branch about 3 in. long 
and jin. in diam, (including the teeth), and a detached fruiting peduncle with two 
follicles, which are 5} in, long ; this specimen fairly agrees with Richard’s description 
of S. macrocarpa, and was collected in Shireh province, at Debra Sina, in Abyssinia, 
by Quartin Dillon & Petit, so that it may be the type. In the Paris Herbarium 
there are specimens named §. macrocarpa, A. Rich., which were collected in the 
province of Samen, Abyssinia, at the following localities: Sabra, 5000 ft., Schimper, 
945, and Shoata, 6000-7000 ft., Schimper, 946. Of all these I have only seen 
tracings, and am informed that Dillon & Petit’s and Schimper’s specimens appear to 
