Huernia. | LXXXV. ASCLEPIADEZ (BROWN). 499 
belong to one and the same species. If this opinion is correct (and the propinquity 
of the localities supports this view), there can be no doubt that it is specifically dis- 
tinct from H, Penzigii, N. E. Br., and from H. concinna, N. E. Br., as the corolla 
of Schimper’s plant is marked with concentric zebra-markings on the inner side, 
which is not the casein H. Penzigii or H. concinna. 
8. H. Engleri, Zerracciano in Ann. Jstit. Bot. Roma, v. 105, 
Stems 4-angled, erect, “ geographically” spotted with white and green ; 
angles with acute teeth, Cymes 3-4-flowered; flowers with long 
peduncles (probably pedicels are intended). Sepals obovate-lanceolate, 
acute. Corolla blackish-purple and spotted ; lobes stellately spreading. 
Outer corona subentire, angulate. 
Nile Land. Crulli Island, in the Red Sea, Terracciano, 22, iii, 
I have not seen this plant. From the description it is impossible to be certain 
if it belongs to the genus Huernia, and I am much inclined to believe that it will 
prove to be a species of Caralluma. 
55. HUERNIOPSIS, N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 171. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed; lobes valvate in 
bud. Corona of 5 simple stout lobes arising from the staminal-column 
and adnate to it for half their length, opposite to the anthers and con- 
nivent over them; no outer corona. Anthers slightly ascending, not 
appendaged. Pollen-masses solitary in each anther-cell, slightly ascend- 
ing, pellucid along the inner margin, attached in pairs by short cau- 
dicles to the oblong lateral processes of the pollen-carriers.—A dwarf 
succulent perennial. Stems short, decumbent, 4-angled, toothed along 
the angles. Flowers of moderate size, produced near the middle or 
towards the top of the young stems. 
A monotypic genus, alsofound in South Africa, 
1. H. decipiens, JV. 2. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 171, t. 12, 
figs. 9-13. Plant tufted. Stems 1-3 in. long, 4-6 lin. thick, exclusive 
of the teeth, decumbent, often somewhat clavate, 4-angled, toothed 
along the angles, glabrous, grey-green mottled with darker green or with 
purplish ; teeth at the angles shortly conical, tipped with a horizon- 
tally spreading subulate leaf-rudiment 1-1} lin. long, having a minute 
tooth on each side at the base. Cymes sessile near the middle or 
towards the top of the young branches, 2~4-flowered ; pedicels 1-2 lin. 
long, stout, glabrous. Sepals 3-3} lin. long, 1 lin. broad, lanceolate, 
very acuminate, glabrous. Corolla about 1 in. in diam., outside pale 
greyish-green, spotted and streaked with purplish, glabrous; inside 
brownish-red or rich brownish-crimson, more or less mottled with 
yellow, varying in intensity of colour, even in flowers of the same 
cyme, glabrous, fringed at the base of the lobes with vibratile clavate 
purple hairs; tube 4—44 lin. long, 5 lin. in diam, outside, campanulate ; 
lobes 4-44 lin. long, 3 lin. broad at the base, deltoid, very acuminate, 
varying from ascending to recurved. Coronal-lobes 3 lin. long, 1 Jin. 
broad at the base, arising }-3 lin. above the base of the staminal- 
