622 ADDENDA. 
culate, glabrous on both sides, shortly ciliate. Cymes lateral at the 
nodes, shortly pedunculate. Bracts subulate, glabrous. Pedicels about 
23 lin. long. Sepals about 1} lin. long, subulate, often recurved at the 
tips. Corolla-tube 7 lin. long, narrow, slightly inflated at the base, 
slightly dilated at the mouth; lobes 64 lin. long, about } lin. broad, 
connate at the tips, becoming free with age, glabrous. Inner coronal- 
lobes elongated, about 2 lin. long, much exceeding the staminal-column, 
otherwise undescribed. 
South Central. Congo Free State: Lukafu, Verdick, 367. 
The liberation of the coronal-lobes with age is, so far as J am aware, unique in 
the genus, and may have been caused by pressure in the process of drying. 
43a. Ceropegia Kerstingii, A. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 
326. Stem solitary from a thickened rhizome, erect, 6-8 in. high, 
simple, minutely pilose at the apex, yellowish-brown. Leaves sessile, 
about 1 in. long, } lin. broad, linear-filiform, minutely pilose on the 
margin. Flowers solitary or in pairs on each stem. Pedicels 1—2 in. 
long. Sepals 24 lin. long, subulate. Corolla 4} in. long; lurid purple 
with a white mouth spotted with brown ; tube ellipsoid, inflated at the 
base, dilated at the mouth ; lobes as long as the tube, narrowly linear 
from a triangular base, connate at the apex. Follicles elongated linear- 
terete, acuminate, narrowed at the base. 
Upper Guinea. ‘Togo: near Aledyo in the Lokode-Basari district, 2500 ft., 
Kersting, 307. 
Remarkable for its very large flowers and long pedicels. 
1. Echidnopsis cereiformis, Hook f. Add: Z. tessellata, K- 
Schum. Monatssch. fiir Kakt. xiii. 109. 
3a, Caralluma tombuctuensis, V. /. Br. Stems 11-22 ft. high, 
erect, branching, 4-angled ; upper branches short and spreading, pale 
green, glaucous ; angles wing-like, irregularly crenate, with spreading 
or deflexed teeth at the crenatures 7-14 lin. apart. Flowers in compact 
balls as large as an orange. Pedicels 5-7 lin. long. Sepals 14 lin. long, 
lanceolate, acute. Corolla funnel-shaped-rotate, 6-7 lin. in diam., 
blackish-purple, smooth outside, rugose-papillate on the inner face, 
ciliate with vibratile purple hairs 1 lin. long. Outer coronal-lobes 
spreading, deeply divided into 2 subulate segments, which diverge ,and 
curve towards the segments of the adjacent lobes ; inner coronal-lobes 
short, linear from a deltoid convex base, inflexed upon the backs of the 
anthers and not exceeding them. Follicles 4—43 in. long, linear-fusi- 
form, acuminate or beaked.—Boucerosia tombuctuensis, A. Chev. in Actes 
Congr. Intern. Bot. Paris, 1900, 271 & 261, t. 11. 
North Central. Timbuctu and vicinity, Chevalier. 
_5a. Huernia concinna, V. Z. Br. Transfer to the synonymy of 
this species the references “‘ H, macrocarpa, Schweinfurth. ex K, Schu- 
mann, Monatzschr. fur Kakteenkunde, 1894, iv. 155, with fig. ; Engl. 
and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 279, fig. 84, F, and 280,” which were 
wrongly entered under 1, Penzigii, N.E.Br. 
