for “ Apteranthes Numidica, Durieu, Explor. Alger. t. 62,” of 
Pritzel’s valuable ‘Iconum Botanicarum Index locupletissimus,’ 
should have been Campanula Numidica, which is the name 
written and the plant referred to on the plate quoted. Our 
greenhouse owes the possession of this rarity to Mr. Munby, | 
believe its discoverer in North Africa, unless the Stapelia 
hirsuta of Desfontaines, FI. Atlantica, vol. i. p. 213 ;—surely it 
cannot be the South African Sf. hirsuta, Linn., although Des- 
fontaines considered it as such. It flowers with us in Sep- 
tember. 
Descr. The entire aspect of the plant is that of a small- 
flowered Stapelia ; the stems and more or less pendent branches 
are quite leafless, about as thick as one’s finger, with from four 
to six angles, more or less deeply channelled between the angles, 
and these dentate, at intervals of nearly half an inch from each 
other, with short, sharp, triangular ¢eetZ, which are convex below, 
plane above. Flowers small, in wmée/s springing from the apex of a 
branch, or from a little below the apex, five to seven or eight in an 
umbel. Pedicels very short. Calyx quinquepartite ; segments 
lanceolate, acute, spreading ; within, at each sinus, are five small 
ovato-acute scales, only seen on removing the corolla. Corolla 
scarcely three-quarters of an inch broad, rotate, fleshy, pale- 
yellow, mottled and banded with dingy-purple, the five ovate 
segments soon recurved, villous at the faux and at the margins. 
Gynostegium sunk in the short tube of the corolla, . five-lobed 
at the margin ; the lobes dark-purple, triangular, its apex two- 
lobed, yellow: and there are two bright-yellow globose glands 
at the base. These lobes are close-pressed upon the stigma. 
Anthers simple at the apex. Stigma a depressed, obscurely five- 
angled, large, peltate disc. 
Vig. 1. Teeth, from the angles of the stem. 2, Flower. 3. Portion of calyx 
and pistil. 4. Gynostegium :—magnified. 
