mens which flowered at Kew during the past year, and which 
were sent by Sir H. Barkly. : 
Duscr. Stems succulent, leafless, ceespitose, three to six 
inches high, with ten to twelve strongly marked angles fur- 
nished with processes each bearing one erect and two lateral 
deflexed slender white spines. Flowers borne asin D. elegans, 
occasionally two on a common peduncle, suberect ; pedicels 
one-third to one-half inch. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes quarter of 
an inch long, linear-deltoid. Corolla two to three inches 
long, narrowly campanulate, tube slightly curved, marked 
much as in D. elegans ; lobes deltoid, very acute, with occa- 
sionally an intermediate tooth. Staminal-crown double ; 
exterior of ten similar segments connate at the base and 
slightly united in pairs, tapering into filiform, capitate, dark 
violet processes; interior of ten dissimilar processes, five 
slender and adnate to the anthers, upon which they are 
incumbent as in D. elegans, five alternating with these and 
one-third as long, broadly deltoid, and bifid. Amthers as in 
D. elegans.—W. 1. T. D. 
Fig. 1, Section through exterior staminal-crown, showing andreecium viewed 
from above (magnified) ; 2, portion of staminal-crown viewed from within, on the 
right of the figure the place of attachment is shown of two anthers which have 
been removed, on the left an anther the form of » hich has been accidentally dis- 
torted by the lithographer ; 3, pair of pollen-masses viewed from above (mag- 
nified), 
