district. The other species, 7. flavum, N. E. Br., has a 
yellow corolla five-cleft to the base. 
T. piliferum flowered at Kew in April, 1883, from speci- 
mens sent by Prof. MacOwan, F.L.S., Director of the 
Botanical Garden at Capetown. 
Masson says of it, that it is found under shrubs on the 
driest hills of the Karroo near Roggevedt, and that it is 
eaten by the Hottentots, who call the plant Guaap. 
Descr. ‘Stem short, stout, as thick as the thumb, buried ~ 
in the soil. Branches tufted, straight, cylindric, simple, 
erect, four to six inches high and one and a half to two 
inches in diameter, rounded at the top, dull grey green, with 
thirty to forty deep furrows: ridges between the furrows 
presenting a series of mamill ry smooth tubercles tipped 
with a stout bristle one-sixth of an inch long that has a 
white base. Flowers one-half to two-thirds of an inch in 
diameter, sessile in the furrows. Sepals one-third the © 
length of the corolla-tube, ovate,acuminate. Corolla between 
funnel- and bell-shaped, pale yellow red without, dark 
purple within, five-lobed above the middle ; lobes broadly 
triangular, acuminate, papillose within, spreading, tips - 
produced. Column small, dark purple; lobes of outer 
corona horizontal, deeply two-lobed ; lobes falcate, the tips 
of those adjacent pairs almost touching. Pollen-masses 
semicircular, gland minutely winged.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, lateral view of staminal column; 3, the same viewed from 
above ; 4, pollen-masses iall enlarged. 
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