grows in a dry district, and requires similar treatment to 
that given to C. stapelixformis. 
Descr.—A bushy succulent, with many stems from 
the base, almost leafless. Stems erect, and about a foot 
and a half high, but according to Mr. Delmard some- 
times six feet, simple or repeatedly forked, half to three- 
quarters of an inch thick, jointed, cylindric, glabrous, 
whitish. Leaves very few, only occasionally developed, 
three-quarters to one inch and a half long, linear-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, dark green. Flowers in fascicles at 
the nodes, produced for two or more years in succession, 
erect. Bracts minute, deltoid-ovate, acute, glabrous. 
Pedicels a sixth of an inch long, glabrous. Sepals very 
small, acute, glabrous. Corolla about an inch and a third 
long, dull reddish-brown, glabrous outside; lobes and 
mouth of the tube glabrous within, with a faint purple 
bloom; tube thinly hairy inside, and white or very pale 
yellowish, nearly an inch long, a sixth of an inch in 
diameter at the swollen base, slightly bent and cylindric 
above, widening into a funnel-shaped mouth; lobes above 
half an inch long, deltoid-lanceolate, tapering into slender, 
linear tails, at first connate at the tips, sometimes more 
or less free and spreading. Corona light yellow; outer 
lobes very short, adnate to the base of the inner lobes, 
subquadrate, shortly bifid, glabrous, inner lobes twice 
as long, filiform, connivent at the base over the anthers 
and style-apex, glabrous. follicles about six inches long, 
a quarter of an inch thick, terete, tapering from about 
the middle to a blunt point, glabrous, light olive-green, 
speckled with brown.—N. E. Brown. 
Fig. 1, apex of a young stem with leaves, from Mr. Delmard’s drawing; 
2, flower-bud ; 3, corona; 4, corona with one lobe removed and the side ones 
pushed back a little to show the anthers, which are opposite the corona- 
lobes; 5, pollen-masses :—figs. 2-5, enlarged. 
ERRATUM. 
Tab. 8058. In lines 23 and 28 of description, for F. scardica read 8. scardica. 
