TAB. ¥-eaU, 
HUERNIA SOMALICA. 
Native of Somaliland. 
Nat. Ord. AscLeriapE&.—Tribe STaPELieg. 
Genus Huernu, Br.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 784.) 
Hurrnta somalica; caulibus brevibus crassis pentagonis glabris pallide viridi- 
bus, angulis crassis grosse sinuato-dentatis, dentibus ad 3 poll. longis 
deltoideo-subulatis lateraliter compressis apicibus spinescentibus, floribus 
basin versus ramorum erratis breviter crasse pedicellatis, sepalis subulatis 
3-poll. longis, corolla tubo parvo subgloboso-campanulato glabro, limbo 
14-2 poll. diam. patenti-recurvo glabro fusco-purpureo remote 5-lobato, 
lobis deltoideis acutis ochraceis papillis rubris ornatis, sinubus latis 
medio dentiferis, coronz exterioris lobis subquadratis bifidis glabris san- 
guineis, interioris lobis late subulatis incurvis conniventibus Iluteis, 
antheraram loculis angustis pallidis, polliniis clavatis glandula bialata 
___ sessilibus. 
H. somalica, N.E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, Nov., 1898, p. 309. 
* 
The genus Huernia, Br., consists of about sixteen species 
of South African and Tropical African plants, distinguished 
from Stapelia chiefly by the toothed sinus of the corolla 
and adnate outer corona. Nine of these, including H. 
somalica, have been figured in this work, some of them 
under Stapelia. I am indebted to Mr. N. E. Brown for 
the following enumeration of them :—H. venusta, R. Br. 
(St. lentiginosa, Sims, ‘t. 509). #. campanulata, R. Br. 
( S.campanulata, Mass. t. 1227). H. clavigera, Haw. (as “ 
S. campanulata, Mass. t. 1661, and S. barbata, Mass. t. — 
2401). H. reticulata, Haw. (S. reticulata, Mass. t. 1662). 
H. Hystrie, N. B. Br. (S. Hystriz, Hk. f. t. 5751), H. brevi- 
rostris, N. E. Br. (t. 6379) ; all from South Africa; and 
H. oculata, Hk. f. (t. 6658), and H. aspera, NN. EB. 
(t. 7000), from Tropical Africa. 
Huernia somalica was brought from Somaliland by Mrs. 
Lort Phillips, who presented living specimens, both to the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, and to the Gardens of the University 
of Cambridge, with the information that it was called 
“Anahrob” by her Somali boy. It flowered for the first 
time at Cambridge in July, 1897, and in the following year 
at Kew. ‘The figure is of the Cambridge specimen. 
Aveust Ist, 1900. 
