| Tap. 7760. 
ECHIDNOPSIS BeNtTII. 
Native of Southern Arabia, 
Nat. Ord. AscLePIADEm#.—Tribe CEROPEGIE. 
Genus Ecurpnorsis, Hook. f.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 781 ) 
Ecutpnorsis, Bentii; caulibus fuscis 7-8-costatis costis mamillatis, mamil-. 
lis uniseriatis folio minuto ovato cuspidato concavo coronatis, floribus 
apices versus ramorum binis breviter pedicellatis, calycis segmentis del- 
toideo-ovatis glabris, corolla vix 34 poll. diam. extus viridi-purpureo 
maculata intus velutina saturate purpurea, tubo brevi campanulata, limbi 
patentis lobis late ovatis apiculatis marginibus revolutis, corona exteriore 
cupulari pentagona truncata purpurea angulis acutis parum productis, 
interioris lobis erecto-conniventibus breviter clavatis obtusis basi fundo 
exterioris adnatis. 
E. Bentii, N. ZL. Brown in Kew Bulletin, ined. 
The genus Hehidnopsis was established in this Magazine, 
tab. 5930, on a South African species, H. cereiformis, of the 
same habit as H. Bentii, but much larger, of a bright green 
colour, with yellow flowers. Recently other species have 
been added to the genus, one of which, #. Dammanniana, 
a native of Arabia, is, according to Mr. N. E. Brown, 
closely allied to H. Bentii, differing in the corona. 
EH. Bentii was found in Southern Arabia, the exact 
locality unknown, by the intrepid traveller whose name it — 
bears. It was sent to Kew by him shortly before his 
death, together with fragments of other plants collected 
during his last expedition, probably in the Hadramaut 
district, to the East of Aden. It flowered in a warm 
house of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in June, 1899. 
Descr.—Whole plant at present five to six inches high, 
consisting of a short stem, with ascending branches of a 
pale brown colour. Stem and branches one-half to three- 
quarters of an inch in diameter, the latter narrowing 
upwards, seven to eight-ribbed, each rib consisting of a 
single series of mamille, each of which is crowned by a 
minute, ovate, concave, cuspidate leaf, about one-twentieth 
of an inch long. Flowers in pairs towards the tips of the 
branches, very shortly pedicelled, half an inch in diameter. 
Calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla with a 
Fesrvaky lst, 1901. 
