Tad. 7905. 

 HUERNIA concinna. 



Native of Somaliland. 



Nat. Ord. Asclepiadace^;. — Tribe Stapkliea'. 

 Genus Huernia, B. Br. ; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 784.) 



Huernia concinna; canlibus 1-2| poll, longis caaspitosis 5-gonis, spims ad 

 J poll, longis subulatis, floribus solitariis binisve, pedicelhs brevibus 

 glabris, corolla late campanulata extus g'abra alba intus ubique pro- 

 cessibus subulatis conspersa pallide salpburea punctis rubro-purpureis 

 maculata, lobis § poll, longis deltoideis a-uminatia purpureo-margmatu, 

 einibus latis Fundo apiculatis, coronas exterioris breviter 5-lobaa velutime 

 purpureas lobis transverse oblongis emarginatis, coronaa intenons lobia 

 late ovatis conniventibus flavis purpureo punctatis et marginatis. 



H. concinna, N.E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iv. p. 497. 



H. macrocarpa, Taubert in Gartenfl. 1895, p. 353, t. 1416, non alior. 



The genus Huernia, estimated in the " Genera Planta- 

 rum " in 1886 to contain eleven species, all South African, 

 Las been largely increased by recent discoveries in tropical 

 Africa, whence eight additional species have been described 

 by Mr. N. E. Brown in the very recently issued Flora of 

 that region ; and an Arabian congener, H. arabica, N. E. 

 Br., has added Asia to the geographical range of the genus. 

 II. concinna was. together with another new species (H. 

 Somalica, N. E. Br.) brought from Somaliland by Mrs. Lort 

 Phillips, and presented to the Cambridge Botanic Garden, 

 where it flowered in the midsummer of 1900, and was 

 described by Mr. N. E. Brown, whose description I have 

 followed above. The individual specimen is that here 

 figured, which was forwarded by Mr. Lynch to the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, in June, 1900. 



Vtscr. — Stems clustered, one to two and a half inches 

 long, five-angled, spiny; spines about a quarter of an inch 

 long, subulate. Flowers solitary or in pairs, on short, 

 glabrous pedicels. Sepals a quarter of an inch long, 

 gradually tapering from a broad base to fine hair-like 

 points, glabrous. Corolla broadly carnpanulate, about one 

 inch across, glabrous outside, smooth, yellowish white, 

 covered everywhere inside with bristle-like appendages, 

 pale yellow, dotted with purple-brown ; lobes about one- 



July 1st, 1903. 



