Caralluma, with thirty-eight species. The genus is scattered 
over an area of the Old World extending from Spain and 
Northern and Southern Africa to Arabia and Northern and 
Western India, twelve species being British Indian. 
Wight gave no habitat of his B. campanulata, nor did he 
know its origin. His drawing was made from a dried 
specimen in his Herbarium, now at Kew, and was in all 
probability received from Ceylon, where (under the name 
of umbellata) Thwaites says it grows on rocks near Korne- 
galle. It is not known from Continental India. 
The plant here figured was received from the Royal 
Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya in 1890, and flowered’ in 
the Succulent House, at Kew, in July, 1892.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of angle of stem and leaf; 2, calyx; 3, column seen from 
above; 4, lobe of inner corona; 5, pollinia :—all greatly enlarged, 
