Tas. 8136. 
HOODIA Corrort. 
7 Angola. 
‘ ASCLEPIADACEAE. Tribe STAPELIEFAE. 
Hoopia, Sweet; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 783. 
Hoodia Currori, Decne in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 665; Hooker, Niger Fl. 
p. 458; Dyer in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xv. p. 251, t. 5, f. 2; N. HB. Br. in 
Hook, Ic. Pl. vol. xx. sub t. 1905, p. 3; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl 
Pflanzenfam. vol. iv. pt. ii. p. 275; N. H. Br. in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iv. 
pt.i. p. 491; Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. xl. p. 62, f. 27; affinis H. Gordoni, 
sed corolla majore intra pilosa facile distinguitur. 
Planta succulenta 45-60 cm. alta, basi ramosa, glauco-virens. Rami erecti, 
4°5-6°5 cm. crassi, multiangulati, glabri; angulis spinoso-tuberculatis. 
Flores magni, prope apicem ramorum enati. Pedicelli 18-2 em. longi. 
Sepala 6-8 mm. longa, e basi ovata subulato-attenuata. Corolla 9-12°5 
cm, diam., patelliformis, vix lobata, 5-cuspidata, purpureo-rubra disco 
radiato-ochracea, intra purpureo-pilosa; tubus 6 mm. longus, 8 mm. 
diam., circa orem leviter 5-tuberculatus. Corona exterior cupularis, 
5-sulcata, 10-dentata, glabra, purpureo-brunnea, dentibus deltoideis 
obtusis, 1 mm. longis. Coronae interioris lobi fere 1 mm. longi, oblongo- 
lineari, obtusi, antheris incumbentes, basi partitionibus cum corona 
exteriore connexi, purpureo-brunnei.—Scytanthus Currori, Hook. Ic. Pl. 
vol. vii. tt. 605-606; S. Burkei, Hook. Ic. Pi. vol. vii. sub ‘t. 625. 
Adenium namaquarium, Henslow in The Gardener, 1901, p. 1194, f. 16. 
This is the third out of the six described species of 
this remarkable genus that has flowered at Kew and 
been figured in the Botanical Magazine, the other two 
being H. Gordoni (t. 6228), and H. Bainit (t. 6348), 
whilst, so far as is known to me, no other specimens 
are recorded as having flowered in any part of the 
world outside their native country. In its stems H. 
Currori differs very little from H. Gordoni and some of 
the other species, but its flowers are larger than those of 
any other, and more hairy on the inner surface ; they are 
also more richly coloured than in the other two species 
which have flowered at Kew. ‘The specimen here figured 
was sent to Kew, in 19U5, from Angola, by Mr. J. Goss- 
weiler, Curator of the Botanic Garden at Loanda. At 
first it was subjected to dry treatment, but as this failed 
to induce active growth, it was placed in a moist stove, 
where it throve and flowered in June, 1906, the flowers 
lasting for about fifteen days. 
May Ist, 1907. 
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