situations in Sicily, Spain, and the Algerine coast; whilst 
A. maroceana inhabits the much lower latitudes of Mogado 
in Maroceo. Here it was found on the rocky islet of 
Mogador by Messrs. Maw, Ball, and myself, and also else- 
where along the coast near the town, and introduced into 
Kew, where it flowered in July. 
The genus Apteranthes is merged in Boucerosia (itself pos- 
sibly referrible to Piaranthus) by Bentham in the forth- 
coming volume of the Genera Plantarum. 
Descr. Branches prostrate, six to ten inches long, by about 
one broad, 4-sided, the sides deeply sunk, the angles cut into 
broad subtriangular lobes, with an acute sinus, one-half to 
three-quarter inch long. eaves on the angular summits 
of the lobes of the stem-angles, one-tenth inch long, trowel- 
shaped, contracted at the base, ciliolate. Mowers two to six 
in an umbel, pedicel one-quarter inch long, and subulate 
calyx-teeth green. Corol/a one-half to two-thirds inch diameter, 
spreading, 5-lobed to about the middle; lobes triangular, 
subacute, quite glabrous, pale green outside, dark red-purple 
within streaked transversely towards the base and around the 
cup with yellow ; tube densely villous. Crown of 5 inflexed 
processes that cover the staminal crown, and 10 erect 
capitate processes in pairs between the inflexed ones. — 
J.D. A. 
5 Fig. 1, Leaf; 2, outside, and 3, inside view of corolla; 4, gynostegium ; 
9, pollen-masses :—all magnified. 
