Tab. 6348. 

 HOODIA Bainii. 



Native of Sout/i Africa. 



Nat. Ord. Asclepiadack^.— Tribe Stapei.ik.e. 



Genus Hoodia, Sweety (Bentk. etHook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 783 ; Dyer in Bot. 



Ma;/, sub tab. 6228 et in Journ. Linn. 8oc. vol. xv. p. 251.) 



Hoodia Bainii j ctespitosa, caulibus cactiformibus erectis cinereis tuberculis 

 transversim compressis in spinis fuscis desinentibns et in costas longitmli- 

 naliter dispositis crebre tectis, floribus 1-3 summis ramis aggregates pedun- 

 culis pollicaribus, sepalis lanceolato-subulatis, corolla cyatbiformi diametro 

 tri-pollicari pallida purpurascente-flavida venosa glabra margine dmtibus 

 quinque recui-vis, corona exteriore punicea lobis late oblongis obscure bi+idis. 



This very interesting addition to the Cape Flora was 

 originally brought by Mr. Thomas Bain from Uitkyk, 

 on the road through the Karroo to Beaufort West, in the 

 autumn of 1876, and given to Sir Henry Barkly with flowers 

 preserved in spirit (from one of which the corona in the plate 

 has been drawn). Subsequently Mr. M'Gibbon, the Curator 

 of the Cape Botanic Garden, obtained specimens of the same 

 plant from Mr. Lycett of Worcester, South Africa ; and one of 

 these was brought by the former to this country on his recent 

 visit, and presented to the Eoyal Gardens, where it flowered 

 in July of last year. From this the drawing for the accom- 

 panying plate has been made. 



Hoodia Bainii is, as Sir Henry Barkly has pointed out to 

 me, undoubtedly closely allied to //. Barhlyi, from which, 

 however, it seems to differ in its more robust habit, larger 

 flowers, and scarcely bifid corona. I may take this oppor- 

 tunity of putting on record the fact that the plant which 

 afforded the materials for my diagnosis of the latter plant 

 {Journ. Linn Soc. vol. xv. p. 252), was also brought from the 

 Karroo in 1873 by Mr. Lycett, and after flowering in the 



MARCH 1st, 1878, 



