Cape Botanic Gardens, damped off as these plants are un- 

 happily too apt to do in cultivation ; it has apparently not 

 since been found. 



Sir H. Barkly informs me that Hoodia Bainii is known 

 locally as Wolves' n J Guaap, the name n' Guaap being also 

 given to Stapelia pili/era, Thunb. 



Desce. Stems numerous from the crown, ashy-green in 

 colour, erect, cylindric, leafless, younger portions with 

 closely-set spirally-arranged laterally-compressed tubercles, 

 ultimately confluent into more or less marked prominent 

 longitudinal ridges ; tubercles tapering into a stout sometimes 

 deflexed brown prickle. Flowers produced near the apex of 

 the branches, 1-3 together ; buds acutely pentagonal ; pedicels 

 about an inch long. Calyx short, five-partite ; segments acumi- 

 nate. ^ Corolla about three inches in diameter, pale buff-yellow 

 becoming purplish in decay, cup-shaped, margin with five 

 recurved teeth the apices of the obsolete lobes. Corona 

 double ; exterior spreading, adnate to the staminal tube by 

 five vertical septa, five-lobed, lobes broadly oblong, concave, 

 obscurely bifid ; interior of five narrowly oblong incumbent 

 scales adnate to the septa and the base of the anthers. 

 Anthers short, oblong, inappendiculate, incumbent on the 

 stigma, and half immersed in it. Stigma flattened at the apex. 

 Pollen-masses erect.— W. T. Thiselton Dyer. 



Fig. 1. Apex of stem with unopened bud, natural size ; 2, gynostemium from 

 above ; 8, pollen-masses : — both magnified. 



