874 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Caralluma. 
Corolla pale yellow, without spots ; lobes 
with some rather long erect hairs at their 
base and a few minute hairs at their tips (11) simulans. 
Pedicels 4-2 lin. long, longer in fruit : 
Corolla-lobes pubescent all over the inner face, 
dark purple-brown ... se iii ... (18) prainosa. 
Corolla-lobes glabrous on the inner face, except 
sometimes at the very base: 
Corolla-lobes ciliate with long soft purple 
hairs ; 
Corolla-lobes yellowish-green with trans- 
verse purple-brown lines on the basal 
half and entirely purple-brown beyond (8) dependens. 
Corolla-lobes purple-brown on the _ basal 
and green on the apical half, not 
spotted ... Ls Be ee ... (9) inversa. 
Corolla-lobes not ciliate : 
Corolla-lobes sublinear or linear-lanceolate, 
pale pink (or whitish ?), not spotted... (14) incarnata. 
Corolla-lobes ovate or narrowly deltoid- 
linear, pale yellowish or pale greenish- 
yellow, not spotted... kas ... (12) Hottentotorum 
Corolla-lobes deltoid-ovate, very acute, light 
green or greenish-yellow, spotted with 
purple-brown ... bee sie ... (6) acutiloba. 
1. C. ramosa (N. E. Br. in Hook. Te. Pl. t. 1904); plant about 
1 ft. high, rather densely and bushily branched, glabrous, pale 
greyish-green or somewhat glaucous, shaded with purple ; branches 
erect, 4-1 in. or more thick, 4-angled and 4-grooved ; angles thick, 
obtusely rounded, crenate, but scarcely toothed, except at the tips 
of the young branches ; flowers in small fascicles along the grooves 
between the angles; pedicels about 1 lin. (in fruit becoming 3—4 
lin.) long, glabrous ; sepals 1-1} lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; 
corolla small, glabrous outside ; tube about } in. long, campanulate, 
minutely pubescent around the mouth and apparently whitish within ; 
lobes 24-3 lin. long, lanceolate, acute, replicate, with a rather acute 
ridge down the face, glabrous and blackish-purple on the inner face, 
not ciliate ; outer corona-lobes minute, less than } lin. long, broader 
than long, bifid, pouch-like at the base ; inner corona-lobes nearly 
4 lin. long, linear or linear-subulate, closely incumbent upon the 
backs of the anthers and slightly exceeding them, with a slight dorsal 
transverse ridge at their base ; follicles erect, subparallel or very 
slightly diverging, 2-2? in. long, } in. thick, terete-fusiform, tapering 
to an acute point, glabrous, pale green ; seeds 2} lin. long, 1 lin. 
broad, irregularly and narrowly ovate-oblong, deeply concave from the 
very thick margins being incurved on one side, very convex on the 
other, not rugose, brown. WN. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 370 ; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot, 1898, 477. Stapelia ramosa, Masson, Stap. 
21, t. 32; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1288; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 279; Poir. 
Encycl. Meth. vii. 385 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 91; Haw. Syn. Pl. 
