Caralluma. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 875 
Succ. 23 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 22; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 116; 
Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 658; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 200, fig. 3292. 
Piaranthus ramosus, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2,359; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 664. 
Coast Recion: Riversdale or Ladismith Div. ; Karoo beyond Platte Kloof, 
around the Hot-springs, Masson. 
CentRAL Recion: Laingsburg Div. ; Zout Kloof and Karoo west of Laings- 
burg, Pillans, 131! between Ladismith and Laingsburg, Pillans! Prince Albert 
Div. ; near Grootfontein, Dickson (Barkly, 62)! Pillans! hill (Jacobs Kop ?) 
near Vlak Kraal (now Prince Albert Road Station), Barkly, 63! 
Described from living plants, and flowers preserved in fluid. 
2. C. mammillaris (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1902) ; 
plant $14 ft. high, branched in a bushy manner ; branches }—1} in. 
thick, irregularly or spirally 5-6-angled, armed with stout conical 
hard-pointed acute spines }—} in. long, glabrous, light green, faintly 
glaucous, with the apical half of the spines brown ; flowers in 
fascicles of 4-10 or more, along the grooves between the angles ; 
pedicels 1-1} lin. long, glabrous; sepals 1 lin. long, ovate, acumi- 
nate, glabrous; corolla glabrous and pale green outside, with the 
tips, margins and a stripe down the middle of the lobes and some 
dots on the tube very dark purple-brown ; inside minutely papillate- 
setulose on the lobes and upper part of the tube, rich velvety black- 
purple on the lobes, pale yellowish dotted with blackish purple in 
the tube, which is 2-3 lin. long and as much in diam. ; lobes 
erectly spreading, 7-9 lin. long, about 2 lin. broad at the base, thence 
gradually tapering to a very acute apex, longitudinally folded, with 
revolute margins; outer corona about as long as the staminal 
column, cupular, 10—15-toothed, glabrous, dark purple-brown ; inner 
corona-lobes }—2 lin. long, subulate or linear, acute to truncate, 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers and exceeding them, with 
more or less connivent-erect tips and a short dorsal projection at the 
base, adnate to the outer corona and forming 5 of its teeth, dark 
purple-brown. WN. E. Br. in Gard. Chron, 1892, xii. 370 ; Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1898, 477. Stapelia mammillaris, Linn. Mant. ii. 
216; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 310; Thunb. Prodr. 46; Fl. Cap. ed. 
1, ii. 166, and ed. Schultes, 239 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1287; Pers. Syn. 
Pl. i. 279 ; Poir. Encyel. Meth. vii. 384, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 393 ; 
Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 25 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 25; Decne in DC. 
Prodr. viii. 663. 8S. pulla, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 310, and ed. 2, 
ii. 92; Masson, Stap. 21, t. 31; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1288; Pers. Syn. 
Pl. i. 279; Poir. Encyel. vii. 385 ; Alg. Teutsch. Gart. Mag. 1818, 
233, t. 26; Bot. Mag. t. 1648; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841; Dietr. 
Syn. Pl. ii. 887. Piaranthus pullus, R. Br, in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 
23; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 44; G@. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 113. Decne in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 650. P. pulla, Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi.10. P. mam- 
millaris, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 114. Pectinaria mammillaris, Sweet, 
Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 357. Boucerosia mammillaris, N. E. Br. in Journ. 
