876 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). (Caralluma. 
Linn. Soc, xvii. 165, t. 11, figs. 5-13.—Stapelia aphylla ad nodos 
mammillaris, etc., Burm. Rar. Afr. Pl. dec. ii. 27, t. 11. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 1143! 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Diy. ; rocky hills near Olifants River, Thunberg ! 
near Clanwilliam, Pillans (ex Pillans), Worcester Div. ; Karoo, near Hex 
River, Thunberg ! lower slopes of hills east of Nuy, ex Pillans, hills north-west of 
Worcester, Pillans, 101! and cultivated specimens ! 
CentraL ReGion: Laingsburg Div. ; near Matjesfontein, ex Pillans. Prince 
Albert Div. ; near the Gamka River, Burke, 465! near Prince Albert, 2000 ft., 
Bolus (ex Pillans). 
Western Drv. : Little Namaqualand ; near Ookiep, 3000 ft., Templeman in 
Herb. Pillans, 1! Kamiesberg Range, Barkly, 30! 
Partly described from living plants. The corona is variable, especially in the 
length of the erect tips of the inner lobes, The odour of the flowers is extremely 
i ble. 
3. C. armata (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1902); plant 
robust, branching; branches 4-angled, 3-1 in. square exclusive 
of the teeth, glabrous ; teeth 1-1 in. long, stout, conical, with 
hard spine-like tips, horizontal or slightly recurved ; flowers in 
clusters of 8-10 (or more?) along the grooves between the angles 
of the branches, several open together ; pedicels 2 lin. long, stout ; 
sepals } in. long, lanceolate, acuminate ; corolla-tube about } in. long, 
campanulate, greenish-yellow ; lobes } in. long, about 2 lin. broad, 
somewhat spreading, lanceolate, acute, with the margins folded 
back, glabrous and not ciliate, greenish-white on the back, dark 
purple-brown or blackish-purple on the apical half of the inner face 
and greenish-yellow dotted with purple on the basal half; outer- 
corona about equalling the staminal column, cup-shaped, sub- 
truncate, with 5 slight and broad erose crenations opposite and 
raised above the base of the inner corona-lobes and 5 pairs of 
minute teeth alternating with them, alternately blackish-purple and 
purple-brown in colour ; inner corona-lobes linear-oblong, notched at 
the apex, closely incumbent on the anthers and not produced 
beyond them. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 477. 
WesTERN Reaton: Little Namaqualand ; at the foot of the Kamiesberg Range, 
Barkly, 47! 
4. C. Pillansii (N. E. Br.); plant }-1 ft. high, robust, with only 
1 rooted main stem, bushily branched; branches 3—1 in. thick, 
exclusive of the teeth, 4-angled, glabrous, dull green mottled and 
spotted with purple-brown; angles with stout much compressed © 
deltoid-conical teeth 1} in. long and (lengthwise of the stem) as 
much in breadth at the base, with short brown spine-like tips ; flowers 
several together in dense fascicles along the grooves of the stems, 
2-3 of each fascicle open together; pedicels 3-1 lin. long, stout ; 
sepals 1} lin. long, } lin. broad, ovate, acute or acuminate, glabrous ; 
corolla outside smooth, glabrous, whitish-green, dotted with purple- 
brown ; inside minutely tuberculate-rugulose, pubescent with short = 
_ purple hairs fixed in every posture and spotted all over with “purple- — 
