Caralluma, | ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). we 
brown on a purplish-grey ground” (Pillans) ; tube 2-3 lin. long, 
campanulate ; lobes slightly spreading, 4—5 lin. long, } in. broad, 
oblong or oblong-ovate, abruptly acute, with the sides folded back ; 
outer corona-lobes minute, about } lin. long and } lin. broad, trans- 
versely rectangular, shortly and acutely bifid or emarginate, dark 
purple-brown, glabrous; inner corona-lobes } lin. long, oblong, 
obtuse, erect, exceeding the erect anthers but not inflexed over 
them, with a small tubercle at the base where united to the outer 
corona, dark purple-brown ; staminal column and entire corona very 
dwarf, scarcely 1 lin. high ; style-apex not covered by the anthers. 
Coast Rraion: Robertson Div.; among bushes in Donker Kloof, near 
Montagu, Pillans, 678 ! 
Described from living stems, and flowers preserved in fluid. Mr. Pillans states 
that this plant is attacked by the larva of some insect, which eats the centre of the 
stems and so destroys large plants. 
5. C. intermedia (Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 478); stems or 
branches not seen, but according toa drawing, 5-6 in. long, 4-angled, 
about 4 in. square, with stout spreading acute teeth about 2 lin. 
long, glabrous, flowering along the grooves between the angles 
towards the top ; pedicels not seen, about } in. long in the drawing ; 
sepals about 1} lin. long, 1-1} lin. broad, broadly ovate, acuminate, 
glabrous ; corolla about 1 in. in diam., nearly flat, without a distinct 
tube, but with a depression in the disk, rugulose on the inner face, 
glabrous (ciliate ?), according to the drawing dull green spotted 
with purple-brown ; lobes 4-5 lin. long and { in. broad at the base, 
ovate or deltoid-ovate, acute ; outer corona-lobes 4—} lin. long, 3—} 
lin. broad, 3-toothed, with the middle tooth entire, crenulate or 
bifid, deltoid, much larger than the lateral teeth ; sometimes all 
connate into a cup above the attachment to the inner corona-lobes, 
with 5 large deltoid acute teeth alternating with 5 pairs of minute 
teeth ; inner corona lobes } lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, closely 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not, or scarcely, produced 
beyond them, dorsally adnate at the base to the outer corona. 
Stapelia intermedia, N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1910 A. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; Olifants River, Barkly 8! 
Of this plant I have only seen some dried flowers without pedicels, and a 
drawing made by Miss Barkly, from which latter I describe the stem and colour 
of the flowers. In my original description I stated that the lobes are ‘‘ciliate 
with vibratile, clavate, purple hairs,” but I am now inclined to think that the 
very few cilia adhering to the margins of the lobes may have accidentally got 
there from the flowers of some other plant. 
6. C. acutiloba (N. E. Br.) ; plant 6-8 in. high, bushily branched ; 
branches $—2 in. thick, 4-angled, with stout conical acute teeth 
2-21 lin. long, hardened at the apex, glabrous; flowering cushions 
oo arranged along the grooves between the angles, 1-2 (or more ?)- 
flowered ; pedicels about } lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 1-1} lin. Jong, 
