878 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [ Caralluma. 
glabrous ; corolla small, entirely glabrous and not ciliate, light green 
(or greenish-yellow ?), spotted with dark purple-brown, more thickly 
at the tips of the lobes ; tube 1-1} lin. long, apparently broadly and 
shallowly cup-shaped ; lobes 2—24 lin. long, 14 lin. broad at the base, 
deltoid-ovate, very acute or somewhat acuminate, probably spreading ; 
outer corona about equalling the staminal column, shortly cup-shaped, 
with 10 equidistant deltoid acute teeth } lin. long, glabrous, dark 
purple-brown ; inner corona-lobes about } lin. long, linear or linear- 
subulate, acute, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not 
produced beyond them, dorsally connected to the outer corona at 
the base, margined with (or entirely ?) purple-brown. 
WESTERN Reaion: Little Namaqualand, Z’empleman in Herb. Pillans, 8 ! 
7. C. parviflora (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 370) ; plant 
6-8 in. high, with several erect stems from the base, which bear a 
few very spreading branches ; stems and branches 4-angled, 5-7 lin. 
square, with conical acute spreading or slightly recurved teeth 14-2 
lin. long at the angles, glabrous, dull green or purplish ; flowering- 
cushions arranged along the grooves between the angles on the 
upper part of the stems, producing 1—3 flowers (annually ?) ; pedicels 
3—5 lin. long, curved downwards ; sepals about } lin. long, ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acute ; corolla drooping about } in. in diam. ; tube 
or united part scarcely 1 lin. long, apparently saucer-shaped ; lobes 
somewhat spreading, } in. long, ? lin. broad, lanceolate, acute, flat, 
rugose, ciliate on the margins, yellowish-green spotted with purple- 
brown. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 478 (excel. syn. C. dependens, 
N. E. Br.). Stapelia parviflora, Masson, Stap. 22, t. 35 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. 
i, 1283; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 278; Poir. Encycl. vii. 381; Ait. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2, ii. 89 ; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 24 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 24 ; 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887. Piaranthus parvi- 
jlorus, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 278; G. Don, Gen. Syst, iv. 113 ; 
_ Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 650. 
WESTERN Recion : Little Namaqualand, under shrubs, Masson, 
Only known from Masson’s figure and description. 
8. C. dependens (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1903, B) ; plant 
8-12 in. high, compactly branched ; branches erect, 4-angled, 5-9 
lin. square excluding the teeth, glabrous, at first dull green, tinted 
with purple, becoming pale grey or pale purplish-grey with age ; 
angles rounded, with stout conical horizontal or slightly recurved 
acute teeth 1-2 lin. long, which become hardened at the point ; 
flowers successively developed from very small flowering points 
arranged along the grooves between the angles which produce 
flowers for two or more successive years, pendulous and closely 
applied to the stems; pedicels 1-14 lin. long, abruptly bent 
downwards from their base, becoming erect and 4—5 lin. long 
in fruit, glabrous ; sepals # lin. long, lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; 
