Caralluma. | ASCLEPIADE# (Brown). 879 
corolla in bud oblong, obtuse, pendant and closely applied to 
the stem, when expanded rotate, without any tube, with 
4 lobes reflexed and 1 (the lower) pressed against the stem, 2—2} 
lin. long, 1 lin. broad, oblong-linear, subacute, convex, glabrous 
and green, tinted with purplish on the back; inner face smooth, 
light yellowish-green, marked with transverse purple-brown lines on 
the disk and basal half of the lobes, dark purple-brown on the 
apical half, ciliate with long soft twisted or curly purple hairs ; 
outer corona-lobes erectly spreading, bifid to half-way down, basal 
part subquadrate, yellowish ; teeth subulate, acute, arching-divaricate, 
purple-black ; inner corona-lobes deltoid-subulate, acuminate, purple- 
black, closely incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not 
exceeding them ; follicles diverging, 34-5} in. long, about } in. 
thick, terete, tapering to an acute point ; seeds not seen. K. Schum. 
in Engl. and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 278. 
Coast Recton: Clanwilliam Div. ; Oliphants River, Hesse! near Clanwilliam, 
250-300 ft., Schlechter, 8017! Pocock in Herb, Pillans, 68! on a farm 20 miles 
west of Clanwilliam, Barkly, 78! and cultivated specimens ! 
Described from living plants which flowered at Kew and with me in 1877 and 
1906. 
9. C. inversa (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1903, xxxiii. 354) ; an 
erect branching plant similar to C. dependens; branches 4-angled, 
with conical spreading teeth; flower-cushions arranged along the 
grooves between the angles ; pedicels 1—2 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 
2-1 lin. long, lanceolate or deltoid-ovate, acute, glabrous ; corolla- 
tube about 1} lin. long, campanulate or funnel-shaped, glabrous, 
white at the base, spotted with purple-brown above and entirely 
purple-brown at the mouth within ; lobes about 2} lin. long, 1-1} 
lin. broad, oblong or linear-oblong, shortly acute, dark purple-brown 
on the basal half, rather deep grass-green on the apical half, not 
spotted, glabrous on both sides, ciliate from base to apex with long 
jointed purple hairs; outer corona-lobes }-3 lin. long, slender, 
linear-filiform, entire, obtuse, glabrous, purple-brown ; inner corona- 
lobes 1-4 lin. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, incumbent on the 
backs of the anthers and equalling or very slightly exceeding them, 
with a subquadrate or oblong projection about } lin. long on the 
back at the base, which is obtuse, emarginate or minutely 3-toothed 
at its apex, purple-brown. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div. ; without precise locality, Ayres in Herb. 
Pillans, 92! 
10. C. arida (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 369); stems 
erect, somewhat crowded, 2—24 in. high, 4-angled, about }—3 in. 
square, with conical acute spreading teeth 1-2 lin. long, glabrous, 
grey-green? flowering along the grooves between the angles at the 
upper part of the stems ; flowers solitary, erect; pedicels 3-4 lin. 
long, elongating in fruit; sepals lanceolate, acute ; corolla about 
