882 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). | Caralluma. 
the backs of the anthers and slightly exceeding them, dorsally 
produced at the base into a short horizontally spreading truncate 
or rounded ridge or crest, blackish. Schlechter in Jowrn. Bot. 1898, 
478. Stapelia pruinosa, Masson, Stap. 24, t. 41; Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. 
1287 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 91; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 279 ; Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vi. 35 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 840; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886 ; 
Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 657; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 200, fig. 3317. 
S. bruinosa, Poir. Encycl. vii. 384. Tromotriche pruinosa, Haw. Syn. 
Pl. Suce. 37 ; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 119. 
WestERN Recion: Little Namaqualand, Masson, Pillans, 21! 
Described from dried specimens. 
14, C. incarnata (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 369) ; a 
bushy plant a foot or more high; branches erect, }—j in. thick, 
4-angled, with stout conical spreading teeth 1}—2 lin. long, hardened 
at the tips, glabrous, greyish-green (subglaucous?); flowering- 
cushions small, arranged along the grooves between the angles, 
producing “ usually solitary ” (Masson), “ 4-nate” (Thunberg) flowers, 
probably for 2 or more years in succession ; pedicels }—} lin. long, 
glabrous ; sepals about ? lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
glabrous ; corolla pale pink varying to white (Masson), with a few 
hairs around the mouth of the tube and at the very base of the lobes 
within, otherwise glabrous and not ciliate ; tube about 1 lin. Jong, 
campanulate ; lobes ascending-spreading, 1}-1} lin. long, 4-3 lin. 
broad at the base, probably larger when alive, linear-lanceolate, 
subacute or obtuse, convex from the sides being reflexed or recurved ; 
outer corona-lobes about } lin. long, erect or ascending-spreading, 
subquadrate, bifid, with a broad notch between the teeth, not 
exceeding the staminal column, “ yellow” (Z'hunberg) ; inner corona- 
lobes } lin. long, linear-subulate, acute, incumbent on the backs of 
the anthers and slightly exceeding them. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1898, 478. Stapelia incarnata, Linn. f. Suppl. 171; Thunb. Prodr. 
46 ; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 167, and ed. Schultes, 240 ; Masson, Stap. 22, 
t. 34; Willd. Sp. Pl.i. 1289; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 279; Poir. Encyel. 
Meth. vii. 386, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 392; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 
ii. 92 ; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 24 ; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 23; Spreng. 
Syst. Veg. i. 840; Loud. Encyel. Pl. 200, fig. 3294 ; Dietr. Syn. rm 
ii. 886. Podanthes incarnata, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2,358. Piaranthus 
incarnatus, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 114; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 650. 
Boucerosia incarnata, N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 166, t. 11, 
figs. 14—17.—Euphorbium erectum, quadrangulare, spinosum, &c., Burm. 
Rar. Afr. Pl. Dee. i. 15, t. 7, fig. 1. 
Var. B, alba (N. E. Br.); plant branching near the base with branches 3-6 
in. (or more?) long, 4-1 in. thick, erect, dark green with a greyish powdery 
covering ; flowers 3-5 together, developing in succession, pedicels and _ sepals 
about 1 lin. long; corolla pink on the tube and_ lobes outside, uniformly 
creamy-white inside, covered on the very base of the lobes and upper part of the 
tube with small stiff pink hairs; tube 1-2 lin. long; lobes 3-5 lin. long, 
- 3-1 lin. broad at the base, linear, acute, with recurved margins; outer and 
