884 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [Caralluma. 
not ciliate, rich blackish-purple or “very deep maroon” (Marloth), 
with the base of the tube and a zone at its middle white or whitish ; 
tube 2 lin. long, 2 lin. in diam. at the mouth inside, campanulate or 
cup-shaped ; lobes ascending-spreading, 5—7 lin. long, 1}~-2 lin. broad 
at the base, thence tapering to the acute apex, with reflexed or 
replicate margins ; outer corona somewhat saucer-shaped at the 
base, with 5 pairs of minute acute teeth about } lin. long, with or 
without 5 other obtuse teeth (formed by the connection with the 
inner corona-lobes) alternating with them, yellowish, with purple 
tips to the teeth ; inner corona-lobes } lin. long, oblong or linear- 
oblong, obtuse, subtruncate or emarginate at the apex, closely 
incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and shorter to longer than 
them, but not turned up at the tips, dorsally connected at the base 
to the very short cup of the outer corona, yellowish, more or Jess 
marked with purple-brown on the margins and dorsal projection ; 
follicles very slightly diverging, 5}-6} in. long, } in. thick, linear- 
terete, tapering at the base and into an acute apex, smooth, 
glabrous. 
Cenrrat Recion: Laingsburg Div.; near Matjesfontein, in soft sand 
accumulated under bushes, Pillans, 44! 62! Prince Albert Div.; near Prince 
Albert, Marloth, 4581! 
Mr. Pillans notes that the plants sometimes spread to a diameter of 2 ft., 
having in some cases very robust stems. 
17. C. longicuspis (N. E. Br.); “plant 2-3 in. high ; stems erect, 
decumbent or descending underground, 14-6 in. long, }—} in. thic 
(Pillans), 4-angled, with slightly concave or grooved sides, greyish- 
green (greyish-blue, Pillans) mottled with brown, angles rounded, 
with conical acute deciduous grey teeth 1-1} lin. long; flowers in 
fascicles of 3-10, thickly distributed along the sides of the stems 
from the top to near the bottom, developing successively, erect ; 
pedicels 2-24 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 1} lin. long, lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla comparatively large, 
glabrous and greyish-green outside, inner surface densely and very 
minutely papillate, with a very minute ciliation at the base of the 
lobes, otherwise glabrous, “pale purple merging into purple in the 
tube” (Pillans), drying dark purplish-olive-brown ; tube 2 lin. long 
and 4 lin, broad, shortly funnel-shaped ; lobes erectly spreading, 
3] in. long, 24-23 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, with recurved 
margins ; outer corona dark purple-brown, shortly cupular at the 
base, 20-toothed, with the 5 pairs of teeth opposite the corolla-lobes 
3 lin. long, faleate-subulate, with the tips widely diverging, and the 
- 5 alternating pairs (really short bifid projections from the base of 
the inner corona-lobes) very much shorter, straight and contained 
between the adjacent teeth, whose tips arch over them; inner 
corona-lobes 24 lin. long, linear-lanceolate and closely incumbent at 
the base on the backs of the anthers, produced beyond them into 
long filiform tips connivent into an erect slender column, dark 
