Caralluma. ] ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). 885 
WESTERN ReGion: German South-west Africa; cultivated specimens (Pillans, 
14)! 
Mr. Pillans informs me that he does not know if this species comes from the 
Tropical or South-African part of the German colony, but believes that he also 
has the same species in cultivation from Prieska. 
18. C. lutea (N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1901); stems crowded, 
14-4 in. long, sharply 4-angled, }—} in. thick, excluding the teeth, 
glabrous, green, mottled with dull purple ; teeth }—} in. long, stout, 
acute, horizontal ; flowers 3—26 in a cluster at the middle or lower 
part of the young stems, mostly opening at the same time ; pedicels 
3-1 in. long, stout, glabrous; sepals 24-4 lin. long, lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; corolla 14-24 in. in diam., glabrous 
outside, rugulose within, yellow; tube or united part 3—4 lin. long ; 
lobes spreading, }-1} in. long, +4 in. broad, narrowly lanceolate, 
attenuate to an acute point, ciliate with vibratile clavate purple 
hairs ; outer corona cup-shaped with a recurved margin, consisting 
of 5 subquadrate contiguous lobes ? lin. long, | lin. broad, minutely 
toothed at the subtruncate apex and with several slight keels on 
the inner face, yellow; inner corona-lobes 1 lin. long, filiform, 
connivent-erect, dorsally connected with the sinuses of the outer 
corona at their base, where there is a short erect subulate tooth, 
yellow. WN. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 370; K. Schum, in 
Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 278 and 276, fig. 83, E-F ; 
Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 54, and Journ, Bot. 1898, 
477. 
Katawart Recon: Bechuanaland; Mafeking, Marloth, 4377! Griqualand 
West ; Klip Drift and Diamond Fields, Zuck in Herb. MacOwan, 2240! Bowker ! 
Barkly, 7! Dutoits Pan, Barkly, 40! near Vryburg, Miss Fry in Herb, Pillans, 
49! Kimberley, Mrs. Barber! near Douglas, ex Pillans. Transvaal, near 
Pietersburg, 4700 ft., Schlechter (ex Schlechter), Sanderson! Holub! 
Described from living plants, and flowers preserved in fluid. 
In a letter from Mrs. Barber concerning this plant, she states:—‘‘It is the 
commonest of all the family up here (Kimberley) and occurs upon nearly every 
grassy ridge upon the flats, and, although I have passed over acres of it, I have 
never yet met with a seed-pod ; the plant blossoms profusely in autumn.” An 
outline of the fruit, however, is represented on a drawing sent to Kew by 
Mrs. Barber, from which the follicles appear to be about 34 in. long, fusiform and 
moderately stout. The odour of the flowers is stated to be very fetid, like that 
of putrid fish. 
19. C. melanantha (N. E. Br.); stems decumbent at the base, 
2-23 in. high, }-1 in. thick, 4-angled, with triangular acute spreading 
teeth, glabrous ; flowers in sessile umbels of 6-10 towards the tips 
of the stems; pedicels about } in. long, glabrous; sepals 3} lin. 
long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla 2 in. in diam., rotate, 
lobed to the middle, densely transversely rugose on the inner surface, 
_ glabrous, ciliate with vibratile clavate hairs ; lobes about } in. long, 
in. broad at the base, ovate-triangular, acuminate ; outer corona- 
erectly spreading, connate at the lower half, semi-oblong 
