888 _ASCLEPIADER (Brown). [ Caralluma. 
whitish ; inner corona-lobes 14-1} lin. long, linear-filiform or very 
slightly clavate, closely incumbent on the anthers at the base then 
connivent-erect above them, dorsally connected with the outer 
corona, dark purple-brown. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1897, 478. 
Stapelia aperta, Masson, Stap. 23, t. 37 ; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1285 ; Pers. 
Syn. Pl. i. 279; Poir. Encyel. vii. 383; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 90; 
Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 23; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 22; Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 838; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 116; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 885; 
Decne in DC. Prodr, viii. 658. Caruncularia aperta, Sweet, Hort. 
Brit. ed. 2, 359. Orbea? aperta, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 277. 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; near Kokfontein, south of Zwart 
Lintjes River, Masson, Kourkam, Rich in Herb. Pillans, 156! and without precise 
locality, Barkly, 19! 
In its stems and very long erect pedicels this plant closely resembles Stapelia 
pedunculata, Masson, but the corona is quite different. Described from living 
stems and flowers preserved in fluid. 
XLV. TRICHOCAULON, N. E. Br. 
_ Calyx 5-partite. Corolla with a short tube or the united part 
flattish or saucer-shaped, rarely with a raised ring on the disk, 
5-lobed ; lobes valvate in bud. Corona double, or sometimes the 
outer and inner corona apparently belonging to one series of 
5 shortly 3-toothed segments opposite the anthers ; outer corona of 
5 bipartite or bifid or emarginate lobes, with straight or divergent- 
arcuate segments ; inner corona-lobes incumbent upon the backs 
of the anthers and sometimes produced beyond them, dorsally 
connected at the base with the outer corona and sometimes 
produced into a short tooth there. Staminal column arising from 
the bottom of the corolla, short ; anthers inflexed upon the dilated 
part of the style, linear-oblong, without appendages. Pollen-masses 
ascending or subhorizontal, solitary in each anther-cell,  pellucid 
along the inner margin, attached in pairs to the pollen-carriers 
by very short caudicles. Style not exceeding the anthers, truncate 
at the apex. Follicles fusiform, smooth. Seeds crowned with a 
tuft of hairs, 
Succulent perennials, with thick cylindric leafless stems, having many vertical 
series of conical tubercles, tipped with a spine or a stout stiff bristle, or with 
crowded irregularly or spirally arranged short rounded pointless tubercles ; flowers 
rather small, arising between the tubercles at or towards the top or all over the 
stems, subsolitary or 2 or more together, successively developed. 
Distris, Species 10, one or possibly two of them also occurring in Tropical 
Africa and another endemic there. 
The various species of this genus are known by the name of (uaap and eaten 
by the Hottentot and Bushman races, and also used medicinally. I have also 
been informed by Sir Henry Barkly and Mr, Pillans that the stems, after having 
had their spine-tipped tubercles cut off, are sometimes preserved in sugar-syrup, 
_and are very pleasant to eat, — . re Je ie 
