890 ASCLEPIADEA: (Brown). [ Trichocaulon. 
10 lin. in diam., rotate, lobed to less than half-way down, with a 
very prominent raised ring forming a cup enclosing the corona on 
the disk, otherwise without a distinct tube, smooth and glabrous on 
the back, densely covered with conical papille all over the very 
dark purple-brown inner surface, except at the bottom of the cup 
around the corona, most of them with a minute hair directed at a 
right angle from their apex ; lobes 24 lin. long, 4-4} lin. broad, » 
very spreading, very broadly deltoid-ovate, shortly cuspidate-acute, 
with recurved margins ; outer corona large, nearly 2 lin. high, rising 
almost to the level of the rim of the cup, glabrous, very dark purple- 
brown, cup-like at the base, with 5 rather broad lobes, divided 
above their erect concave basal part into two sublanceolate 
diverging and obliquely recurved-spreading teeth % lin. long and 
4 lin. broad ; inner corona-lobes about } lin. long, linear or deltoid- 
linear, obtuse, dark-purple brown, closely incumbent on the backs 
of the anthers and equalling or slightly exceeding and incurved 
over their tips. 
CenTRAL Recton: Jansenville Div. ; Klippaat, Lee in Herb. Pillans, 1351! 
Described from a living plant, and flowers preserved in fluid, 
2. T. piliferum (N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn, Soe. xvii. 164, t. 11, 
fig. 1); plant 6-8 in. high, branching at the base ; stems cylindric 
or slightly clavate-cylindric, 14-2 in. thick, with about 25 vertical 
series of crowded tubercles, each ending in a stiff brown bristle 
2-3 lin. long, dull-dark-green, soméwhat glaucous ; flowers 1-3 
together in the grooves between the tubercles ; pedicels about 2 lin. 
long, glabrous; sepals 1-1} lin. long, subulate-acuminate from an — 
ovate base, glabrous ; corolla in bud somewhat flattened at the top 
and very abruptly cuspidate, when expanded }—3 in. in diam., 
glabrous and smooth on the back, densely papillate-tuberculate all 
over the limb and lobes on the inner face, not ciliate, dark purple- 
brown ; tube about 1 lin. long, cup-like, circular or subpentagonal 
at the mouth ; limb spreading, lobed to 3 of the way down, slightly 
raised around the mouth of the tube; lobes 2—3 lin. long and as 
much in breadth, broadly deltoid-ovate, cuspidate-acuminate into a 
short subulate point; outer corona apparently consisting of 5 
spreading deeply bifid (rarely entire) oblong, ovate or deltoid-ovate 
acute lobes about 2 lin. long, opposite the anthers, really formed by 
the widely diverging adjacent segments of 2 lobes being connate 
behind the inner corona-lobes for nearly half their length at the 
base or rarely up to the apex, glabrous, dark purple-brown ; inner 
corona-lobes 4 lin. long, linear, obtuse, closely incumbent on the 
backs of the anthers and shorter than them, dorsally connected at 
the base to the outer corona, dark purple-brown. Bot. Mag. t. 6759; 
_ K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, Phanzenfam. iv. ii. 275 ; Schlechter 
‘in Journ. Bot. 1898, 475. Stapelia pilifera, Linn. f. Suppl. 171 ; 
 -‘Thunb. Prodr. 46; Fl. Cap. ed. 2, ii. 165, and ed. Schultes, 239; 
Masson, Stap. 17, t. 23; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1286; Ait. Hort. Kew. 
