898 : ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). [ Hoodia. 
cup-shaped, about 1 in. deep, subtruncate at the margin with 5 
subulate or awn-like points 14-3 lin. long, glabrous, smooth, not 
papillate on the central part, light yellow or pale buff, sometimes 
tinged with pinkish or very pale purple; tube obsolete, represented 
by a slight depression from which the blackish corona is exserted 
or its margin resting upon the rim, when dried contained in a very 
small cup ; outer corona 13-2 lin. in diam., cupular, 5-lobed ; lobes 
1} lin. long, nearly 1 lin. broad, transverse, emarginate ; inner 
corona-lobes 2 lin. long, oblong, obtuse, closely incumbent upon the 
backs of the anthers and not exceeding them, dorsally connected to 
the inflexed sinuses of the outer corona; follicles 4-5 in. long, 
45 lin, thick, terete-fusiform, tapering to a beak, glabrous, smooth ; 
seeds 3-34 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, ovate, flat, with a slightly 
thickened margin, glabrous, smooth, light brown. N. H. Br. im 
Hook. Ie. Pl. under t. 1905, p. 3; K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, 
Pflanzenfam, iv. ii. 275; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 475. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Drége, 5617 ! 
CeNnTRaL Recion: Prince Albert or Beaufort West Div. ; Dwyka River and 
Uitkyk, Bain, 11! and cultivated specimens! near Grootfontein, Pillans ! 
Carnarvon Div. ; near Van Wyks Vlei, Alston in Herb. Pillans, 127 ! 
_According to Mr. Bain this is called ‘‘ Wolve n’Gaap” by the Hottentots. Both 
Sir Henry Barkly and Mr. Pillans state that this plant is 12-15 in. high, yet 
neither of the 4 living plants sent to England were more than half as tall, and 
Mr. Pillans speaks of it as ‘‘a stunted species.” Have two closely allied forms 
been confused? Specimens collected by Orpen at St. Clair near Douglas in 
Herbert Div., and distributed by MacOwan under no. 3397, may possibly belong 
to this species, but living material is needed to properly identify the plant. 
4. H. Pillansii (N. E. Br.); plant about 5-6 in. high, bushily 
branched ; branches 1-1} in. thick, with 15-18 tuberculate angles, 
whitish or glaucous-green ; tubercles tipped with a slender brown 
spine 3-44 lin. long; flowers 1-2 together ; pedicels not seen ; 
sepals 2-24 lin. long, ovate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla about 
21 in. in diam., apparently concave, with the margin obscurely 
pentagonal, with 5 awn-like points 14-2 lin. long, rough with small 
papille on the central part within, elsewhere smooth and glabrous, 
“salmon-coloured, with the centre a pretty peach-colour ” (Pillans) ; 
tube in the dried flowers a small cup about 2 lin. in diam., con- 
taining the corona, which in living flowers probably rises to the 
level of the mouth or beyond ; outer corona cupular, 5-lobed, with 
the lobes about } lin. long and 3 lin. broad, truncate, but appearing 
emarginate in dried flowers from the central part being slightly 
doubled inwards in the direction of their length, apparently dark 
purple-brown, as also the 3 lin.-long oblong-linear obtuse inner 
corona-lobes, which shortly exceed the anthers and slightly cross 
each other at the tips. 
Cxntnat Rucron : Prince Albert Div. ; Grootfontein, Pillans, 164! 
_ Described from living stems and dried flowers. Mt 
