900 ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). [ Hoodia. 
ascending-spreading, somewhat pouch-like at the base, about 3 lin. 
long and 3 lin. broad, transversely subrectangular, emarginate or 
shortly and obtusely bifid at the apex, with inflexed sinuses between 
them, purple-black, with a shining linear space down the centre of 
each ; inner corona-lobes }—2 lin. long, linear, obtuse or truncate, 
incumbent upon the backs of the anthers and not exceeding them, 
dorsally connected to the outer corona at the inflexed sinuses 
between the lobes, purple-black; follicles 24-3 in. long, terete, 
fusiform, tapering to an acute beak, slightly hooked at the apex, 
smooth, glabrous ; seeds not seen. Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 665 ; 
N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1875, iv. 452, and in Hook. Ic. Pl. under 
t. 1905, p. 3; Dyer in Bot. Mag. t. 6228 (eacl. analyses), and Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xv. 252, t. 5, fig. 1; Gard. and Forest, x..75; K. Schum. 
in Monatsschr. Kakt. iii. 57, fig. excl. analyses ; Schlechter in Journ. 
Bot. 1898, 475. H. Gordonii, K. Schum. in Engl umd Pranil, 
Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 275, fig. 82, eacl. analyses. Stapelia Gordon, 
Masson, Stap. 24, t.40; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1285; Pers. Syn. Pl, i, 279 5 
Poir. Encycl. vii. 383; Kerner, Hort. t. 154; Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 
25; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 25. S. Gordonii, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 
840; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 886. Gonostemon’? Gordoni, Sweet, Hort. 
Brit. ed. 1,278. Monothylaceum Gordoni, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 116. 
Western Recon : Little Namaqualand ; near Henkries, 12 miles south of the 
Orange River, Barkly! also cultivated specimen! Great Namaqualand ; towards 
the Orange River, Gordon (ex Masson). 
Described from a living plant, sent by Sir Henry Barkly in 1874 from Little 
Namaqualand to Kew, where it flowered in August, 1875. The buds are 
wrongly represented in the Botanical Magazine from an immature example. 
Those on Masson’s plate, although rough, are more nearly correct, for as they mature, 
the parts of the corolla corresponding to the midribs of the lobes are folded in 
gti " the centre so that the bud appears to consist of 5 broad wings, truncate 
at the top. 
The specimens collected by Burke, hitherto referred to this species, belong to 
H, Burkei, N. E, Br. 
7. H. albispina (N. E. Br.); size of plant unknown, only one 
dried branch seen, 44 in. long, and ? in. thick, but evidently much 
shrunk in drying, with about 15 tuberculate angles ; tubercles 
tipped with a white spine 24-3 lin. long; pedicels very short, 2 lin. 
long in the specimen seen; sepals 2-3 lin. long, attenuate from a 
1 lin.-broad base, glabrous ; corolla 3-34 in. in diam., broadly cup- 
_ shaped, about 1 in. deep, with 5 very broad and slight crenations, 
each abruptly tipped with a subulate or awn-like point 14-2 lin. 
long, sprinkled and roughened on the central area within with small 
papille, otherwise glabrous and smooth ; corona apparently slightly 
exserted from the very small tube, very dark purple-brown ; outer 
corona cupular, with 5 transverse broadly emarginate or notched 
lobes 4—} lin. long and 1 lin. broad; inner corona-lobes scarcely 
} lin. long, oblong, obtuse, not exceeding the anthers and not nearly 
meeting at the tips. ; 
——» CENTRAL Rectoy ; Carnarvon Div. ; Van Wyks Vlei, Alston in Herb. Pillans, 18! . 
