906 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [Huernia. 
contraction at the middle, thence gradually passing into the broadly 
funnel-shaped limb and spreading lobes; outside smooth, pale 
greenish, spotted with purple; inside minutely papillate, bearded 
with stiff clavate purple hairs at the throat of the tube, whitish or 
pale sulphur-yellow, marked with raised blackish-purple or blackish- 
crimson spots, passing into transverse lines in the tube, which is 
entirely dark purple at the base; lobes 5-6 lin. long and about as 
broad at the base, deltoid, acuminate ; outer corona-lobes much 
broader than long, subtruncate, emarginate, blackish, shining ; 
inner corona-lobes subulate, acute, connivent over the style-apex, with 
recurved tips, slightly gibbous on the back at the base, dark purple. 
Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 28 ; Allg. Teutsch. Gart. Mag. 1818, 17, ¢. 2; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 5; Loud. Hort. Brit. 97, and Encyel. Pl. 202 ; 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 112; DO. Prodr. viii. 651; Schlechter in Journ. 
Bot. 1898, 484. Heurnia campanulata, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841; 
| Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887 ; K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 281. Stapelia campanulata, Masson, Stap. 11, t. 6; Willd. Sp. 
Pl. i. 1293; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; Bot. Mag. t. 1227; Jacq. Stap. 
t.1; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 95; Poir. Encycl. vii. 389, and in 
Dict. Sc. Nat. 1, 394. 
_Var. 8, denticoronata (N, E. Br.) ; outer corona-lobes as long as broad, deeply 
divided into two acute lobes, dark purple-brown, paler at the base. 
SoutH Arrica: in dry regions, Masson. 
Cextrat Reaion: Var. 8: Prince Albert or Laingsburg Div. ; near Laings- 
burg, Pillans, 157 ! 
: H. campanulata, Sprenger in Monatsschr. Kakt. iv. 37, which I have not seen, 
is evidently, from the description, not the same as H. campanulata, R. Br., and 
probably belongs to H. barbata, Haw., or its variety tubata, N. E. Br. 
2. H. barbata (Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 31); stems erect, 1}-2} in. 
long, 4-3 in. thick, acutely 4-5-angled, glabrous, glaucous-green ; 
angles with spreading deltoid acute teeth 1} lin. long ; flowers 2 or 
more, successively developed near the base of the young stems; 
pedicels 1-1 in. long, rather slender, glabrous; sepals about } in. 
long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous; corolla acutely pointed and 
pentagonal in bud, when expanded 14-2 in. in diam., campanulate, 
with ascending-spreading or gradually recurving lobes, glabrous and 
without spots outside, clear or dirty sulphur-yellow to pale buff on 
the inside, marked on the lobes and upper part of the tube with 
blood-red dots, which pass into transverse interrupted lines on the 
lower part of the tube, covered from the middle of the tube to the 
base or to 3 of the way up the lobes with long stiff clavate purple 
hairs, which become minute upon the lobes, each seated on a purple- 
brown papilla, with the tips and margins of the lobes papillate ; 
tube 2-1 in. long ; lobes }—3 in. long and nearly as broad, deltoid, 
acuminate ; outer-corona 5-lobed, blackish or blackish-crimson ; 
lobes subquadrate, emarginate or shortly and obtusely bifid ; inner 
corona-lobes 14-2 lin. long, subulate, slightly gibbous at the base, — 
