908 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). [ Huernia. 
late, subulate-acuminate, glabrous ; corolla campanulate, a little 
contracted at the middle so as to resemble a wide-mouthed bell, 
14-1} in. in diam., with short slightly spreading or suberect lobes, 
outside prominently nerved, glabrous, pale greenish or yellowish- 
white; inside pale ochre-yellow or dull greenish-yellow, thickly 
covered with very minute dark purple-brown papille and small 
blood-red spots, which in the tube become confluent into irregular 
blotches that nearly cover it or suddenly pass into narrow trans- 
verse lines or belts, bottom of the tube entirely blood-red, limb and 
throat (but not the lobes) covered with stiff outstanding clavate 
purple hairs ; tube 2-1 in. long; lobes 3-4 lin. long and 4-5 lin. 
broad, deltoid, acute or subacuminate ; outer corona 5-lobed, black, 
with the central part purple-brown velvety ; lobes about 1 lin. 
long and slightly broader, subquadrate or transverse, bifid, with 
obtuse teeth or rarely subequally 3-toothed, at each sinus between 
the lobes is a minute tooth; inner corona-lobes 14-2 lin. long, 
subulate, with a dorsal ridge at their base, connivent over the 
style-apex at the lower half, then diverging with erect tips, 
dark purple-brown. Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 9; G. Don, Gen. Syst. 
iv. 113; Decne in DOC. Prodr. viii. 651 ; Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 
1898, 485. H. barbata, Fl. des Jard. iii. 161, t. 11, not of Masson. 
Heurnia clavigera, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 842; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887 ; 
K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii, 281. Stapelia 
clavigera, Jacq. Stap. t. 5; Haw. Syn. Pl. Succ. 26; Hornem. Hort. 
Bot. Hafn. i. 252; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. v. 233; Link, Enum, PI. 
Hort. Berol. i. 255. 8. campanulata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1661, not 
of Masson. 8S. clavata, Jacq. ea Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 664. 
Var. 8, maritima (N. E, Br.); stems 13-2 in. high, 4-6 lin. thick, acutely 
5-angled, light green, somewhat glaucous; outer corona ring-like, irregularly 
and minutely toothed (not lobed) at the margin, black ; otherwise as in the 
type. 
Coast Rearon: Var. 8: Mossel Bay Div. ; near Mossel Bay, Pillans, 703 ! 
CenTRaL Recron: Laingsburg Div. ; near Matjesfontein and along the road 
at Witte Poort between Laingsburg and Ladismith, Pillans, 59! 95! 600! and 
cultivated specimens ! 
Western Recron : Little Namaqualand, Templeman in Herb. Pillans, 95! 3 
Described from living plants; the variety maritima, may prove to be distinct ; 
I have not seen fresh flowers of it. 
4. H. decemdentata (N. E. Br.); sterfs not seen; pedicel 1 lin. 
long in the only flower seen (? perfect), stout, glabrous ; sepals 2 lin. 
long, 1-1} lin. broad, broadly ovate, shortly subulate-acuminate, 
glabrous ; corolla campanulate, about } in. in diam., without any 
constriction to the tube, subequally 10-toothed at the top, 
apparently very minutely papillate-asperate outside, inside with the 
basal part smooth and glabrous, above a belt about } in. broad 
densely covered with stout flattened clavate hairs }—1 lin. long, and 
_ the apical fourth of the tube and the teeth densely and minutely 
