_ @ Species well defined.” or 
910 ASCLEPIADE& (Brown). [ Huernia. 
as much in diam. outside ; lobes abruptly and horizontally spread- 
ing from the tube, recurved, 5-6 lin. long, 3-3} lin. broad at the 
base, whence they gradually taper to a fine acuminate point, glabrous 
outside ; inner surface covered on the lobes and in the throat of 
the tube with small fleshy terete obtuse erect processes }—} lin. 
long, smooth in the lower part of the tube, pale yellow, becoming 
pinkish-cream in the tube, covered with small crimson spots and the 
tips of the processes also crimson; outer corona 5-lobed, black or 
purple-black ; lobes about ? lin. long and broad, subquadrate or 
oblong, very shortly and obtusely bifid to acutely bifid to the 
middle, when the whole appears to consist of 5 pairs of small deltoid 
teeth ; inner corona-lobes about 1 lin. long, connivent-erect, with 
very slightly spreading tips, dorsally flattened, linear, slightly 
humped at the base, minutely papillate at the obtuse slightly 
thickened apex, dark purple-brown ; staminal column about 1} lin. 
long. 
CrntraL Rucion : Laingsburg Div. ; stony places near Matjesfontein, Pillans, 
23! Marloth, 3308! and cultivated specimen! Prince Albert Div. ; near Prince 
Albert, Bolus (ex Pillans). 
This is one of the most distinct species of this genus, no other having similar 
stems, which resemble those of a Z'richocaulon in miniature. The flowers are 
somewhat like those of H. Hystrix. 
7. H. distincta (N. E. Br.) ; plant densely tufted; stems erect, 
2-3 in. long, }—} in. thick, at first distinctly 8-9-angled, but with 
age the angles become very obtuse and scarcely prominent, formed 
of series of conical acute spreading teeth 1-2 lin. long, along the 
then nearly cylindric stems, glabrous, green, not glaucous ; flowers 
1 (or probably more) at the base of the young stems ; pedicels 4—} 
in. long, glabrous ; sepals 2—3 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous ; 
corolla about 1} in. in diam. ; tube campanulate, } in. long and as 
much in diam. outside, i in. in diam. at the mouth inside ; lobes 
horizontally spreading or recurved, 44-5 lin. long and as broad at 
the base, much smaller in dried flowers, deltoid, very acute ; outer 
surface glabrous; inside thickly covered from the middle of the 
tube to the tips of the lobes with small columnar papillz terminated 
by a short stiff crimson hair-point, pale dull yellow, dotted with 
crimson, the spots fusing into short regular or irregular and laby- 
rinthine lines on the smooth glabrous basal half of the tube ; outer 
corona-lobes ? lin. long, 1 lin. broad, subquadrate or transverse, 
subtruncate and entire to shortly bifid, with an acute notch between 
the rounded teeth, intense blackish-crimson ; inner corona-lobes 
1} lin, long, subulate, erect, connivent at the middle, with slightly 
spreading tips, dark purple-brown. 
CuntraL Reoion: Laingsburg Div. ; near Matjesfontein, Pillans, 83! 
Described from a living plant. Mr. Pillans states, ‘‘Of this I have only been 
able to find one large clump. It seems to me to be a natural hybrid between 
H. Pillansii and H. clavigera, which bound it on both sides. Nevertheless it is 
