Huernia. | ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown), 911 
8. H. Hystrix (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1876, v. 795) ; stems 
usually 2-3 (rarely, under cultivation, up to 5) in. high, 4-6 lin. 
thick, 5-angled, glabrous, pale green, very slightly glaucous, some- 
times tinted with dull purplish ; teeth conical, acute, very spreading ; 
flowers 2-5 together near the base of the stems, successively 
developed ; pedicels {-1}4 in. long, glabrous ; sepals 4 lin. long, ? lin. 
broad, subulate from an ovate-lanceolate base, glabrous ; corolla 
shortly pointed and with a small tooth at each angle in bud ; when 
expanded 1-1} in. in diam. ; tube short, campanulate, about } in. 
long and } in. in diam. outside ; lobes abruptly and_ horizontally 
spreading from the tube, with recurved tips, }-3 in. long and 
nearly as broad at the base, deltoid-ovate, acute ; outside glabrous, 
but minutely papillate, pitted, prominently 3-nerved on the lobes ; 
inner surface (except within the tube) covered with spine-like acute 
fleshy processes, ochreous-yellow, marked with crimson spots on the 
lobes and with numerous transverse crimson lines within the smooth 
and paler tube ; outer corona-lobes half as long as broad, truncate, 
broadly emarginate or obscurely 3-toothed at the apex, black 
(apparently yellowish in a dried flower of Wood 10813); inner 
corona-lobes 14 lin. long, erect, much exceeding the staminal column, 
linear, with a transverse thickening or ridge on the back below and 
expanded at the apex into a horizontally spreading process some- 
what resembling an inverted foot, yellow, dotted on the upper part 
with crimson. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 485.  Heurnia 
Hystrix, K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 280. 
Stapelia Hystrix, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 5751. 
EastERN ReGion: Natal; on mountains, cultivated specimens! Wood, 4118! 
Pillans, 25! near Weenen, 2000-3000 ft., Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 10813! 
Delagoa Bay ; growing in the shade of bushes, Mrs. Monteiro ! 
Described from living cultivated plants. 
9. H. loeseneriana (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 55) ; 
stems erect or ascending 1-24 in. long, acutely 4-angled, $—3 in. 
square, green, purple-tinted at the tips; teeth deltoid, acute, 
1-1} lin. long; flowers |—-2 together, near the base of the young 
stems ; pedicels 2—3 lin. (up to } in., Schlechter) long ; sepals } in. 
(4 in., Schlechter) long, subulate from an ovate base ; corolla campa- 
nulate, with the tube widening upwards and gradually passing into 
the spreading lobes, scarcely 1 in. in diam. (about } in. long and 
nearly 4 in. in diam., verrucose and brownish within, paler outside, 
Schlechter), very minutely asperate and brownish-purple outside, 
covered inside from the middle of the tube nearly to the tips of the 
lobes with short stiff compressed-conical obtuse processes, dull yellow, 
covered with very crowded narrow broken transverse lines and 
spots of dull brownish-crimson, and entirely of that colour at the 
base of the tube, but darker ; tube 4 in. long ; lobes } in. long and 
rather more in breadth at the base, broadly deltoid, very acute ; 
outer corona-lobes about } lin. long and broad, subquadrate, sub- 
