Huernia.| ASCLEPIADE (Brown), 913 
spreading abruptly from the tube, sometimes very slightly raised 
around its mouth, with recurving lobes 3-44 lin. long, 3-5 lin. 
broad, deltoid, variably acute, smooth and glabrous outside and 
inside, entirely sulphur-yellow to golden-primrose, without markings 
or a purple area around the corona ; tube 24-3} lin. long and as 
much in diam. outside, constricted at the mouth ; outer corona-lobes 
3-3 lin. long, subquadrate, bifid, crimson-black or purple-black ; 
inner 1-1} lin. long, subulate, acute, with a slight transverse 
dorsal ridge at the base, connivent over the staminal column, with 
erect points, purple-brown. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 485. 
Heurnia primulina, K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, Pfanzenfam. 
iv. ii. 280. 
Var. 8, rugosa (N. E. Br.); disk of the corolla-limb covered with small 
tubercles, which gradually decrease in size towards the tips of the lobes, H. flava, 
N. £. Br. in Kew Rep. 1878, 7, name only. 
Coast Recion: Albany Div, ; Brak Kloof, near Grahamstown, Mrs. Gloheta, 4! 
along the railway between Alicedale Junction and Grahamstown, Pillans, 12! 
Var. 8: Albany Div. ; dry stony places near Hell Poort, Cawoods Hole and 
other places near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 910! Pillans, 43! and mixed with 
the type, Barkly, 13! Queenstown Div., Barkly, 13 bis ! 
The acumination of the buds and intensity of the colour of the corolla is 
variable. Mr. Pillans informs me that when alive ‘the stems of var. rugosa are 
distinguishable from the type by their larger size and darker colour.” 
12. H. simplex (N. E. Br.) ; stems erect, 14-2 in. high, sharply 
4—5-angled, glabrous, apparently glaucous-green; teeth spreading, 
7-1 lin. long, compressed-deltoid; flowers 3 or more together, 
successively produced near the base of the young stems ; pedicels 
about } in. long, apparently rather slender, glabrous ; sepals 1}-13 
lin. long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla (of dried 
flowers) about 1 in. in diam., glabrous and smooth outside and 
within the tube, minutely papillate-puberulous on the inner surface 
of the lobes, “yellow, spotted with rosy in the centre” (Miss 
Thomson); tube about } in. long and 4 in. in diam., broadly 
campanulate ; lobes about } in. long and as much in breadth at the 
base, deltoid, very acute or acuminate, apparently spreading ; outer 
corona none; inner corona-lobes arising at the middle of the 
staminal column, their basal half adnate to it as vertical semi- 
terete ridges between the pairs of anther-wings, and dilated into 
a transverse ridge or truncate rim at the top, upper half free, 
connivent over the anthers, }—} lin. long, } lin. broad at the base, 
flat, tapering to the acute apex; staminal column 1 lin, long, 
broadly conical at the basal half. 
Centrat Recion : Victoria West Div. : near Gert Adriaans Kraal, Miss Hester 
Thomson in Herb, Galpin, 3056 ! 
The absence of an outer corona distinguishes this from all other species of 
Huernia. This character, taken alone, would place it in the genus Huerniopsis, 
but the inner corona and habit are so unlike that of the latter genus and go 
exactly as in Huernia, that I regard it as a member of that genus with the outer 
corona undeveloped. : 
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