Huernia.} ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 915 
lines in the tube, the base of which is entirely dark purple and 
shining ; outer corona 5-lobed, with a small obtuse tooth alternating 
with the lobes, black ; lobes + lin. long, 1 lin. broad, transversely 
oblong, emarginate ; inner corona-lobes subulate, 1} lin. long, 
somewhat connivent-erect at the lower half, with diverging tips, 
dark purple-brown, not nearly reaching to the mouth of the tube. 
CenrraL Recion: Laingsburg Div. ; near Witte Poort between Laingsburg and 
Ladismith, Pillans, 667 ! 
15. H. brevirostris (N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vii. 780, 
fig. 124) ; stems crowded, erect or ascending, 1$-24 in. long, 4-1 
in. thick, acutely 4—5-angled, glabrous, glaucous-green, becoming 
dull-green or purplish with age ; teeth of the angles 1-1 lin. long, 
deltoid, acute ; flowers 3-6 in a fascicle, near the base of the young 
stems, successively developed ; pedicels 1-1 in. long, 1 lin. thick, 
often reddish-tinted, slightly glaucous ; sepals 1}-24 lin. long, 
lanceolate-subulate, glabrous ; corolla shortly and acutely pointed 
in bud, when expanded 1-1} in. in diam. ; tube short, globose- 
campanulate, about } in. long and 5 lin. in diam. outside, slightly 
constricted at (but not raised into a ring around) the mouth; lobes 
abruptly horizontally spreading and often recurved, x in, long, $ in. 
broad at the base, deltoid, very acute ; outside smooth, glabrous 
and often reddish-tinted or dotted with purple; inner face rough 
with numerous papille on the lobes and in the throat of the tube, 
where they are generally tipped with (but sometimes entirely with- 
out) a minute hair, pale yellow on the lobes, pinkish-white in the 
tube, evenly dotted in variable density with crimson except at the 
bottom of the tube, which is entirely crimson and very shining, 
sometimes with crimson or purplish tips to the lobes; outer corona 
black, subequally 10-toothed or with 5 deeply bifid lobes 3 lin. long, - 
with deltoid-oblong obtuse teeth; inner corona-lobes about 1 lin. 
long, subulate, with a transverse hump on the back at the base, 
incumbent upon the anthers and prolonged scarcely 4 lin. beyond 
them into connivent-erect tips, purple-brown or the upper part dull 
yellowish speckled with purple-brown. N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 
1908, xliv. 197-198, fig. 87; and Bot. Mag. t. 6379 ; Schlechter in 
Journ. Bot. 1898, 485. Heurnia brevirostris, K. Schum. in Engl. und 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 280. 
Var. 8, intermedia (N. E. Br.); corolla rugose with small conical papille 
within, except on the lower part of the tube, primrose-yellow with a minute 
purple dot at the tip of each papilla ; inside of the tube paler, with a light purple 
area at the base around the outer corona. 
Centra Recton : Graaff Reinet Div. ; dry rocky hills of Rynevelds Pass, near 
Graaff Reinet, 2700 ft., Bolus, 575! Pillans, 663! and cultivated specimens ! 
Var. 8 : Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Graaff Reinet, Pillans, 72 | 
Described from living cultivated plants. The very short tips to the inner 
corona-lobes are a marked character in this species. "Var. 8 seems intermediate 
between H. brevirostris and H. primulina, but is readily distinguished by the 
purple area at the base of the distinctly larger corolla-tube, which is absent in 
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