918 ASCLEPIADE (Brown). . | Huernia. 
Hf, humilis, Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 54, is unknown to me, 
_ but it cannot be the same as H. humilis, Haw., the locality where it was 
collected (at the foot of the Houtboschberg Ranges, 5500 ft., in the Transvaal, 
Schlechter, 4761) is at least 600 miles distant from the home of the true 
H. humilis, and the colour of the flowers as described by Dr. Schlechter is totally 
different, varying between fiesh-red and brownish, with large purple spots on the 
lobes and limb, the annulus varying between rose-red and dark purple-red. 
18. H. ocellata (Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 9) ; stems acutely 4-angled, 
1}-2 in. long, 3-$ in. square, glabrous; angles with acute deltoid 
teeth 1-1? lin. long; flowers 2 (or more?) together near the base of 
the young stems; pedicels } in. long, glabrous ; sepals 3 lin. long, 
#-1 lin. broad at the base, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous ; corolla 
about 14-1} in. in diam. ; tube campanulate, about } in. long and 
as much or more in diam. at the mouth; limb saucer-shaped, lobed 
to half-way, very abruptly spreading from the tube and raised into 
a very conspicuous broad convex ring around its mouth, with 
ascending-spreading lobes, about } in. long and more than § in. 
broad at the base, broadly deltoid, acute; outside glabrous and 
smooth ; inner face smooth on the raised ring, densely and minutely 
papillate on the lobes and rest of the limb, with some stiff clavate 
outstanding hairs about } lin. long on the upper part of the tube, 
light yellow, marked all over with round crimson spots, those on the 
ring slightly raised; outer corona of 5 oblong deeply bifid lobes 
nearly | lin. broad, with parallel obtuse teeth, pale yellowish on the 
disk with dull red or crimson lobes ; inner corona-lobes 12 lin. long, 
subulate, acute, slightly gibbous at the base, connivent-erect 
at the lower part, then diverging with erect tips, whitish, spotted 
with purple-brown. G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 113; Deene in DO. 
Prodr. viti. 651; Schlechter in Journ Bot. 1898, 485. Heurnia 
ocellata, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841 (excl. syns. 8. guttata, Masson, and 
S. lentiginosa, Curt.) ; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887 (excl. syns.) ; K. Schum. 
ro Engl. und Prantl, Pllanzenfam. iv. ii. 281. Stapelia ocellata, Jacq. 
tap. t. 6. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimen ! 
Chiefly described from a dried specimen, which completely agrees with 
Jacquin’s figure. 
19. H. guttata (R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soe. i. 22); plant 2-3 in. 
high ; stems erect, 3-3 in. thick, acutely 4—5-angled, glabrous, green, 
glaucous? angles with acute deltoid slightly recurved teeth 1-14 lin. 
long ; flowers 1-5 together near the base of the young stems, 
developing successively ; pedicels rather slender, 3-3 in. long, 
glabrous ; sepals 24-3 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous ; 
corolla flat-topped and 5-angled in bud, with 5 short (incurved ‘) 
teeth at the angles and five prominent ribs radiating from the short 
central point, 14-1} in. in diam. when expanded ; tube campanulate 
_ or subglobose-campanulate, slightly constricted at the mouth ; limb 
_ saucer-shaped, lobed to half-way, spreading very abruptly from the 
