Huernia.] ASCLEPIADEZ (Brown). 919 
tube and raised into a very conspicuous broad convex ring around 
its mouth, with ascending-spreading lobes, 4-5 lin. long and broad, 
deltoid, acuminate ; outside smooth and glabrous; inner face with 
some scattered fleshy spine-like processes (not hairs) 1} lin. long 
at the throat of the tube and around its mouth upon the otherwise 
smooth ring, minutely papillate on the rest of the limb and lobes, 
light yellow, dotted with crimson to the tips of the lobes; outer 
corona divided into 5 pairs of narrow acute teeth nearly 1 lin. long, 
light pinkish or whitish with purple margins to the teeth and a 
blackish ring at the base around the staminal column, enlarging 
into 5 rounded spots opposite the pairs of teeth ; inner corona-lobes 
about 14 lin. long, subulate, acute, connivent at the lower part over 
the style-apex, then rather abruptly spreading, with up-curved tips, 
apparently yellow. Bojer, Hort. Maur. 213; Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 
30; Allg. Teutsch. Gart. Mag. vii. t. 41; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 7 ; 
G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 113; DC. Prodr. viii. 651; Schlechter in 
Journ. Bot. 1898, 484. H. lentiginosa, Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 29; 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 6; G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 113; Deene in 
DC. Prodr. viii. 651. Stapelia guitata, Masson, Stap. 10, t. 4; 
Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1294; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encycl. 
Meth. vii. 390, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. 1. 395; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 
il. 96 ; Link, Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. i. 255. 8. venusta, Jacq. Stap. 
t. 7, and var. minor, t. 64, fig. 4; not of Masson. 8. lentiginosa, 
Curt. in Bot. Mag. t. 506; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 97; Poir. 
Encyel. Suppl. v. 234. 
SourH AFRiIca: without locality, Masson, cultivated specimens ! 
20. H. venusta (R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 22); stems erect 
or divaricate, 2-3 (or in cultivated plants sometimes up to 5) in. 
long, 3-1 in. thick, acutely 4—5-angled, glabrous, green, probably 
somewhat glaucous; angles compressed, with deltoid spreading 
teeth 1-1} lin. long ; flowers 1—2 together near the base of the young 
stems, successively developed ; pedicels about } in. long, glabrous ; 
sepals lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; corolla in bud somewhat turbinate, 
with a broad pentagonal flattened top, shortly pointed at the centre, 
5-toothed at the angles, glabrous, when expanded about 2 in. in 
diam. ; tube very shortly campanulate, glabrous within, blackish- 
purple or dark blood-red at the bottom; limb very abruptly 
spreading from the tube, saucer-shaped, raised into a conspicuous 
(smooth?) broad ring around the mouth of the tube, with very acute 
deltoid lobes about 6—7 lin. long and broad, glabrous, but probably 
minutely papillate on the inner face, sulphur-yellow, covered to the 
tips of the lobes with small blood-red spots. Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 
29; Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 6; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 202, fig. 3345; @. 
Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 112 ; Deene in DC. Prodr. viii. 651; Schlechter 
in Journ. Bot. 1898, 485. Heurnia venusta, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 
841 ; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887 (excl. ref. to Jacq.).  Stapelia venusta, 
Masson, Stap. 10, t. 3; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1294; Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; 
