Huernia. | ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 921 
below, and the lobes are sometimes sprinkled with minute setules, 
elsewhere glabrous, pale yellow, thickly covered with rather large 
blood-red or deep crimson-brown spots, which are more or less 
confluent, producing a reticulated appearance, or sometimes the 
ring is entirely crimson; outer corona 10-toothed, purple-black, 
velvety ; teeth deltoid, acute, upturned ; inner corona-lobes reaching 
to about 3 of the length of the corolla-tube, subulate, acute, con- 
nivent over the style-apex at the lower part then widely diverging, 
with erect tips, red at the base, whitish, mottled with deep red 
above ; odour strong, putrid. Schultes, Syst. Veg. vi. 5; G. Don, 
Gen. Syst. iv. 112; Decne in DC. Prodr. viii. 651 ; Loud. Encycl. Pl. 
202, fig. 3343; N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t.1906. H. barbata, 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 485, not of Haw. Heurnia reticulata, 
Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 841; Dietr. Syn. Pl. ii. 887 ; K. Schum. in Engl. 
und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 280. Stapelia reticulata, Masson, Stap. 
9, ¢ 2; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 1294, and Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 287 ; 
Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 280; Poir. Encyel. vii. 390; Jacq. Stap. t. 8, and 
var. deformis, Jacq. Stap. t. 9; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii: 96 ; Bot. 
Mag. t. 1662. 8S. crassa, Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 3, 43, ex Haw. Rev. 
Pl. Succ. 199; Deene in DC. Prodr, viii. 663. 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. ; among rocks near Oliphant’s River, Masson, 
cultivated specimens ! on northern slopes of ridges near Clanwilliam, Pillans, 661 ! 
and without precise locality, Barkly ! 
Described from a living plant. 
23. H. zebrina (N. E. Br.) ; stems 2-3 in. high, 4—5 lin. in diam. 
without the teeth, 5-angled? green; angles compressed, with stout 
conical acute spreading teeth 2—24 lin. long; flowers 2 (or more?) 
together near the base of the young stems, successively developed ; 
pedicels 6-7 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 3-4 lin. long, spreading, 
subulate-acuminate from an ovate-lanceolate base, glabrous ; corolla 
14-1? in. in diam., puberulous on the lobes within, elsewhere 
glabrous ; tube very shortly campanulate, constricted and about 
} in. in diam. at the mouth; limb slightly saucer-shaped very 
abruptly spreading from the tube, raised around its mouth into a 
broad thick convex ring; lobes about 5 lin. long and } in. broad 
at the base, deltoid, very acute ; inner surface sulphur-yellow or pale 
greenish-yellow, marked with transverse purple-brown broken bands 
which pass into spots upon the smooth shining annulus, and in the 
only dried flower seen are very evident on the back of the lobes ; 
outer corona 5-lobed ; lobes contiguous, }—3 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, 
transversely oblong, subtruncate with a notch at the middle ; inner 
corona-lobes scarcely 4 lin. long, deltoid-lanceolate, acute, with a 
dorsal transverse ridge at the base, closely incumbent upon the 
backs of the anthers and not produced beyond them. 
EasTERN Recion : ‘‘received from my daughter-in-law at Eshowe, Zululand, 
_ but I have as yet had no particulars as to where it was found,” Mrs. K. Saunders ! 
A well-marked species, easily recognised by the zebra-like markings on the 
_ pubescent corolla-lobes. : 
