922 ASCLEPIADEA (Brown). | Huernia. 
Imperfectly known species. 
24. H. stapelioides (Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 51, 55) ; 
stems erect, about 14 in. long and } in. thick, 4-angled, with 
spreading tubercles, glabrous; flowers few, in extra-axillary fas- 
cicles ; pedicels up to }$ in. long, glabrous ; sepals 3} lin. long, 
linear, very acute, glabrous ; corolla subrotate, scarcely 1} in, in 
diam., glabrous outside, densely verrucose within ; tube depressed ; 
lobes triangular, very acute ; outer corona-lobes divaricate, sub- 
quadrate, obtusely emarginate at the apex; inner corona-lobes 
filiform, thickened and verrucose at the reflexed apex, much over- 
topping the style-apex. Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 485. 
Katanart Recion: Transvaal; near Nazareth, between Houtbosch (Wood- 
bush) Mountains and Klipdam, 4500 ft., Schlechter, 4487. 
In a note the flowers are said to be brownish, paler outside. 
Stapelia fasciculata, Thunb., may belong to this genus, see Stapelia. 
XLIX. HUERNIOPSIS, N. E. Br. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla with a campanulate tube and 5 spreading 
or recurved lobes, without small teeth at the sinal angles. Corona 
of 5 simple lobes arising from the staminal column opposite the 
anthers and adnate to it at their basal half, free above, no outer 
corona. Stamens with their filaments connate into a tube around 
the ovary and adnate at the top to the dilated part of the style ; 
anthers free, erect or connivent-erect around and exceeding the 
small truncate style-apex. Pollen-masses solitary in each anther- 
cell, erect or ascending, pellucid along the inner margin, attached in 
pairs by very short broad cuneate caudicles to lateral processes of 
the pollen-carrier. 
A dwarf herb, with stout succulent 4-5-angled stems, flowering at the base, 
middle or towards the top. Flowers of moderate size. 
Distris. Species 1, also in South-west Tropical Africa. 
1. H. decipiens (N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xvii. 171, 
t. 12, figs. 9-13) ; stems decumbent, more or less clavate, 1—3 in. long, 
3-4 in. thick, obtusely 4-angled, with spreading teeth 1-1} lin. long, 
glabrous, dull green or purplish tinted ; teeth with a minute tooth 
on each side at the base of the ultimately marcescent tips ; flowers 
2-4 together at the middle or towards the top of the young stems, ~ 
opening successively ; pedicels 1-3 lin. long, stout, glabrous ; sepals 
oy in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous ; corolla in bud glabrous, 
ellipsoid, acuminate, 5-angled, when expanded about | in, in diam., 
glabrous outside and within, fringed at the base of the lobes with a 
_ few vibratile clavate dark purple hairs, outside pale greyish-green 
_ spotted and streaked with purplish-grey, inside brownish-red or rich 
