Huerniopsis. } ASCLEPIADE (Brown). 923 
brownish-crimson, more or less mottled with yellow, the intensity of 
colour varying even in flowers of the same cluster; tube 4—5 lin. 
long, and as much in diam., campanulate ; lobes 4—5 lin. long, 3-4 
lin. broad at the base, deltoid-ovate, acuminate or very acute, 
recurved ; corona-lobes about 2} lin. long, very stout, nearly square | 
in transverse section at the lower adnate part, with subulate acute 
connivent-erect tips much exceeding the anthers, purplish on the 
back and at the apex, yellowish on the slightly concave sides below 
the middle. K. Schum. in Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 277 ; 
Schlechter in Journ. Bot. 1898, 476; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. iv. i. 499. 
Sour Arrica: without locality, MacOwan, 2246! and cultivated specimens ! 
Katanart Recion: Griqualand East; near Griquatown, Pillans, 1313! near 
Douglas, Pillans. Bechuanaland ; near Vryburg, Miss Fry in Herb. Pillans, 122! 
Also in Tropical German South-west Africa. 
Described from living plants. Under cultivation the flowers emit their very 
nauseous odour most strongly during the evening, the next morning it has almost 
disappeared, so this plant is probably fertilised by a late-flying insect. The 
corona-lobes secrete a sweet fluid copiously upon their backs and sides. 
L. DIPLOCYATHA, N. E. Br. 
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube campanulate, with another tube 
arising from its base within, reaching to the mouth and there 
thickened into a recurved rim ; limb very spreading, 5-lobed, valvate 
in bud. Corona double, arising from the staminal column ; outer of 
5 broad bifid lobes connate at the base; inner of 5 ovate lobes 
incumbent on the backs of the anthers and dorsally adnate at the 
base to the outer corona, Stamens with their filaments connate 
into a tube around the ovary, and adnate above to the dilated 
top of the style; anthers subhorizontally inflexed upon the truncate 
style-apex. Pollen-masses solitary in each anther-cell, subhorizontal, 
with a pellucid submarginal line along the inner margin, attached 
in pairs by exceedingly short broad caudicles to (or subsessile upon) 
the rather large lateral wings of the pollen-carriers. 
A dwarf succulent leafiess perennial ; stems. decumbent, stout, 4-angled, 
acutely toothed ; flowers large, pedicellate, arising from near the base of the 
young shoots. 
Distris. Species 1, endemic. 
1. D. ciliata (N. E. Br. in Journ. Linn. Soe. xvii. 168, t. 12, 
figs. 1-3) ; stems decumbent and ascending, 14-2} in. long, 4-3 in. 
thick, exclusive of the teeth, obtusely 4-angled, with stout conical 
acute teeth 2-3 lin. long, glabrous, green, mottled with purple ; 
flowers subsolitary from near the base or middle of the stems; 
pedicels 6—8 lin. long, erect, glabrous ; sepals about } in. long, ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous; corolla about 3 in. in diam., | 
