1 68 AsclepiadeCB. \Caralluma. 



sep. 5, narrow, glabrous ; cor. rotate, or very shallowly cam- 



panulate, lobes 5, narrow or broad, valvate ; column very 



small, stam. 5, adnate, short, pollen-masses i in each cell, 



nearly sessile, globose, corona (staminal) annular, with 10 



narrow lobes in pairs, and 5 broader and longer processes 



curving over top of anth. ; follicles long, linear ; seeds flattened, 



winged, comose. — Sp. 38 ; 10 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Boucerosia cannot be kept up as a genus distinct from Caralluma^ 

 though the inflorescence in our species differs characteristically. 



Fl. solitary, axillary i. C. fimbriata. 



Fl. umbellate, terminal . . . . 2. C. campanulata. 



1. C. fimbriata, Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 7 (1830). Mankalll, T. 



Stapelia adscendefts. Moon Cat. Add. (non Roxb.). C. a/tenuata, 

 Thw. Enum. 200; Trim. Syst. Cat. 56 (non Wight). C. P. 3304. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 76 (C. attetiuatd). Wall. 1. c. t. 8. 



Stems 3-9 in., decumbent at base, with many fibrous roots, 

 then erect, \ in. diam., bluntly quadrangular, smooth, suc- 

 culent, often slightly arched at summit; 1. minute on promi- 

 nences of the angles, lanceolate, apiculate, fleshy, soon falling; 

 fl. small, on short stout ped., solitary, axillary, nodding; cal.- 

 segm. lanceolate, acute, glabrous; cor. about \ in. diam., lobes 

 deep, lanceolate, very acute, reduplicate, upper half very 

 strongly ciliate, with long, stiff, bristly, deciduous, purple 

 hairs ; column depressed ; coronal lobes in divaricate pairs, 

 filiform, processes oblong, closely incurved over anth. ; follicles 

 4-4^ in., erect, linear, cylindrical, tapering, glabrous. 



Dry region, in arid stony places ; rare. Uma-oya (Thwaites) ; 

 Mannar District (Crawford) ; Panuwa Pattu, E. Prov. (Nevill). Moon's 

 locality is Tumpane. Y\. Feb., April, May, November; dark reddish- 

 purple, greenish-yellow in the tube. 



Also in S. India and Burma. 



The Ceylon plant agrees well with Wallich's plate, and not at all with 

 that of Wight's attenuata (Ic. t. 1268). The flowers are, however, a little 

 smaller. Said to be eaten by deer in the dry season in the Mannar 

 District, hence the Tamil name. 



2. C. campanulata, A'. E.Br, in Card. Chron. 1892, ii. 369 (1892). 

 Stapelia umbel lata, ^Ioon Cat. Add. (non Roxb.). Boucerosia 



umbellata, Thw. Enum. 200 ; Trim. Syst. Cat. 56 (non W. & A.). 

 C. P. 2861. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 77 (/>. umbellata). Wight, Ic. t. 1287 {B.canipanulaia). 

 Bot. Mag. t. 7274. 



Stems 6-12 in., ascending or erect, much branched, nearly 

 ^ in. diam., succulent, smooth, sharply quadrangular, the edges 

 undulate-serrate ; 1. minute at the serratures, oval, slightly 

 ciliate, succulent, soon falling; fl. large, 6-12, in a sessile 



