Caralluma) LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADEZ. 697 
26. CARALLUMA R. Br. ; Benth. & Hook, f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 782. 
Boucerosia Wight & Arn.; Benth. & Hook. f., lc. Quaqua 
N.E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1879. ii. p. 8, ¢. fig. 1, p. 9 (5 July 1879). 
1. C. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 
A fleshy, broadly czespitose, leafless herb, softly but obsoletely 
pubescent, with the habit of Boucerosia umbellata Wight & Arn. 
(Wight, Ic. t. 495); stem prostrate, rooting, branched from the 
base, branches sub-tetragonal, ascending, 2 to 3 in. long, thick, 
succulent, club-shaped, the angles on the upper part armed with 
broad thick teeth which terminate in cartilaginous rather blunt 
straight or slightly decurved tips ; flowers clustered at and near 
the apex of branches, sub-umbellate, 6 to 10 together ; peduncles 
rather thick, succulent, glabrous, longitudinally ribbed, 2 to 1 in, 
long, bracteate at the base; bracts lanceolate-subulate, glabrous, 
about + in. long; calyx 5-partite, with Jlanceolate-subulate 
glabrous segments rather more than + inch long ; corolla dusky 
red, slightly herbaceous, deeply 5-lobed, 13 to 2 in. long; the 
lobes lanceolate-linear, (in their dry state) 14 to 14 in. long, 3- to 
5-nerved, thinly or obsoletely pubescent on the back, nearly 
glabrous and rugulose on the front, somewhat spreading ; the 
tube about 3 in. long, sub-hemispherical ; staminal corona in two 
whorls, glabrous, the outer one having 5 pallid short very obtuse 
excise revolute lobes, the inner one of 5 longer dusky stout- 
subulate suberect ligules about } in. long. 
Huriyia.—In fl. Dec. 1859. No. 4266. 
This is allied to C. lutea N. E. Br., a plant of extra-tropical South 
Africa, and crossing into the tropics in the Transvaal ; it is, however, 
distinguished from the latter by the characters of the corona, the 
colour of the flower, etc. 
27. HOODIA Sweet; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. 11. p. 783. 
1. H. parviflora N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 265. 
MossaMEDES.—A fleshy, cactus-like shrub ; stems numerous, czespi- 
tose, mostly strictly erect, many-angled, whitish-chestnut or rosy in 
colour, 2 to 5 ft. high, flowering in an umbellate manner at the apex ; 
angles spiny ; spines chestnut-rosy ; flowers chestnut-dusky in colour, 
scentless, campanulate-rotate ; follicles semi-cylindrical-conical, flat on 
the face, approximated. In elevated rocks composed of mica-schist, 
about 1500 ft. alt., near Pomangala, and in dry places in front of 
Quitibe de Baixo, fl. Oct. 1859: also at Cavalheiros, fl. 23 Aug. 1859. 
No. 4265. Stem like a Cereus in shape, 13- to 15-angled, czspitose, 
4 to 7 ft. high. In rocky places above Pomangala; fr. Oct. 1859. 
Eaten and considered delicious by the negroes. CoLu. Carp. 35. 
According to a ms, note of Welwitsch, this plant occurs also in 
Huilla. 
28. TAVARESIA Welw. in Bol. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. 1854, 
No. 7, p. 79, n. 4 (August 1854). 
Decabelone Decaisne (1871); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 784. 
\ 1. T. angolensis Welw., /.c. 
Decabelone elegans Decaisne in Ann. Se. Nat., ser. 5, xiii. p. 404, 
