698 LXXXIII. ASCLEPIADE®. | Tavaresia 
t. 2 (1871); Bot. Mag. t. 6115 (1874). Stapelia (Heurnia) Welw. 
in Proceed. Linn. Soe. ii. p. 328 (7 Nov. 1854). 
Loanpa.—Stem low, creeping horizontally, widely cxespitose, 2 to 
4 in, high ; branches ascending or nearly erect, hexagonal ; the angles 
sharp, tuberculate ; the tubercles in dense rows, pyramidal at the 
base, tricuspidate ; the 3 teeth or prickles horizontally spreading and 
callous ; peduncles lateral, 1- to 2-flowered, corolla with a long tube 
and campanulate mouth ; fruit cylindrical-subulate, 4 to 5} in. long. 
In barren gravelly places above the city, very rare, fr. end of Oct. 1853 ; 
in poor pastures near Alto das Cruzes and Forte de Penedo, Dec. 1857 ; 
in gravelly maritime places near Loanda, fl. Dec. 1853 and Feb. 1854. 
No. 4262. Follicles geminate. Loanda, May. Couu. Carp. 734. 
29. HUERNIA R. Br.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 784. 
Heurnia Spreng. Anleit. ii, 1. p. 488 (1817); K. Schum. in 
Eng. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 280, fig. 84 F. (1895), 
There appears to be no doubt that Brown was mistaken as to the 
spelling of the surname of the missionary, Justin Heurnius: see 
Hermann in Hort. Lugd.-Bat. Cat. p. 54 (1687) and L. Diss. Pl. Rar. 
Afr, p. 3 (Dec. 1760). 
1. H. similis N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 265. 
Heurnia sp., Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii. p. 154 (Feb. 1859). 
Puneo ANDONGO.—A low, succulent, czspitose, persistent herb ; 
stems decumbent or ascending, sparingly branched, as well as the 
spreading branches herbaceous-green, tetragonal; the angles blunt, 
remotely denticulate ; the teeth (leaves ?) short, conical, from a broad 
base abruptly subulate, quite patent ; branches and branchlets brittle, 
subglaucous, mostly sub-horizontally spreading, together with the 
stems obliquely inclined, cxspitosely interwoven; flowers small, 
scentless, usually solitary or 2 to 3 together from the same axil; 
peduncles very short, springing from the axils of the teeth on the stem ; 
pedicels slender, 2 to 4, unequal in length, fleshy, reddish, 4 to 3 in. 
long, moderately thickened upwards towards the calyx ; calyx very 
deeply 5-cleft, almost 5-sepalous, sordidly lurid-purplish ; the segments 
from a broad base ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled ; corolla shortly 
campanulate, unequally 10-cleft, rather fleshy, lurid-purple outside, 
atropurpureous and papillose inside, whitish-rosy at the bottom around 
the included genitalia; the lobes of the sub-rotate limb alternately 
much shorter; the 5 larger lobes triangular-pointed ; the 5 smaller 
ones very short, dentiform, obtuse ; all quite patent at the time of 
the expanded flower ; staminal corona double, the outer whorl con- 
sisting of 5 fleshy deep saffron-yellow lanceolate obtuse horn-shaped 
scales, the inner whorl of 5 sub-cucullate simple much shorter 
scales, all undivided ; stigma green, somewhat pentagonal, flattened- 
muticous. On the mountain slopes of the presidium, growing in 
clefts of the more elevated rocks, not uncommon, near Cabondo, 
Catete, etc. ; fl. Oct. and Dec. 1856, Jan. to April 1857. No. 4264. 
30. STAPELIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 784. 
The following No. is, perhaps, a new species of this genus, 
belonging to the section Tromotriche; it is in fruit but without 
flowers :— 
MossaMEDES.—A succulent, leafless, perennial herb, 4 to 6 in. high, 
