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Tuber napiforme, 5 cm. diametro, pallide brunneum. Caules 
2-4, erecti, a basi saepe ramosi, minute puberuli pilis plus minusve 
reflexis. Folia elliptica vel lanceolato-elliptica, apice obtusa vel 
subacuta, basi in petiolum circiter 5 mm. longum angustata, 
2 cm. longa (petiolo excluso), marginibus leviter undulata, in 
pagina superiore margines versus hispidula, in pagina inferiore 
omuino hispidula pilis uncinatis instructa, nervis subtus promi- 
nentibus, supra impressis, nervis lateralibus utrinque 5-6 vix 
anastomosantibus. Flores in foliorum axillis 3-5;  pedicelli 
2mm.longi. Sepala lanceolata, acuta, 3 mm. longa, 1 mm. lata, 
puberula. Corolla extus fere glabra, viridis, tubo breviter campa- 
nulato, lobis patulis supra atropurpureis leviter corrugatis sub- 
carnosis pilis brevibus nitentibus instructis. Corona exterior 
nulla. Corona interior lobis 5 staminis oppositis truncatis vix 
2 mm. latis ex ore corollae tubi eminentibus parte superiore 
a Stamina flava, brevia, inflexa. Styli apex truncatus. 
H Arrica. Described from a plant cultivated at Kew and 
hisood originally from Pretoria 
1667. Huernia Hislopii, Turvill [Asclepiadaceae-Stapelieae] ; 
affinis H. barbatae, Haw., sed corollae lobis reflexis, tubo haud 
intus pilis longis instructo, coronae exterioris lobis angustioribus 
praecipue distinguitur. 
Planta a basi ramosa, circiter 5 cm. alta, ramis 5-angulatis 
inferne viridibus superne purpurascentibus glaucis glabris 1 cm. 
diametro ad angulos dentibus 3 mm. longis instructis. Flores 
solitarii; pedicellus 6 mm. longus, glaber. Sepala lanceolato- 
subulata, apice acuminata, 6 mm. longa, glabra. Corolla 
campanulata; tubus 1.6 cm. longus, inferne leviter ampliatus, 
superne contractus, extra albus, intra lineis atro-sanguineis 
instructus, fauce 1.1 cm. diametro, papillis subclavatis albis 
apice fusco-sanguineis praeditus ; limbus 5-lobatus, cremeus, 
maculis fusco-sanguineis numerosis. instructus, lobis deltoideis 
acuminatis 1.4 cm. longis papillosis valde reflexis, dentibus 
intermediis 3 mm. longis basi 2 mm. latis reflexis. Corona 
exterior lobis 5 oblongis 4 mm. longis 3 mm. latis atro-sanguineis 
et fere nigris apice truncatis breviter 3-4-dentatis praedita. 
Corona interior lobis 5 subulatis 4 mm. longis ad medium 
conniventibus superne divergentibus albis apice atro-sanguineis | 
instructa. 
Tropica, Arrica: Rhodesia, Hislop. Described from a 
living specimen grown in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
1668. Bowkeria citrina, ihe, [Scrophulariaceae-Cheloneae], - 
affinis B. velutinae, Harv. ex Hiern, sed foliis aureo-glandulosis 
parce puberulis minime vero velutinis, pedunculis~ brevioribus, 
calycis segmentis angustioribus lanceolatis-oblongis acutis vel 
‘acuminatis, corolla citrina distincta. 
rutex ramosissimus, 6—8-pedalis, fra agrans. Ramuli sub- 
teretes, ors or: glandulosique, selalendis foliis multo bre- 
