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in the living state as shown in the drawing; more probably they are 
connivent.—N. E. Brown. 
.—C. tivmaris. Fig. 1. Flower, natural size. 2. Flower, side view. 3 and 4. 
Corona, front and side views. 6. Pollinia. Figures 2 to 5 enlarged. 
’ B.—C. dependens, NV. H. Br. (n. sp.) ; erecta, ramosa, pedalis; ramis 
tetragonis, glabris, angulis spinoso-dentatis; floribus binis vel ternis, 
e sulcis inter angulos ortis, breviter pedicellatis, abrupte deflexis ; 
corolla rotata, 5 lin. diam., lobis anguste oblongis, subobtusis, 4 reflexis, 
1 ad caulem adpresso, glabris, ciliatis, apice fusco-purpureis, basi ]uteo- 
viridibus, fusco-purpureo transversim lineatis; segmentis coron® 
exterioris profunde bilobis, lobis subulatis, arcuato-divaricatis ; seg- 
mentis coron® interioris acuminatis, arcte incumbentibus. 
Has. From a farm 20 miles west of Clanwilliam, Barkly (No. 78). 
Plant bushy, about a foot high; stems erect, glabrous, 4~3 inch 
thick, 4-angled, angles rounded, with stout spine-like teeth, greyish 
s 
A remarkable plant, resembling that figured by Masson as Stapelia 
pruinosa in general habit, but the stems have much longer and stouter 
spine-teeth. The curious way in which the lower lobe of the penda- 
lous flowers 18 pressed flat against the stem, whilst the other four are 
reflexed, is different from that of any other species of the whole tribe 
known to me. e same 
less curved upwards. Whether the position of the coro]la, and the 
