Echidnopsis.'] lxxxv. asclepiade.e (brown). 47 '> 



1. £!• cereiformis. Hook. f. in Hot. May. t. r)9;>0. Stems fleshy, 

 leafless, i-| in. thick, cylindric, obtusely 8-airgled ; angles tessellately 

 divided into obtuse tubercles, glabrous. Flowers fascicled near the 

 tips of the stems, subsessile, bright yellow. Sepals J- J lin. long, 

 broadly ovate, acute, glabrous. Corolla o^-4 lin. in diam,, rotate-cam- 

 panulate, fi-lobed to half-way down; lobes li lin. long, broadly ovate, 

 acute, glabrous. Outer corona none ; inner corona of 5 smooth fleshy 

 deltoid-ovate acute lobes, horizontally inflexed and incum])ent on the 

 backs of the anthers, yellow. — Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. I n tern a z. 

 1892, 349; Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 160, t. ?,, figs. ?> and D-lo. 

 E. tessellata, K. Schum.in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 274, and 

 in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 42. Apteranthes tessellata, Decne. in 

 Ann. Sc, Nat. 5 ser. xiii. 400. Stapelia qjlindrica, Ilort. ex Hook. f. 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 5930. Piaranthus fascicidaris, Hort. ex K. Schum. in 

 Monatsschr. fUr Kakteenkunde, 1893, iii. 101. 



Wile Xiand. Eritrea: near Geleb, Penzig (ex Penzig). Abyssinia: amonp: 

 rocks ill tlie district of Mascliila and in the vicinity of Dschedscha, Schimper (ex 

 Decaisne). Somaliland : in dry clialky soil near Passo di Cavernan (Carbedan), 

 Riva, 943 (ex Schtimann). Also cultivated specimens ! 



Described from living cultivated plants. 



Var. brunnea, Berger in Malpighiii, 1902, 160. Flowers purple-brown, paler 

 towards the centre; coronal-lobes yellow. No other distinction, — S. dammanniaua, 

 var. brunnea, Dammann, Cat. 1893, 46. 



XTile Ziand. Eritrea or Abyssinia : cultivated specimen ! 



Described from a living plant, introduced into cultivation by Messrs. Dam- 

 mann & Co. of Naples. 



Var. obsvura, Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 160. Flowers of an intense brown. 



isrile Iiand. Eritrea, Schiveinfurth (ex Berger). 



2. E. nubiica, N. E. Br. in Keio Bulletin, 1895, 203. Stems and 

 inflorescence as in^. cereiformis. Sepals i-| lin. long, lanceolate, acute, 

 minutely papillate on the back. Corolla rotate or rotate-campauulate, 

 1^-2 lin. in diam., 5-lobed to rather more than half-way down ; lobes 

 J— I lin. long, ovate, acute, glabrous, smooth within, minutely papillate 

 on the outside. Outer corona none ; inner coronal-lobes deltoid-ovate, 

 about \ lin. long, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and about 

 equalling them in length. Follicles attaining a length of 4 in. and a 

 thickness of 4 lin., purplish with darker markings. — Berger in Mal- 

 pighia, 1902, t. 3, figs. 11-12. E. dawmanniana, Schweinf. in Garten- 

 flora, 1895, 633, fig. 124-125, not of Sprenger. 



lUlle Z.and. Nubia: Mount Erkowit, near SUnkin, SchiceinfuHh, 22S 1 

 Eritrea : Geleb, Schweinf urth (ex Schweinf itrth). 



The flowers are much smaller than in any of the other species, and arc dcsrribcd 

 by Schweinfurth as purple-brown in colour, or dotted with piiri)le-brown on a 

 greenish ground. 



3. E. dammanniana, Sp-enger in Dawmann, Cat. 1892, 4,/<7. 5. 

 Stems like those of E. cereiformis, | to j in. thick, tessellately H-10- 

 angled, dull greyish- or purplish-green, glabrous. Flowers solitary or 



