47 G Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [Eckldnopsis. 



2-5 together, subsessile, but the pedicels lengthening to 1 lin. long in 

 fruit. Sepals | lin. long, ovate-acuminate, glabrous, very minutely- 

 papillate. Corolla rotate, ^5^ lin. in diam., dark purple-brown on the 

 lobes, yellowish with dark purple-brown dots on the disk; lobes 1 J lin. 

 long, 1 lin. broad, ovate, acute, glabrous, papillate outside. Outer 

 coronal-lobes small, spreading or deflexed, concave, tooth-like or with 

 the sides more or less pinched together at about the middle, dark 

 purple-brown, glabrous ; inner coronal-lobes J lin. long, deltoid, acute, 

 incumbent on the backs of the anthers, dark purple-brown, glabrous. — 

 Wiener 111. Gartenzeit. 1892, 351, fig. 59 ; Gartenflora, 1892, 526, .fig. 

 107 ; N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1894, xvi. 530 ; Penzig in Atti Congr. 

 Internaz. 1892, 349; Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 101, t. 3, fig. 13-14. 

 E. dammaniana^'K. Schum. Monatsschr. fUr Kakteenkunde, iii. 101, 

 and in Engl, tt Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 274 (not of Schweinf urth). 



irile Iiand. Eritrea : cuUicated specimeti / frequent around Geleb, Penzig 

 (ex Penzig). 



Described from a cultivated plant introduced by Messrs. Danimann & Co. of 

 I^aples. 



Specimens collected by Schweinfurth & Riva (1273) on the north side of 

 Saganeiti towards Selet, 6000-7000 ft., in Eritrea, niiiy belong to this sjiecies, but 

 there are no fiowers on the specimens I have seen. Po-sibly the Geleb plant col- 

 lected by Penzig (whicli I have not seen) may be JE. nubica, N. E. Br., which is 

 easily distinguished by its very much smaller flowers. 



Probably Boiicerosia cyVindrica, Brongn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, vii. 90O, 

 should be referred to this species ; it was collected by Courhon near Halai, in 

 Eritrea. 



4. E. Virchowii, K. Schtcm. Monatsschr. filr Kakteenkvnde, iii. 

 98, ic'ith fiy. Habit and general appearance as in E. cereiformis, Hook 

 f., but more slender. Stems 3J-5 lin. thick, 6-angled, tessellately 

 divided into slightly pronounced tubercles. Flowers subsessile, flat- 

 topped in bud. Sepals about h lin. long, ovate, acute, minutely papil- 

 late. Corolla about 3|- lin. in diam., rotate, 5-lobed to half-way down, 

 outside minutely tuberculate, dingy green or dull purplish, inside very 

 minutely papillate, either entirely dull greenish or yellOwish-green, 

 dotted with purple-brow^n or with the apical part of the lobes entirely 

 dull purple-brown ; lobes about 1 lin. long and broad, ovate, acute. 

 Outer corona distinct, cupular, rising to the level of the inner, 

 obscurely 5-angled, with 5 small minutely apiculate pouches alternating 

 with the angles, which are opposite the inner coronal-lobes, dark purple- 

 brown, with the inside of the pouches yellowish, spotted with purple- 

 brown ; inner coronal-lobes deltoid, acute, obtuse or minutely and 

 irregularly toothed or bifid at the apex, horizontally incumbent on the 

 backs of the anthers and not produced beyond them, dark purple-brown 

 indistinctly mottled with dull yellowish. — K. Schum. iii Engl. Pfi. Ost- 

 Afr. C. 328, and in Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 276, fig. 83, B ; 

 Berger in Malpighia, 1902, 162, t. 3, tig. 15-16. Virchowia africaiia^ 

 Vatke ex K. Schum. Monatsschr. fiir Kakteenkunde, iii. 101. 



