Bchidnopsis.] lxxxv. asclepiade^ (brown). 477 



IMEozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Usnmbara ; Tanga, cultivated 8i)C'ci- 

 mcu, Hildehrandt ! 



Described from a living plant cultivated at Kew. 



5. E. somalensis, N. E. Br. Stems cylindric, 4-S in. long. i-J 

 in. thick, tessellately G-8-angled, dull green, glabrous. Flowers solitary 

 or 2-3 together, subsessile. Sepals h lin. long, ovate, acute, very 

 minutely papillate. Corolla rotate-campanulate, about 'H lin. in diam., 

 dull purple-brown, variegated with yellow on the lobes, yellow, spotted 

 with purple-brown on the disk; lobes spreading, It^-lJ lin. long, \\ 

 lin. broad, ovate, acute, minutely tuberculate on the back, covered with 

 minute conical acute or almost bristle-like papilla on the inner face. 

 Outer coronal-lobes overtopping the inner corona, J lin. long, very 

 narrow, linear, obtuse, ascending-incurved, channelled down the inner 

 face, dark purple-brown, glabrous; inner coronal-lobes about J lin. long, 

 deltoid-oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, incumbent on the backs of 

 the anthers and not exceeding them in length, greenish. 



irile Iiand. British Somalilaud : without precise locality, cultivated speci- 

 men, Mrs. Lort- Phillips ! 



Described from a living plant. 



Imperfectly knovm species. 



G. E. cylindrica, K. Schum. in Emjl. d- Prantl, Pfanzevfam. iv. 

 ii. 274. Stems cylindric, as thick as the little finger ; tubercles marked 

 with a white point. Flowers small, crowded at the ends of the branches, 

 subsessile. Corolla-lobes ovate-deltoid, subacuminate, yellow, densely 

 mottled with fuscous (purple-brown ?). Coronal-lobes ovate. Anthers 

 truncate^ destitute of a membrane. — Apteranthes ajUndrica, Decne. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 ser. xiii. 406. 



irile Kand. Abyssinia: Samen ; Xaliia, in the district of Masclula, Schiniper 

 (ex Decaisne). 



I have not seen this plant. Decaisne states that it differs from ApterantJies 

 tessellata (JE. cereiformis) in its longer branches, which are almost destitute of 

 areolae, and in the rather larger flowers. It may be the same as E. certiforuiis, var. 

 brunnea, Berger. 



49. CARALLUMA, R. Br. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. ii. 7Si>. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla rotate, broadly cup-shaped or with a 

 distinct campanulate or subglobose tube, 5-lobed ; lobes varying from 

 broadly ovate to linear-attenuate, valvate in bud. Coiona double, 

 arising from the staminal- column ; outer corona .sometimes annular or 

 cup-shaped, entire, crenulate, denticulate, 5-10-(rarely 20) toothed or 

 lobulate, adnate to the backs of the inner coronal-lobes at their ba.se 

 or connected to them by narrow partitions ; sometimes of 5 lobes more 

 or less adnate by their margins to the sides or backs of the inner 

 coronal-lobes forming 5 small pouch-like cavities alternating with the 

 anthers, or spreading, rarely quite free to the base, usually more or less 



