Caralluina.] lxxxv. asclefiade.*: (brown). 481 



1-2J lin. long, lanceolate-attenuate, with a few minute hairs on tlie 

 back. Corolla G-8 lin. in diam., rotate, 5-lobed to half-way down, 

 blackish-purple ; lobes 2^-3 lin. long and the same in breadth, broadly 

 deltoid-ovate, acute, glabrous on the back, rugulose, sparsely covered 

 with long purple hairs or sometimes glabrous on the inner face, ciliate 

 with similar vibratile hairs. Outer corona arising I lin. above theb.-ise 

 of the staminal-column, cup-shaped, witli 5 pairs of diverging-arcujite 

 subulate teeth |^-| lin. long, more or le>8 pubescent, purple-biown ; 

 the two teeth belonging to each of the five united lobes that form t lie 

 cup rather wide apart at the base, and sometimes with a minute tocth 

 between them ; inner coronal-lobes linear, obtuse, incumbent on tlie 

 backs of the anthers and not exceeding them, dorsally ndnate to the 

 outer corona, purple-brown. Follicles 5-0 in. long, 3-4 lin. thick in 

 the dried state, apparently subterete, acuminate, erect and suVjpaiallel. 

 Seeds 5 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, deeply channelled down the fjice, fiom 

 the broad margins being strongly incurved, smooth, glabrous, brown. — 

 C. respiciens, K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 27 S ; 

 and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 42. Desjnidorchis retrosjyicieiis^ 

 Ehrenb. in Abhandl. Acad. Berl. 1831, 33. Boucerosia russelicma, 

 Courbon ex Brongn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1860, vii. 900, and in 

 Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, Hi. 437 ; and Courbon in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 

 ser. xviii. 143, t. 7 ; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Internaz. 1892, 348. 



Nile Iiand. Red Sea : Dalilac Island, Ehrenberg ! Dessi Island, Courbon (e\ 

 Courbon). Nubia: near Kassala, Schweinfurlh, 180! Uaratab Mountain, ne;ir 

 ^xxdikm, Schweinfurth, ISl \ 0-Kurr, Schtceirifurth^ 467! Singat, Schiceinfurfh, 

 ser. iii. 39! Eritrea : valley of the Torrent I.ava, Penzig (ex Penzig). Abyssinia : 

 between Sero and Mequedel, Courbon (ex Prongniart), from Tajuia through the 

 whole country of the Adeile (Adal) as far as Et'at, Roth, 410! Somaliland : Milniil, 

 Biva, 803, 963, and near Marro Umberto, i2/m, 719, 1164 (ex Schumann); Kor- 

 bera, Waicott ! 



\2iV. glabra,^. E. Br. Corolla glabrous within and not ciliate, otherwise as in 

 the type. 



wrile Xiand. British East Africa : Witu, Thomas ! 



Probably Stapelia congestijlora, Delile in Rochet d'Hericourt, Second Voy. dans 

 le pays des Adels et le royaume de Choa, 345, should be referred to tliis si>ecic.s. It 

 is described as ''A clammy plant, with violaceous flowers collected in a ball." 

 According to Rochet d'Hericourt it is found in several localities in the desert of the 

 Adel (Adal) country. 



4. C. Edithae, X. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 219. Plant robust, 

 bushy, succulent, glabrous in all parts except the corolla. Stems 

 acutely 4- (rarely 5-) angled, 1 in. or more thick ; angles with hi oad 

 deltoid teeth having horizontal or more or less deflexed indurated 

 points. Umbels terminal, sessile, globose, about 2J in. in diam., 

 (;0-70-flowered ; pedicels 9 lin. long. Sepals 2^-3 Fin. long, linear- 

 subulate, attenuate to a fine point, strongly revolute at the njiical part. 

 Corolla about \ in. in expanse, glabrous and smooth oiit.'^ide, tubercu- 

 late-rugose within, with a tuft of long purple vibratile hairs at the apex 

 of each lobe, otherwise quite glabrous and not ciliate, dark purple- 

 brown; tube short, eampanulate, about U-lJ Hn- lo^g^ •' l'"- »ii 



