482 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (browx). [Caralluma. 



diam. outside ; lobes about 2 J lin. long and the same in breadth at 

 the base, more or less spreading, deltoid-ovate, acute, slightly hooked 

 at the tips. Outer corona arising from the base of the staminal- 

 column, glabrous, cup-shaped, with 5 erect lobes J-f lin. long, 

 deeply bifid, their subulate segments contiguous at their base, then 

 divergent-arcuate; cupular part of. the corona reaching to the same 

 level as the top of the staminal-column ; inner coronal-lobes J lin. long, 

 linear, obtuse, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and not or scarcely 

 exceeding them, dorsally adnate to the outer corona, glabrous. — K. 

 Schum. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 42. 



Wile £<and. British SomaliLmd, Miss Edith Cole! 



Allied to C. rohusta, N. E. Br., and to the Arabian C. penicillata, N. E. Br., but 

 difPering from both in the corona. 



a. C. robusta, :V. E. Br. Stems tall, robust, 1-3 in. square, 

 acutely 4-angleil, glabrous and apparently glaucous ; angles toothed ; 

 teeth rather small, 1-2 lin. long, deltoid, horizontally spreading. 

 Umbels lateral, sessile or on very short (1-3 lin. long) lateral 

 shoots, scattered along the upper part of the stems, globose, 20-40- or 

 more- tlowered, f-l^ in. in diam. ; pedicels about 4 lin. long, glabrous. 

 Sepals 1-1 J lin. long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute. Corolla about 

 4 (-5?) lin. in diam., rotate; lobes 1^-2? lin. long, \-^.\ lin. broad, 

 ovate, acute, tuberculate within, with a tuft of long vibratile purple 

 hairs at the incurved apex, glabrous outside. Outer corona arising 

 about \ lin. above the base of the staminal-column and reaching to its 

 top, cup-shaped, subtruncate, forming 5 pouches alternating with the 

 anthers, sparsely covered with short spreading hairs all over, outside 

 and inside ; inner coronal-lobes mJnute, incumbent on the backs of the 

 anthers and shorter than them, dorsally adnate to the outer corona, 

 and appearing to be 5 minute inflexed teeth of the latter, glabrous. 



Wile Xiand. Er'.trea : Arrot Valley to the south of Aidereso, 4300 ft., Schwein- 

 furth c^ Riva, 1574 ! and near Acrin-, 6000 It., Schwemfarth Sf Riva, 1762 ! 



This is very closely allied to the Arabian C. penicillata, N. E. Br., of which I 

 hive not seen flowering specimens ; but according to the descripiion and figure of 

 Detiers it differs in having the pouches of the outer corona truncate ami liairy all 

 over, inside and out, whilst in C. penicillata they are (according to the figure) pro- 

 duced into a blunt tooth on each siile of the anther and inflexed inner coronal-lobe, 

 and only ciliate on the margin. In a sketcli made from the living pbint by Sclnvein- 

 furtli, the corolla is represented as about 5 lin. in diam., but in the dried state they 

 are only about 3 lin., and after boiling in water do not exceed 4 lin. in diam. 



6. C. somalica, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 2G4. Stem 

 apparently acutely 4-angled, glabrous ; angles slightly toothed. 

 Flowers very numerous, in a terminal gflobose umbel about 2 in. in 

 <liam. ; pedicels fi-S lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 1^-2 lin.. long, lanceo- 

 late-attenuate, with a few minute hairs on the back. Corolla G-7 lin. 

 in diam. ; tube short, campanulate, enclosing the corona; limb rotate, 

 o-lobed to half-way down ; lobes 2J lin. lonsr, 2 lin. broad, deltoid-ovate, 

 acute, quite glabrous outside, with a very minutely velvety surface 



