484 Lxxxv. ASCLEFiADE^ (brown). [C ccralluma . 



glabrous on both sides; lobes spreading (or ascending?), 2 lin. long, 

 1 lin. broad at the base, elongate-deltoid, acute, dark purple, glabrous, 

 not ciliate on the reflexed margins. Outer corona of 10 linear-subulate 

 teeth, ^-J lin. long, ascending, each pair divergent-curved at the tips ; 

 inner coronal-lobes |-| lin. long, subulate, incumbent on the backs of 

 the anthers and a little longer than them ; anthers oblong, obtuse, im- 

 appendaged, incumbent on the truncate apex of the style. 



Ifflle Zianda Nubia, Benf ! 



10. C.^Y2ici\vgeSy K.Schum. inEngl. Pfl, Ost-Afr. (".328. Stems 

 about 12-15 in. high, o-4 lin. thick in the lower part, gradually taper- 

 ing and becoming slender in the upper part, 4-angled, minutely and 

 distantly toothed (probably the teeth bear subulate deciduous leaves) ; 

 terminal part slender, bearing as many as 15 distant flowers. Pedicels 

 slender, 3|-4 lin. long. Corolla about 4|^ lin. long, with an inflated 

 tube. Outer coronal-lobes hardly conspicuous, arising considerably above 

 the base of the staminal-column ; inner coronal-lobes spathulate.— K. 

 Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 278. 



XVIozamb. Blst. British East Africa : Ukamba ; Kitui, Hildelrandt, 2700. 



Only known to me from Dr. Schumann's description, where the stems are said to 

 be 2|-2f in. long, the apex running out into a peduncle about a foot long, but this is 

 <^vidently intended to describe the gradual tapering^ of the stems that takes place in 

 several species. The thickness of the stems is doubtle^ss taken from the dried 

 specimens and is probably much exceeded in the living state. 



11. C. Sprengeri, iV. ^\ Br. in Keio Bulletin, 1895, 263. Stems 

 up to 5 in. high, branched, 4-angled, about | in. square (including 

 the teeth), glabrous, green, mottled with purple on darker green ; angles 

 obtusely rounded, strongly toothed ; teeth 3-6 lin. long, ascending- 

 spreading, conical, tapering to a fine point. Flowers in fascicles of 5-6 

 between the angles, near the apex of the branches ; pedicels \ in. long, 

 stout, glabrous. Sepals about J in. long, attenuate-deltoid, acuminate, 

 glabrous. Corolla rotate about J in. in diam., purple, glabrous on the 

 back, minutely and densely pubescent on the inner face ; disk with a 

 slightly raised rim around the mouth of the very shallow depression in 

 which the corona is contained and contiguous to the latter ; lobes 4-5 

 lin. long, 2^-2| lin. broad at the base, ovate, acuminate, flat. Outer 

 corona arising from the | lin. long staminal-column and as long as it, 

 annular, truncate and rather thick and fleshy at the rim, reddish ; 

 inner coronal-lobes oblong, obtuse or denticulate at the apex, dorsally 

 attached at the base to the outer corona, ascending above the level 

 of the latter, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and equalling or 

 slightly longer than them, reddish. Anthers subquadrate, not appen- 

 daged, incumbent on the sloping sides of the truncate style. — Haeruia 

 Sprenyeri, Schweinf. ex Dammann, Cat. 1893, 46; Weiner 111. Gartenzeit. 

 1893, 142, fig. 30; K. Schum. Monatsschr. fiir Kakteenkunde, iii. 74, 

 104; Gartenfl. 1897, 274, fig. 35. 



