Caralluma.] lxxxv. ASCLEPiADEiE (brown). 485 



irile Xiand. FA-itvesi, cultivafed specimens ! Abyssinia: Adow &, Petit ! 



Chiefly described from the living plant, introduced into cultivation by Dani- 

 uifinn & Co. of Naples. I originally described the colour of the corolla as olivaceous, 

 but the colour had faded in transit. See a note under C. Ango, N. E. Hr. 



12. C. atrosanguinea, N. E, Br. Stems 2-8 in. long, 5-0 lin. 

 thick, 4-angIed, Cf^spitose, branching and decumbent at the base, grey- 

 ish-green, marbled with brownish-purple, glabrous ; angles obtuse, 

 toothed ; teeth 1-J-o lin. long, stout, conical, tipped with a subulate 

 acute quickly withering leaf-rudiment, having 2 minute teeth at its 

 base. Flowers in fascicles of 2-3 at about the middle of the younger 

 stems, developing successively; bracts lJ-2 lin. long, subulate ; pedicels 

 2J-3 lin. long, stout, glabrous. Sepals 4^ lin. long, 1 lin. broad, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, spreading. Corolla about 1| in. in diam., outside 

 quite glabrous, greyish-green, mottled with purplish ; inside rich deep 

 blackish-crimson, without spots or markings; tube Z\ lin. long, about 

 7 lin. in diam. outside, campanulate ; lobes §-| in. long, \ in. broad, 

 ovate, very acute, tipped with a short mucro, very spreading, slightly 

 recurved along the margins, excavated at the mouth of the tube oppo- 

 site the lobes of the outer corona, very slightly rugulose and very 

 minutely papillate on the inner face. Outer coronal-lobes arising \ lin. 

 above the base of the staminal-column, horizontally spreading, firm, 

 rather fleshy, about 1 lin. long and broad, deltoid-ovate, longitudinally 

 folded, forming a channel in which nectar is secreted, bifid at the obtuse 

 apex, dull orange-yellow, reddish in the channel ; inner coronal-lobes 5 

 lin. long, linear-terete, obtuse, much exceeding and incumbent on the 

 anthers at the base, then divergent, ochreous at the base passing into 

 pale sienna above, whitish at the tips. — Stapelia atrosanguinea^ N. E. 

 Br. in Gard. Chron. 1901, xxx. 425. 



nxozamb. Dist. Bechuanaland : northern Kalahari Desert, 3000 ft., Lugard, 

 263 ! and cultivated specimens ! 



Described from a living plant sent to Kew by Captain Lugard in February 1899. 

 When out of flower the plant much resembles Huerniopsis decipiens, N. E. Br. 



I originally placed this remarkable plant in the genus Stapelia, but after iny 

 present revision of the genera of this group, I believe it to be better placed in 

 Caralluma, on account of its habit, very distinct corolla-tube, and peculiar channelled 

 outer coronal-lobes. 



13. C. caudata, ^V". E. Br. Stems (only one piece seen, 3 in. long, 

 \ in. thick, excluding the teeth), erect, glabrous, 4-angle(l ; angles 

 rounded, toothed ; teeth about 5 lin. long, rather distant, straight, 

 spine-like. Flowers several, in sessile umbel-like fascicles near the 

 base of the young stems; bracts very small, about 1 lin. long, acute; 

 pedicels J in. long, 1 lin. thick, glabrous, erect. Sepals 3 lin. long, 3-5J 

 lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla in bud 1 \ in. long, 

 pentagonal, tapering into a long acuminate slightly twisted point ; very 

 deeply 5-lobed when expanded, yellow, mottled with purple ; united 

 part 2^-3 lin. long, somewhat saucer-shaped, minutely papillate within ; 

 lobes 1 |-1-J.in. long, 3i lin. broad at the ovate base, thence gradually 



