490 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (buown). [Triohocaulon. 



of it is, that dried slices of the stem were imported into Am-erica as a remedy 

 for piles ; some of the slices (which have flowers attached to them) were presented 

 to Kew by Mr. E. M. Holmes of the Pharmaceutical Society, and from them I 

 have made the above description. 



2. T« pedicellatiim, Schinz in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Bra7idenh. 

 XXX. 2(10. Stems dwarf, glabrous, cylindric, as thick as the thumb, 

 many-angled ; angles tubercled, each tubercle terminated by a bristle 

 1-lJ lin. long. Flower-fascicles 1-4-flowered ; pedicels 2-2J lin. long, 

 glabrous. Sepa.ls |-1 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 

 about 4-5 lin. in diam., rotate ; tube small, J lin. long ; lobes very 

 spreading, 2 lin. long, 1-1 J lin. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 

 papillate within, dark purple-brown. Outer coronal-lobes arising from 

 the middle of the -i- lin. long staminal-column and slightly overtopping 

 it, bifid, purple-brown, glabrous; teeth of the lobes \ lin. long; inner 

 coronal-lobes i lin. long, linear, obtuse, incumbent on the backs of the 

 anthers and longer than them, dorsally adnate to the lobes of the outer 

 corona, purple-brown, gla.brous. Anthers incumbent on the top of the 

 style, which is truncate, depressed and covered by the inner coronal- 

 lobes. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 275. 



ZsO'wer Guinea. German South-west Africa: west Hereroland ; probably 

 from the neighbourhood of Hope Mine, Stapff! 



I have only seen flowers and a small fr^igment of the stem about 1 in. long, 

 which 1 l)elieve to have been much larger than described. 



51. HOODIA, Sweet: Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 783. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube very small, enclosing the corona; 

 limb large, flat, concave, or cup-shaped, obsoletely or but slightly 

 5-lobed ; lobes abruptly terminated by a subulate point. Corona double, 

 arising from the staminal-column ; outer corona of 5 concave spreading 

 lobes, emarginate or bifid at the apex ; inner corona of 5 linear lobes 

 incumbent on the backs of the anthers, dorsally connected to the outer 

 corona by 5 short partitions. Staminal-column arising from near the 

 base of the small corolla-tube ; anthers incumbent on the top of the 

 style, subquadrate , not appendaged. Style not produced beyond the 

 anthers, truncate at the apex. Follicles elongate, divaricate, smooth. — 

 Stout succulent perennials, with cylindric, many-angled stems ; angles 

 spine-toothed. Flowers large and showy, in small clusters of 2-5 or 

 sometimes solitary, arising from the grooves between the angles of the 

 stem towards the top. — Dyer in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 248. Mono- 

 thylaceum^ G. Don, Gen, Syst. iv. 116. Scytanihus, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 

 605-606. 



Species 6, three of which are natives of South Africa. 

 Corolla 3^,-5 in. in diam., pilose with hairs 1-2 lin. 



long within . . . . . . . \, S. Currori. 



Corolla about 2i in. in diam., pilose with hairs 5-I lin. 



long within . . . . . . . 2. jBT. Lugardi. 



Corolla about 1^ in. in diam., pubescent with bail's 



^-j lin. long within . . , . . 3. if. parviflora. 



