EditJicolea.'] lxxxv. AscLEriADE.t: (hrown). 49,^ 



coronal-lobes f-1 lin. long, erect, fleshy, gibbous at the base, broadly 

 linear at the middle, triangularly dilated at the tips, which are inflexed 

 over the anthers, with contiguous margins and minutely echinulate on 

 the back, keeled on the inner face, glabrous. Pollen -masses nearly \ 

 lin. long. Pollen-carrier narrow, rather more than lialf as long as the 

 pollen-masses. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. Nachtr. 

 zum ii.-iv. 288, and in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 43. 



Wile Iiand. Somaliland : Hcnwcinii Valley, about 3000 ft,. Miss Edith Cole I 

 Mrs. Lort-PhilUps ! in rocky places by the Kiva Dausr, Riva, 1100, and without 

 precise locality, Rohecchi-Bricchelti, 318 (ex Schumaym). 



This is one of the handsomest and most distinct of all the Stapelioid groiii). 

 The dimensions of the corolla are taken from the dried flower, and are probably 

 exceeded when alive. 



5o. TAVARESIA, Welw. in Bol. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. 1854 



No. 7, 79. 



Calyx 5-partite. Corolla large, tubular-funnel-shaped, 0-lobed ; lobes 

 valvate in bud, the sinuses between them forming acute projecting 

 angles. Corona double, arising from the staminal-column ; outer corona 

 shortly tubular at the base, then divided into 10 long filiform segments, 

 each terminated by a knob, and usually with a minute tooth between 

 the pair of segments that alternate with the anthers ; inner corona of .J 

 narrow lobes, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and dorsally con- 

 nected with the basal part of the outer corona by short partitions. ♦Stami- 

 nal-column arising from the base of the corolla ; anthers ovate-oblong, 

 without appendages, incumbent on the top of the style. Pollen-masses 

 solitary in each anther-cell, horizontal, rather large, compressed, pellucid 

 margined on one side, attached in pairs by short caudicles to subulate 

 lateral processes from the pollen-carriers. Style not exceeding the 

 anthers, flat and pentagonal at the apex. Follicles not seen. Seeds 

 rather small, crowned with a tuft of hairs. — Succulent leafless perennials, 

 branching at the base ; stems G-12-angled; angles tuberculate-toothed, 

 each tubercle furnished with three bristles. Flowers large and showy, 

 in sessile cymes at the base of the young stems. — Decabelone, Decne. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 ser. xiii. 404 ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 784. 



Species 2, one endemic, the other also in South Africa. The flowers vary very 

 much in size in both species, even on the same plant under different conditions. 

 Stems 6-8-angled; lateral bristles of the tubercles 



upcurved . . . . . . . \. T. atu/ultnsis. 



Stems 10-12-angled ; lateral bristles of the tubercles 



deflexed 2. T. Barklyi. 



1. T. angolensis, Welw. in Bol. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. 1S.'»4, 

 yo. 7, 70. Glabrous in all parts. Stems 2^-5 in. high, fleshy, leafless, 

 G- (rarely 8-) angled ; angles with conical tubercles H-^ Hn. long, tt'i- 

 minated by three whitish bristles; central bristle horizontiil, two lateral 

 much shorter and curved upwards. Cymes sessile, few- flowered ; 

 pedicels I in. long. Sepals 3^-4 lin. long, lanceolate, acuminate. 



