494 Lxxxv. ASCLEPIADE.E (brown). [Tavaresict. 



Corolla smooth (or minutely and sparsely scabrid-tuberculate) outside, 

 densely papillate within, pale yellowish, spotted inside and out with 

 purple red ; tube li- 3 in. long, 1-2 in. in diam. ; lobes |-J in. long, 

 spreading, deltoid, acute. Outer corona 7--9 lin. long, shortly tubular 

 at the base, divided into 10 filiform segments, ending in pendulous pear- 

 shaped orange-brown knobs, the other parts similar in colour to the 

 •corona of D. Barklyi ; inner coronal-lobes about f lin. long, linear- 

 attenuate, incumbent on the backs of the anthers and scarcely longer 

 than them, dorsally connected to the outer corona by short partitions, 

 dark purple-brown. Follicles not seen. Seeds 2-2J lin. long, IJ lin. 

 broad, ovate, plano-convex, with abroad thick border, glabrous, smooth, 

 light larown. — Welw. in Bol. e Ann. Cons. Ultramar. 1856, No. 24, 252 ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 697. Huernia Tavaresii, Welw. in Bol. 

 e Ann. Cons. Ultramar. 1856, No. 24, 252. Decabelnne elegans, Decne. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. 5 ser. xiii. 404, t. 2; Bot. Mag. t. 6115; Engl. & 

 Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 275, 276, fig. 88, C-D. D. yrandifluray K. 

 Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 276. Stapelia digitaliflora, 

 Pfersd. ex Decne. in Ann. Sc, Nat. 5 ser. xiii. 405. 



laO'weT Guinea. Angola : Loanda ; near Loanda, near Alto das Cruzes and 

 Forte de Penedo, Welwitsch, ^2^2 \ Amhrxz, Monteiro / and culHvated specimens ! 



2. T. Barklyi, X. E. Br. Glabrous in all parts. Stems 3-4 in. high, 

 8-1) lin. thick', fleshy, leafless, cylindrical, 10-12-angled ; angles with 

 very short closely set tubercles, each terminated by 'd white bristles ; 

 central bristle horizontal, two lateral rather shorter, deflexed and 

 diverging from each other at nearly a right angle. Cymes sessile, few- 

 flowered ; pedicels 4-6 lin. long. Sepals 3-3J lin. long, lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Corolla smooth, pale greenish or greenish-white, spotted 

 with purple-red outside ; inside densely papillate, pale yellowish, covered 

 with small purple-red spots, except at the base, which is entirely purple- 

 red ; tube l|-2 in. long, about 1 in. in diam. a,t the mouth ; lobes ^-| in. 

 long, deltoid, acuminate, spreading. Outer corona 5 lin. long, shortly 

 tubular at the base, divided into 10 filiform segments terminating in 

 pt-iidulous globose knobs, the filiform parts and knobs purple-brown, 

 the lower part white, with the margins, some stripes alternating with 

 each pair of filaments and a few linear spots or stripes all dark purple- 

 brown ; inner coronal-lobes f lin. long, linear, dorsally connected by 

 short partitions to the outer corona, incumbent on the backs of the 

 anthers, which they slightly exceed, purple-brown. — Decabelone Barklyi, 

 Dyer in Bot. Mag. t. 6203; and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 249-250, t. 5, 

 fig. 4 ; N. E. Br. in Hook. Ic. PI. xx. sub t. 1905, p. 3 ; K. Schum. in 

 Engl, k Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 275 ; Card. Chron. 1900. xxvii. 

 210, fig. 67. 



laovrer Gninea. German South-west Africa : Hereroland ; Gobabis, Schinz, 

 150! 



Also in South Africa. 



In the dried state, the flowers of this species can only be distinguished from 

 those of T. angolensis, Welw., by the knob at the ends of the outer coronal- 

 segments being globose instead of pear- shaped. 



