4D6 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [Huemia. 



coronal-lobes J-f lin. long, ascending, linear, obtuse, with a narrow 

 transverse dorsal ridge at their base. — Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 

 698. 



IiOixrer Guinea. Angola: Pungo Aiulongo; in clefts of rocks on the movintain 

 sl()l)es of the PrsesitUum near Cabondo, Catete, &c., Welwitsch, 4264 ! 



2 H. aspera, N. E. Br. in Gard. Chrmi. 1887, ii. 364. Stems 

 procumbent and ascending, ;^>-9 in. long, J in. tliick, very obtusely 5-()- 

 angled, glabrous ; angles with small rigid spreading teeth (rudimentary 

 leaves) J lin. long, above each of which is a curved transverse impressed 

 line connecting the grooves between the angles. Cymes sessile near the 

 base of the young shoots, 3-5- (or more- ?) flowered; pedicels \-\ in, 

 long, glabrous. Sepals \ in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, very spreading, 

 glabrous. Corolla campanulate, about | in. long, j-1 in. in diam., 

 outside dull purple, very rough with numerous small pointed papillae : 

 inside uniformly blackish-purple, densely covered with pointed papillae ; 

 lobes deltoid, acuminate. Outer coronal-lobes about J lin. long and 

 broad, subtruncate, slightly emarginate, intense blackish-crimson ; 

 inner coronal-lobes |-§ lin. long, lanceolate-subulate or linear, acute or 

 obtuse, yellowish, their tips slightly exceeding the anthers and very 

 slightly upturned, not produced into subulate points. — Bot. Mag. t. 

 7000 ; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 280. 



IMCozaxnb. Blst. Probably Zanzibar or German East Africa, precise locality 

 unknown. Kirk ! 



o. H. oculata, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6658. Stems 2-3 J in. 

 high, about 5-6 lin. thick (without the teeth), 5-angled, glabrous ; angles 

 with stout fleshy spine-like teeth 2— 4J lin. long. Cymes few-flowered, 

 sessile near the base of the young stems ; pedicels 2-3 lin. long, 

 glabrous. Sepals 3-4 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, glabrous. Corolla 

 about 10 lin. in diam., minutely papillate-asperate inside and out^'de, 

 otherwise glabrous and not ciliate, green, more or less tinged with pur- 

 plish outside, blackish-purple on the lobes and upper part of the tube 

 within, the base of the tube white ; tube about \ in. long, broadly 

 campanulate ; lobes 2 J lin. long, deltoid, acuminate, spreading. Outer 

 coronal-lobes about J lin. long and broad, subquadrate, truncate or 

 slightly emarginate (not rounded as represented in the plate), glabrous; 

 inner coronal-lobes | lin. long, elongate-deltoid, with a dorsal transver^e 

 ridge at their base, minutely puberulous, connivent, but without erect 

 tips. — K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 280- 



ILo-wer Guinea. German South-west Africa : Damaraland, Een ! Wind- 

 hoek, Dinter ! 



4. H. Penzigii, N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1892, xi. 719. Stems 

 erect, 2-3 in. high, 6-H lin. thick, excluding the teeth, 5-angled, 

 glabrous; angles with stout conical straight spreading teeth 4-5 lin. 

 long, ending in fine subulate points. Flowers 1-5 in a fascicle at the 

 base of the young stems, developing successively ; pedicels \ in. long, 

 glabrous. Sepals 4-6 lin. long, lanceolate-subulate, spreading, glabrous. 



