498 Lxxxv. ASCLEPiADE^ (brown). [Iluevnia. 



thick, exclusive of the 3-3J lin. long stout conical very acute teeth at 

 the angles. Flowers from the base of the young stems ; pedicels 3-4 

 lin. long, I lin. thick, glabrous. Sepals 3 lin. long, | lin. broad at the 

 base, subulate-acuminate, glabrous. Corolla 1-1 J in. in diam., smooth 

 and glabrous outside and within the tube, inside papillate on the 

 lobes and the limb just at their base, dull purple or port- wine 

 colour, the lobes and some mottling on the convex part of the limb 

 dull ochreous ; tube 3-|-4 lin. long, G lin. in diam., campanuiate ; limb 

 convex or recurving, with 5 distant deltoid very acute spreading lobes 

 3 lin. long, 2-2^ lin. broad, and 5 small teeth alternating with them. 

 Outer coronal-lobes | lin. long, 1 lin. broad, subquadrate, bifid to half- 

 way down, adpressed to the bottom of the corolla, dark blood-red, 

 glabrous; inner coronal-lobes 1 lin. long, subulate, exceeding the 

 anthers, ascending and connivent over the apex of the style, bright 

 yellow, margined with dull purple in their upper part, glabrous. 



IS'ile Xiand. Somaliland : on dry, flat, stony ground, cultivated specimen, 

 3Irs. Lurt- Phillips ! 



Described from a living plant sent to the Cambridge Bot mic Garden by Mrs. 

 Lort-Phill'])s. The bright yellow inner cor(mal-lobes, looking like 5 points of light 

 within the dark corolla-tube, form a very disthictive feature in this species. 



Imjjerfectly kiioivn sj^fecies. 



7. H. xnacrocarpa, X. E. Br. Stems about the length of a 

 finger, fieshy, glaucous, subquadrangular ; angles coarsely toothed ; 

 teeth fleshy, acute, recurved, spinescent at the apex. Peduncle simple, 

 arising from the sinus at the base of the branches and about equalling 

 them, erect, 1-flowered. Flowers . . . Follicles in pairs, 2-5 in. long, 

 approximate, erect, subparallel, narrow, compressed, acute or hooked at 

 the apex, marked with interrupted purple lines. Seeds ovate, glabrous, 

 marginate, terminated by a setose pappus. — Stapelia Tnacroccuya^ A. 

 Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 50; Walp. Ann. iii. 70. 



M'iie Xiatid. Abyssinia : in the province of Shireh, Quartin Dillon. 



This pliUit has been considered by Schweinfnrth & Schumann to be the same as 

 H. Penzigii^ N. E. Br., nnd by Taubert the same as H. concinna, N. E. Br., but as 

 tlie flowers of Stapelia macrocarpa, A. Rich., are undescribed, the stems and 

 loUicies of several species are very much alike in the dried state, and the species are 

 often very local in their distribution, as well as for reasons stated below, it appears 

 better to consider them distinct species. 



In A. Richard's herbarium, now in the possession of M. Drake del Castillo, I am 

 informed that there is no specimen now extant bearina: the name of S. macrocarpa, 

 A. Rich. There is, however, a specimen consisting of one branch about 3 in. long 

 and ^ in. in diam. (including the teeth), and a detached fruiting peduncle with two 

 follicles, which are5g^ in. long; this specimen fairly agrees with Richard's description 

 of iS". macrocarpa, and was collected in Shireh province, at Debra Sina, in Abyssinia, 

 by Quartin Dillon & Petit, so that it may be the type. In the Paris Herbarium 

 there are specimens named S. macrocarpa, A. Rich., whicli were collected in the 

 province of Samen, Abyssinia, at tiie following localities : Sabra, 5000 ft., Schimjier, 

 945, and Shoata, 6000-7000 ft., Schimper,94:Q. Of all these 1 have only seen 

 tracings, and am informed that Dillon & Petit's and Schiraper's specimens appear to 



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