698 Lxxxiii. ASCLEPiADE^. [Tavai-esici 



t. 2 (1871) ; Bot. Mag. t. 6115 (1874). Stapelia (Heicrnia) Welw. 

 in Proceed. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 328 (7 Nov. 1854). 



Loan DA. — Stem low, creeping horizontally, widely c^spitose, 2 to 

 4 in. high ; branches ascending or nearly erect, hexagonal : the angles 

 sharp, tuberculate ; the tubercles in dense rows, pyramidal at the 

 base, tricuspidate ; the 3 teeth or prickles horizontally spreading and 

 callous ; peduncles lateral, 1- to 2-flowered, corolla with a long tube 

 and campanulate mouth ; fruit cylindrical-subulate, 4 to o| in. long. 

 In barren gravelly places above the city, very rare, fr. end of Oct. 1853 ; 

 in poor pastures near Alto das Cruzes and Forte de Penedo, Dec. 1857 ; 

 in gravelly maritime places near Loanda, fl. Dec. 1853 and Feb. 1854. 

 No. 4262. Follicles geminate. Loanda, May. Coll. Carp. 734. 



29. HUERNIA Pv. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 784. 



Heurnia Spreng. Anleit. ii. 1. p. 488 (1817) ; K. Schum. iu 

 Eng. Nat. Pflanzenfam. iv. 2, p. 280, fig. 84 F. (1895). 



There appears to be no doubt that Brown was mistaken as to the 

 spelling of the surname of the missionary, Justin Heurnius : see 

 Hermann in Hort. Lugd.-Bat. Cat. p. 54 (1687) and L. Diss. PI. Rar. 

 Afr. p. 3 (Dec. 1760). 



1. H. similis N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, p. 265. 



Heurnia sp., Welw. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. p. 154 (Feb. 1859). 



PUNGO Andongo. — A low, succulent, csespitose, persistent herb ; 

 stems decumbent or ascending, sparingly branched, as well as the 

 spreading branches herbaceous-green, tetragonal ; the angles blunt, 

 remotely denticulate ; the teeth (leaves ?) short, conical, from a broad 

 base abruptly subulate, quite patent ; branches and branchlets brittle, 

 subglaucous, mostly sub-horizontally spreading, together with the 

 stems obliquely inclined, csespitosely interwoven ; flowers small, 

 scentless, usually solitary or 2 to 3 together from the same axil ; 

 peduncles very short, springing from the axils of the teeth on the stem ; 

 pedicels slender, 2 to 4, unequal in length, fleshy, reddish, 1 to A in. 

 long, moderately thickened upwards towards the calyx ; calyx very 

 deeply 5-cleft, almost 5-sepalous, sordidly lurid-purplish ; the segments 

 from a broad base ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled ; corolla shortly 

 campanulate, unequally 10-cleft, rather fleshy, lurid-purple outside, 

 atropurpureous and papillose inside, whitish-rosy at the bottom around 

 the included genitalia ; the lobes of the sub-rotate limb alternately 

 much shorter ; the 5 larger lobes triangular-pointed ; the 5 smaller 

 ones very short, dentiform, obtuse ; all quite patent at the time of 

 the expanded flower ; staminal corona double, the outer whorl con- 

 sisting of 5 fleshy deep saffron-yellow lanceolate obtuse horn-shaped 

 scales, the inner whorl of 5 sub-cucullate simple much shorter 

 scales, all undivided ; stigma green, somewhat pentagonal, flattened- 

 muticous. On the mountain slopes of the prEesidium, growing in 

 clefts of the more elevated rocks, not uncommon, near Cabondo, 

 Catete, etc. ; fl. Oct. and Dec. 1856, Jan. to April 1857. Xo. 4264. 



30. STAPELIA L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 784. 



The following No. is, perhaps, a new species of this genus, 

 belonging to the section Tromotriche ; it is in fruit but without 

 flowers : — 



MossAMEDES. — A succulent, leafless, perennial herb, 4 to 6 in. high. 



