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nata, in apice pariim triloba, lobo medio laterales su- 

 perante vel solo fere evoluto, raargiiiibus lateralibus 

 inter sese connatae et hoc modo quasi annulum t'or- 

 mantes. Coronae interioris squamae caudatae, totales 

 5 — 5 "5 mm longae, calcari 1-5 mm longo, parte media asymme- 

 trice lanceolata, 1-3 mm lata, sensim producta in caudiculam 

 2 mm longam, involutam. Folliculi divergentes, ob- 

 verse oblongo-clavati, teretes, sensim incurvati, 5 — 6cm 

 longi, 1cm diametro, extus pilis brevibus strictiusculis 

 densissimis cinerascentes, inermes, vel sparsira acu- 

 leati, aculeis-imraaturis tantum visis carnulosis, tenuibus, puberulis, 

 1 — 2*5 mm longis. 



Sokotra. Verbreitet über die steinigen Abhänge der gegen 

 Gubbet Shoab abdachenden Kalkberge und die angrenzenden Teile 

 des Küstengebietes (Paulay) 8. — 12./I. 1899; in den Umgebungen 

 vonAkarhi (Simony) l./II. 1899, auf Lichtungen der Palmenhaine 

 von Sokk (Paulay) 16.— 28./II. 1899, und in der Ebene von Tama- 

 rida (5./1I. 1899). 



Coralluma Hosengrenii Vierhapper. 

 Sectio Boucerosia. 



Eami tetraquetri, glabri, angulis obtusis, sinuato-lobatis. 

 Flores 1 — 2 singuli, in summis lobis in axibus foliorum rai- 

 nutissimorum squamaeformium depresso-triangularium, e lobi apice 

 naseentium, 0*7 mm longorum Orientes, pedicellis validis. carnosis, 

 4 mm longis, 2*5 mm diametro, stipitati. Calycis segmenta lanceolata, 

 acutiuscula, 2-5 mm longa, basil'ömm lata, glabra, sinubus inter 

 segmenta calycina glandulis singulis minutis instructis. Corollae 

 glabrae, obscure cinnabarinae, campanulato-rotatae tubus 7 — 8 mm 

 altus, in parte basali extus intusque laevis, superne intus transverse 

 plurisulcatus et minutissime transverse tlavolineatus , in apice 

 ca. 17 mm diametro, lobi late triangulari-lanceolati, acuminati, re- 

 curvati, marginibus reflexis, supra tuberculato-sulcati, 8 — 10 mm 

 longi, basi 10 mm lati, sinubus amplis obtusiusculis discreti. Co- 

 ronae exterioris, gynostegio affixae. 2 mm altae, 3 mm dia- 

 metro, usque ad basin fere 5 partitae partes oblongo- 

 obovatae, 15 mm latae, triloba e, loborum medio triangu- 

 lari-lanceolato, lobo coronae interioris lineari aequi- 

 longo incumbenti, adpresso, 0'8mm longo, lobis late- 

 ralibus lanceolatis, erectis, recurvatis, 0*9 mm longis, 

 in apice fasciculatim deflexo-puberulis. Pollinis massae 

 paene globosae, 0*4 mm diametro, translatore oblongo- elliptico. 

 brunneo. 0*2 mm longo. 



Sokötra. Am Fuße des Derafonte - Gebirges (Paulay), 

 18./II. 1899. 



