Caralluma] lxxxiii. asclepiade^e. 697 



26. CARALLUMA R. Br. ; Benth. &Hook, f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 782. 

 Boucerosia Wight & Arn. ; Benth. <fc Hook, f., I.e. Quaqua 



N.E. Br. inGard. Chron. 1879. ii. p. 8,c. fig. 1, p. 9 (5 July 1879). 



1. C. huillensis Hiern, sp. n. 



A fleshy, broadly csespitose, leafless herb, softly but obsoletely 

 pubescent, with the habit of Boucerosia umhellata Wight & Arn. 

 (Wight, Ic. t. 495) ; stem prostrate, rooting, branched from the 

 base, branches sub-tetragonal, ascending, 2 to 3 in. long, thick, 

 succulent, club-shaped, the angles on the upper part armed with 

 broad thick teeth which terminate in cartilaginous rather blunt 

 straight or slightly decurved tips ; flowers clustered at and near 

 the apex of branches, sub-umbellate, 6 to 10 together ; peduncles 

 rather thick, succulent, glabrous, longitudinally libbed, f to 1 in. 

 long, bracteate at the base ; bracts lanceolate-subulate, glabrous, 

 about \ in. long; calyx 5-partite, with lanceolate-subulate 

 glabrous segments rather more than i inch long ; corolla dusky 

 red, slightly herbaceous, deeply 5-Iobed, If to 2 in. long ; the 

 lobes lanceolate-linear, (in their dry state) 1\ to 1|- in. long, 3- to 

 5-nerved, thinly or obsoletely pubescent on the back, nearly 

 glabrous and rugulose on the front, somewhat spreading ; the 

 tube about i in. long, sub-hemispherical ; staminal corona in two 

 whorls, glabrous, the outer one having 5 pallid short very obtuse 

 excise revolute lobes, the inner one of 5 longer dusky stout- 

 subulate suberect ligules about ^ in. long. 



Hdilla.— In fl. Dec. 1859. No. 4366. 



This is allied to C. lutea N. E. Br,, a plant of extra-tropical South 

 Africa, and crossing into the tropics in the Transvaal ; it is, however, 

 distinguished from the latter by the characters of the corona, the 

 colour of the flower, etc. 



27. HOODIA Sweet ; Benth. & Hook, f . Gen. PI. ii. p. 783. 

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

 MossAMEDES. — A fleshy, caotus-like shrub ; stems numerous, csespi- 



tose, mostly strictly erect, many-angled, whitish-chestnut or rosy in 

 colour, 2 to 5 ft. high, flowering in an umbellate manner at the apex ; 

 angles spiny ; spines chestnut-rosy ; flowers chestnut-dusky in colour, 

 scentless, campanulate-rotate ; follicles semi-cylindrical-conical, flat on 

 the face, approximated. In elevated rocks composed of mica-schist, 

 about 1500 ft. alt., near Pomangala, and in dry places in front of 

 Quitibe de Baixo, fl. Oct. 1859 : also at Cavalheiros, fl. 23 Aug. 1859. 

 No. 4265. Stem like a Cereus in shape, 13- to 15-angled, ciBspitose, 

 4 to 7 ft. high. In rocky places above Pomangala ; fr. Oct. 1859. 

 Eaten and considered delicious by the negroes. Coll. Oaep. 35. 



According to a ms. note of Welwitsch, this plant occurs also in 

 Huilla. 



28. TAVARESIA Welw. in Bol. Cons. Ultramar. Lisb. 1854, 

 ISTo. 7, p. 79, n. 4 (August 1854). 



Beoabelone Decaisne (1871); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 784. 



1. T. angolensis Welw., I.e. 



Decahelone elegans Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, xiii. p. 404, 



