Caralluma.] XCT. asclepiade^. (J. D. Hooker.) 77 



4-aiigled, 'branohes slender and terete above, corolla-tube short funnel-shaped, 

 lobes fringed with long hairs. 



SoDTH Deccan Mts. J Nllgherries, Pulneys, &c., Wiffhi, &e. Ooohin, Johnstene. 

 Ceylon ; between Kandy and Badulla. 



Habit of C. adscendens, but differing according to Wight's plate in the larger 

 flowers with deeply fringed petals. The Ceylon plant, according to a drawing from 

 Thwaites, is smaller with much smaller flowers borne on the 4-angled stems, not on 

 slender terete branches as in the Peninsular one ; it is possibly C, fmhriata. 



1. C. fixnbriata, Wall. PI. As. Mar. i. 7, t. 8 ; stems much diflfiisely 

 branched 4-angled to the ends of the branches, corolla rotate, segment* 

 copiously fimbriate. Wight Contrih. 34 ; Bah. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 155. 



Deccan Peninsui.a ; from the Concan southwards, in arid rocky places. — Distkib. 

 Ava. 



Wight refers the Peninsular to the Ava plant, remarking that the flowers of the 

 former are much larger (they are 1 in. diam. in Wallich's drawing), but finds no 

 other difference. In both the arms of the coronal lobes are long subulate and hooked. 

 — Amongst Wight's drawings is one of a plant with the habit of fimbriata, that is, 

 bearing the flowers on, the curved 4-angled ends of the branches, but with short ovate 

 ciliate corolla-lobes, green, banded with purple, ending in fimbriate linear tips. If 

 this is Wight's ^ntinosfe, it differs much from Wallich's. 



53. BOVCEROSXA, Wight ^ Am. 



Fleshy leafless herbs, with thick 4-angled stems, angles toothed. Flowers 

 terminal, rather large, solitary or umbelled, more or less purple. Sepals narrow. 

 Corolla campanulate or rotate ; lobes 5, short, broad, valvate. Corona annular, 

 adnate to the column, 5-lobed ; lobes 2-fid, subulate, erect or spreading with a 

 linear fleshy process on the inner face at the sinus inflexed over the anther. 

 Colvmm minute, short ; anther-tips inappendiculate ; pollen-masses one in each 

 cell, sessile, erect, suborbicular, compressed. Stigma low, conical, 5-angled, tip 

 truncate depressed. Follicles slender, straight, terete, smooth. Seeds flat, 

 winged, comose. — Disteib. Species 12 ; Spain, North Africa, Arabia, Western 

 India. 



Por the definition of the species of this genus (as of Caralluma) I have had to 

 depend mainly upon published and unpublished drawings and definitions. 



1. B. umbellata, Wight SrAm. Contrib. 34 ; stem very stout, flowers in 

 dense umbels, corolla glabrous. Wight Ic. t. 495 ; Wall. Cat. 8147 ; Dene, in 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 648. Stapelia umbellata, Boxb. Cor. PI. iii. t. 241. S. Callar- 

 mvdia. Ham. 



Deccan Peninsula ; common in arid localities. Ceylon ; rocks near Kornegalle, 

 Thvmites. 



Stem erect or ascending, simple or sparingly branched, 1-2 ft. high, 1-2 in. across 

 the obtuse thick crenate angles. Umbels 2-4 in. diam., globose, dense-fld. Corolla 

 1-lj- in. diam., streaked closely concentrically with purple. Follicles 4-7 in. long by 

 J in. diam. Seeds ^ in. long, oblong. 



f Vak. campanulata ; angles of stem thin, corolla smaller without the purple 

 streaks more tubular. B. campanulata, Wight Ic. t. 1287. — Wight distinguishes this 

 as above, but Thwaites unites it with mnbellata, and in the Herbarium they are in- 

 distinguishable, except by the smaller flower and narrower lobes of the corona ; its 

 native locality is unknown. 



2. B. crenulata, Wight ^ Am. Contrib. 34 ; stems very stout, flowers 

 in dense umbels, corolla with long scattered hairs over the whole inner surface. 



