Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Flowers sweetly-scented, dioecious, in nearly sessile, many-flowered cymes 
in the axils of the leaves ; inflorescence dense, up to twenty floweis in the 
cyme, ending in a simple tendril, much longer than the leaf ; bracts minute, 
reddish. <$ Flowers : calyx funnel-shaped, tapering at base, slightly 
irregular, greenish-yellow with cream-coloured limb, Az 1 in. long, limb 
5-cleft, segments ovate, spreading with reflexed tips, differently broad, 
l|-3 lin., three of them fringed at the margin ; petals cream-coloured, 
inserted low down in the calyx-tube, spathulate, much acuminate, fringed 
at the tip, longer than calyx-tube ; corona composed of a fringe of short 
hairs, inserted at same height with petals ; discus of 5 small, lingulate 
squamae, inserted in the calyx-tube beneath the petals and alternate with 
them ; stamens 5, included, filaments connate into a tube for more than 
half their length, anthers oblong, slender, connate at their tips ; rudimentary 
ovary concealed in the tube of the filaments. $ Flowers unknown. 
The enormous tuber of the above-described new species of Adenia 
was found by Dr. J. M. Fehrson at Baviaanspoort near Pretoria in 
September, 1913, and presented to the Herbarium of the Transvaal Museum. 
The tuber grows partially above the ground between the rocks and looks 
with its grey, leathery skin like a piece of rock itself. It is very heavy, 
full of sap, and green beneath the skin. It was placed in a very sunny 
spot on the window-sill in the Herbarium and soon it started to grow, 
making long shoots and flowering for the first time in February, 1914. It 
never got a drop of water, and again in October of the same year it made 
long shoots and flowered profusely, as can be seen by the photo taken at 
that time. The flowers are very sweetly-scented, and hundreds being open 
at the same time the plant makes a fine show, but it only lasts for a few 
days. 
The Kaffirs know that the tuber contains much sap for in case of thirst 
and absence of water they cut a piece out of the tuber and suck the sap. 
The type is in the Herbarium of the Transvaal Museum. 
